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I don't have an eyemart here that I know of. But I'll check out other glasses shops (assuming that's what eyemart is). Thanks for the tip. I never even thought about glasses
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Yeah, any eyeglasses shop should work methinks. Glad I could help. :)
 
Figboy79 said:
People really have smartphones on the brain, it seems.

It didn't dawn on me until the other day, listening to my co-workers jabber on about their various smartphone games that some people just really, really like those styles of games. I can't fault them for it, any more than I can fault my love for an Uncharted or a God of War.

I work at Capcom/Beeline Interactive. We make the Smurf's Village game, among others, but Smurf's is our bread and butter. I deal with Android and iOS devices every day at work.

I've owned my smartphone for almost a year now, and when I first got it, I was all over downloading apps like crazy. Playing all sorts of free and cheap games, but after a few weeks, it wore off, and none of those games were doing it for me. Cute distractions isn't what appeals to me as a gamer. Yes, I have Angry Birds on my phone. I've played it a total of about 30 minutes. It's certainly fun, but sometimes a guy just wants something with a little more, er, meat on it's bones.

The Vita is scratching an itch I've had since I first saw the original Game Boy when it released and I was 10 years old. For 22 years I've been dying for a portable device that truly captured what it was like playing the big boxes I had hooked up to my TV. There was always some kind of limitation to what a portable device could do. Whether it was horsepower or input options.

The Vita doesn't need an "Android" OS hook, or a bunch of apps. It's hook is that it has a 5" OLED screen. It has a touchscreen and rear touch pad. It has dual analog sticks. And the biggest hook of all: It plays games that look only marginally different from their console counterparts. No genre or style of game is out of reach for the Vita.

We put up with a lot from the PSP and DS because of their limitations. They couldn't do certain genres very well. The PSP's lack of a second analog stick made 3rd person shooters a chore to play. The lack of a touch screen hindered the type of games possible on the system. The DS had the touchscreen, but lacked the horsepower to create some truly ambitious games.

The Vita doesn't have those hindrances. If you want big, console style games, you got them. If you want smaller, "app-friendly" fair, you got it. You want a shooter that doesn't have you wrestling with the CLAW or other shoehorned control schemes, you got it.

Not everybody wants the same thing, so thank GOD for options. The Vita isn't trying to woo that person obsessed with Smart Phones or Tablets. The Vita is clearly aimed towards a gamer that wants a true gaming handheld. Apps like Netflix, Twitter, Facebook are the bonus, whereas, on Smart phones and tablets, it's the reverse; social apps are the main draw, and the games are the bonus.

I don't plan on using my phone for gaming anymore, because it just didn't click with me (no buttons, no real sense of feedback while playing; disposable titles with very few gems; most games cut from the same cloth, etc). I'm dying to get my hands on a Vita, because I want to play some games on a machine that was built for that purpose from the ground up. If I want to send my friends some messages on Twitter, there about a million other ways to do that. When I fire up my Vita, believe you me, it's because I want to get some serious gaming in. Finding out what internet drama my friends and family are up to isn't what my gaming handheld is for.
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Goddamn. I'm agreeing so hard here, it hurts. Bravo for putting it into words far more eloquent than I would have.
 
Figboy79 said:
I don't plan on using my phone for gaming anymore, because it just didn't click with me (no buttons, no real sense of feedback while playing; disposable titles with very few gems; most games cut from the same cloth, etc). I'm dying to get my hands on a Vita, because I want to play some games on a machine that was built for that purpose from the ground up. If I want to send my friends some messages on Twitter, there about a million other ways to do that. When I fire up my Vita, believe you me, it's because I want to get some serious gaming in. Finding out what internet drama my friends and family are up to isn't what my gaming handheld is for.
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You hit the nail on the head right here, this is exactly how I feel well.
 
Figboy79 said:
People really have smartphones on the brain, it seems.

It didn't dawn on me until the other day, listening to my co-workers jabber on about their various smartphone games that some people just really, really like those styles of games. I can't fault them for it, any more than I can fault my love for an Uncharted or a God of War.

I work at Capcom/Beeline Interactive. We make the Smurf's Village game, among others, but Smurf's is our bread and butter. I deal with Android and iOS devices every day at work.

I've owned my smartphone for almost a year now, and when I first got it, I was all over downloading apps like crazy. Playing all sorts of free and cheap games, but after a few weeks, it wore off, and none of those games were doing it for me. Cute distractions isn't what appeals to me as a gamer. Yes, I have Angry Birds on my phone. I've played it a total of about 30 minutes. It's certainly fun, but sometimes a guy just wants something with a little more, er, meat on it's bones.

The Vita is scratching an itch I've had since I first saw the original Game Boy when it released and I was 10 years old. For 22 years I've been dying for a portable device that truly captured what it was like playing the big boxes I had hooked up to my TV. There was always some kind of limitation to what a portable device could do. Whether it was horsepower or input options.

The Vita doesn't need an "Android" OS hook, or a bunch of apps. It's hook is that it has a 5" OLED screen. It has a touchscreen and rear touch pad. It has dual analog sticks. And the biggest hook of all: It plays games that look only marginally different from their console counterparts. No genre or style of game is out of reach for the Vita.

We put up with a lot from the PSP and DS because of their limitations. They couldn't do certain genres very well. The PSP's lack of a second analog stick made 3rd person shooters a chore to play. The lack of a touch screen hindered the type of games possible on the system. The DS had the touchscreen, but lacked the horsepower to create some truly ambitious games.

The Vita doesn't have those hindrances. If you want big, console style games, you got them. If you want smaller, "app-friendly" fair, you got it. You want a shooter that doesn't have you wrestling with the CLAW or other shoehorned control schemes, you got it.

Not everybody wants the same thing, so thank GOD for options. The Vita isn't trying to woo that person obsessed with Smart Phones or Tablets. The Vita is clearly aimed towards a gamer that wants a true gaming handheld. Apps like Netflix, Twitter, Facebook are the bonus, whereas, on Smart phones and tablets, it's the reverse; social apps are the main draw, and the games are the bonus.

I don't plan on using my phone for gaming anymore, because it just didn't click with me (no buttons, no real sense of feedback while playing; disposable titles with very few gems; most games cut from the same cloth, etc). I'm dying to get my hands on a Vita, because I want to play some games on a machine that was built for that purpose from the ground up. If I want to send my friends some messages on Twitter, there about a million other ways to do that. When I fire up my Vita, believe you me, it's because I want to get some serious gaming in. Finding out what internet drama my friends and family are up to isn't what my gaming handheld is for.
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Amen! Well said.
 
So... the PS Vita can be hooked up to an Hauppauge HD PVR, right? If so, that will make my purchase a lot more sweeter.

Can't wait for its release in less than 2 weeks.
 
Figboy79 said:
People really have smartphones on the brain, it seems.

It didn't dawn on me until the other day, listening to my co-workers jabber on about their various smartphone games that some people just really, really like those styles of games. I can't fault them for it, any more than I can fault my love for an Uncharted or a God of War.

I work at Capcom/Beeline Interactive. We make the Smurf's Village game, among others, but Smurf's is our bread and butter. I deal with Android and iOS devices every day at work.

I've owned my smartphone for almost a year now, and when I first got it, I was all over downloading apps like crazy. Playing all sorts of free and cheap games, but after a few weeks, it wore off, and none of those games were doing it for me. Cute distractions isn't what appeals to me as a gamer. Yes, I have Angry Birds on my phone. I've played it a total of about 30 minutes. It's certainly fun, but sometimes a guy just wants something with a little more, er, meat on it's bones.

The Vita is scratching an itch I've had since I first saw the original Game Boy when it released and I was 10 years old. For 22 years I've been dying for a portable device that truly captured what it was like playing the big boxes I had hooked up to my TV. There was always some kind of limitation to what a portable device could do. Whether it was horsepower or input options.

The Vita doesn't need an "Android" OS hook, or a bunch of apps. It's hook is that it has a 5" OLED screen. It has a touchscreen and rear touch pad. It has dual analog sticks. And the biggest hook of all: It plays games that look only marginally different from their console counterparts. No genre or style of game is out of reach for the Vita.

We put up with a lot from the PSP and DS because of their limitations. They couldn't do certain genres very well. The PSP's lack of a second analog stick made 3rd person shooters a chore to play. The lack of a touch screen hindered the type of games possible on the system. The DS had the touchscreen, but lacked the horsepower to create some truly ambitious games.

The Vita doesn't have those hindrances. If you want big, console style games, you got them. If you want smaller, "app-friendly" fair, you got it. You want a shooter that doesn't have you wrestling with the CLAW or other shoehorned control schemes, you got it.

Not everybody wants the same thing, so thank GOD for options. The Vita isn't trying to woo that person obsessed with Smart Phones or Tablets. The Vita is clearly aimed towards a gamer that wants a true gaming handheld. Apps like Netflix, Twitter, Facebook are the bonus, whereas, on Smart phones and tablets, it's the reverse; social apps are the main draw, and the games are the bonus.

I don't plan on using my phone for gaming anymore, because it just didn't click with me (no buttons, no real sense of feedback while playing; disposable titles with very few gems; most games cut from the same cloth, etc). I'm dying to get my hands on a Vita, because I want to play some games on a machine that was built for that purpose from the ground up. If I want to send my friends some messages on Twitter, there about a million other ways to do that. When I fire up my Vita, believe you me, it's because I want to get some serious gaming in. Finding out what internet drama my friends and family are up to isn't what my gaming handheld is for.
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You summed up exactly what I'm feeling w/ this handheld. I remember playing Super Mario Land 2 on my GameBoy, and thinking "Wow, I have a full fledged handheld Mario game! This is incredible!" Same with Links Awakening, and so on. I bought the DS in hopes to rekindle that magic, but it never did. I was amped for the PSP, and while it satisfied the handheld craving for a while, it quickly got put to the backburner as far as my favorite go to device.

With the Vita, I get that feeling again. The multimedia aspects aren't even whats appealing to me, its the games. HSG, Uncharted, full titles that could easily be successful on a console, ready to be played on the go. To think this is only the launch, I have a strong feeling this is going to be Sony's best device yet, and that is saying a lot.
 
The only reason I would want Android on the Vita is for being able to install emulators on it easily. I'm sure at some point the Vita will be hacked apart like the PSP, but its was so much easier getting emulators working on my Bionic then it was on my PSP. A portable system with dual analog sticks and emulators would have been amazing.
 
iBuzz7S said:
So... the PS Vita can be hooked up to an Hauppauge HD PVR, right? If so, that will make my purchase a lot more sweeter.

Can't wait for its release in less than 2 weeks.
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I can't find anything that suggests it can. Since the Vita has no native video out I don't see how its possible.
 
Look what arrived today. :)

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Yoona said:
I am a little too, even though they neutered Sigma and made it easier than Black. I just don't know what game to get at launch.
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Whoa what's this, there's a Vita ambassador status now?!

Android is susceptible to spyware and such, so Sony should stick with their own Vita OS.
 
Figboy79 said:
People really have smartphones on the brain, it seems.

It didn't dawn on me until the other day, listening to my co-workers jabber on about their various smartphone games that some people just really, really like those styles of games. I can't fault them for it, any more than I can fault my love for an Uncharted or a God of War.

I work at Capcom/Beeline Interactive. We make the Smurf's Village game, among others, but Smurf's is our bread and butter. I deal with Android and iOS devices every day at work.

I've owned my smartphone for almost a year now, and when I first got it, I was all over downloading apps like crazy. Playing all sorts of free and cheap games, but after a few weeks, it wore off, and none of those games were doing it for me. Cute distractions isn't what appeals to me as a gamer. Yes, I have Angry Birds on my phone. I've played it a total of about 30 minutes. It's certainly fun, but sometimes a guy just wants something with a little more, er, meat on it's bones.

The Vita is scratching an itch I've had since I first saw the original Game Boy when it released and I was 10 years old. For 22 years I've been dying for a portable device that truly captured what it was like playing the big boxes I had hooked up to my TV. There was always some kind of limitation to what a portable device could do. Whether it was horsepower or input options.

The Vita doesn't need an "Android" OS hook, or a bunch of apps. It's hook is that it has a 5" OLED screen. It has a touchscreen and rear touch pad. It has dual analog sticks. And the biggest hook of all: It plays games that look only marginally different from their console counterparts. No genre or style of game is out of reach for the Vita.

We put up with a lot from the PSP and DS because of their limitations. They couldn't do certain genres very well. The PSP's lack of a second analog stick made 3rd person shooters a chore to play. The lack of a touch screen hindered the type of games possible on the system. The DS had the touchscreen, but lacked the horsepower to create some truly ambitious games.

The Vita doesn't have those hindrances. If you want big, console style games, you got them. If you want smaller, "app-friendly" fair, you got it. You want a shooter that doesn't have you wrestling with the CLAW or other shoehorned control schemes, you got it.

Not everybody wants the same thing, so thank GOD for options. The Vita isn't trying to woo that person obsessed with Smart Phones or Tablets. The Vita is clearly aimed towards a gamer that wants a true gaming handheld. Apps like Netflix, Twitter, Facebook are the bonus, whereas, on Smart phones and tablets, it's the reverse; social apps are the main draw, and the games are the bonus.

I don't plan on using my phone for gaming anymore, because it just didn't click with me (no buttons, no real sense of feedback while playing; disposable titles with very few gems; most games cut from the same cloth, etc). I'm dying to get my hands on a Vita, because I want to play some games on a machine that was built for that purpose from the ground up. If I want to send my friends some messages on Twitter, there about a million other ways to do that. When I fire up my Vita, believe you me, it's because I want to get some serious gaming in. Finding out what internet drama my friends and family are up to isn't what my gaming handheld is for.
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AMAZING POST.

This needs to be echoed because it's the damn truth.
 
Bullza2o said:
Whoa what's this, there's a Vita ambassador status now?!

Android is susceptible to spyware and such, so Sony should stick with their own Vita OS.
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Any OS is susceptible to spyware and such, it just depends on how big a user base the device has so more devices can be infected. Android is really no different than Windows, you have to be smart with what you install on your device. The entire reason we got custom firmware on the PSP was because of security vulnerabilities. Would be just as easy to make software to brick the device using the same method.
 
Marty Chinn said:
Amen! Well said.
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Exactly how I feel, and after reading a USA Today article it is how most people tend to treat their smartphone. It is cool for the first month but then everything is the same/and or not very appealing. I may open the appstore once a month to see what is up on it, but other then that unless I am told about a specific game I never open the appstore like I do every Tuesday for psn.
 
frequency said:
So the official Sony travel case...
It doesn't open wide enough. So you have to be careful when putting the Vita inside or the zipper might scratch something. I just put my Vita in the case right now to let it charge since I have to go out to do some shopping. It scared me so much putting it in there.

I regret the $20. I should've waited and bought a Hori case or something.

I played with it for about 5 hours and the thing is covered in fingerprints. I need to get some microfiber cloth but I can never find them for sale anywhere. Always just in packs of other cleaning stuff I don't want.

Also, I'm not much of a digital download person. I intend to go physical for most things. I kind of regret spending $100 for the 32GB card. I was going to put music and videos (for the delicious screen!) on it, but the content manager is so not-good. And it only seems to recognize my mp4's.
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Ah, that doesn't sound good about the case. Mine just came in today. Getting the FEB though so I'll have that case as back up.

Any impressions on the Hori cases on Amazon?

Or this? http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-HORI-Pr...ccessories&hash=item3f138198d4#ht_4699wt_1392
 
frequency said:
So the official Sony travel case...
It doesn't open wide enough. So you have to be careful when putting the Vita inside or the zipper might scratch something. I just put my Vita in the case right now to let it charge since I have to go out to do some shopping. It scared me so much putting it in there.
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Doh, put me in the group that has this case preordered too. I did think you'd have to be a bit careful with the zippers, but didn't think it'd be scary. And your comment about it moving around a bit... It looked from the official vids on Youtube that it offered plenty of padding on both sides for a snug fit. Could you post some pics of the insides so we can see? Anything to help me pass the time, a week and a half wait is driving me crazy!
 
man....I'm itching for some Next Gen FIFA on the go.

I don't own Fifa12 or other Soccer games since PES 09...but I have wanted to get them every year, but just never got to it...I don't think I would play it that much at home....not with other games I need to finish.....although I play the demos to get my fútbol fix.

but on the go.....I can finally see myself putting time into it...more so than Madden I think. (I've played Madden 12 too much this season).

I'm just stuck if I want MLB The Show on the PS3 or Vita....probably PS3....unless they come out with some type of deal for both.
 
Got it at local mom & pop, don't want to reveal since they helped me out...

I can take a pic of the inside of the box if anyone would like to see.
 
Varshes said:
Got it at local mom & pop, don't want to reveal since they helped me out...

I can take a pic of the inside of the box if anyone would like to see.
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Did the place you got it from only offer the FEB?

In a way, if a Vita is gonna leak in the states, I'm fine with it as long as it's an FEB.

edit: Holy shit, Takao nice catch. It's a Canadian Vita. Nvm.
 
Figboy79 said:
People really have smartphones on the brain, it seems.

It didn't dawn on me until the other day, listening to my co-workers jabber on about their various smartphone games that some people just really, really like those styles of games. I can't fault them for it, any more than I can fault my love for an Uncharted or a God of War.

I work at Capcom/Beeline Interactive. We make the Smurf's Village game, among others, but Smurf's is our bread and butter. I deal with Android and iOS devices every day at work.

I've owned my smartphone for almost a year now, and when I first got it, I was all over downloading apps like crazy. Playing all sorts of free and cheap games, but after a few weeks, it wore off, and none of those games were doing it for me. Cute distractions isn't what appeals to me as a gamer. Yes, I have Angry Birds on my phone. I've played it a total of about 30 minutes. It's certainly fun, but sometimes a guy just wants something with a little more, er, meat on it's bones.

The Vita is scratching an itch I've had since I first saw the original Game Boy when it released and I was 10 years old. For 22 years I've been dying for a portable device that truly captured what it was like playing the big boxes I had hooked up to my TV. There was always some kind of limitation to what a portable device could do. Whether it was horsepower or input options.

The Vita doesn't need an "Android" OS hook, or a bunch of apps. It's hook is that it has a 5" OLED screen. It has a touchscreen and rear touch pad. It has dual analog sticks. And the biggest hook of all: It plays games that look only marginally different from their console counterparts. No genre or style of game is out of reach for the Vita.

We put up with a lot from the PSP and DS because of their limitations. They couldn't do certain genres very well. The PSP's lack of a second analog stick made 3rd person shooters a chore to play. The lack of a touch screen hindered the type of games possible on the system. The DS had the touchscreen, but lacked the horsepower to create some truly ambitious games.

The Vita doesn't have those hindrances. If you want big, console style games, you got them. If you want smaller, "app-friendly" fair, you got it. You want a shooter that doesn't have you wrestling with the CLAW or other shoehorned control schemes, you got it.

Not everybody wants the same thing, so thank GOD for options. The Vita isn't trying to woo that person obsessed with Smart Phones or Tablets. The Vita is clearly aimed towards a gamer that wants a true gaming handheld. Apps like Netflix, Twitter, Facebook are the bonus, whereas, on Smart phones and tablets, it's the reverse; social apps are the main draw, and the games are the bonus.

I don't plan on using my phone for gaming anymore, because it just didn't click with me (no buttons, no real sense of feedback while playing; disposable titles with very few gems; most games cut from the same cloth, etc). I'm dying to get my hands on a Vita, because I want to play some games on a machine that was built for that purpose from the ground up. If I want to send my friends some messages on Twitter, there about a million other ways to do that. When I fire up my Vita, believe you me, it's because I want to get some serious gaming in. Finding out what internet drama my friends and family are up to isn't what my gaming handheld is for.
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Let this post be made into its own thread and stickied for all eternity. Sums up exactly how I feel. That being said, my kids absolutely love smurfs village. You should have heard the squeal of delight from my 7 yr old when you made the smurfette Valentine's day update. But the vita is mine and houses the games I'm looking for. It appeals to me more as a gamer than anything ios has available.
 
raven777 said:
Well, I saw good comments about this case back when it was released in Japan, and thats why I ordered this case. And after reading your impression, I am starting to get worried. Its already shipped so I can't cancel the item...well I will have to see.
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the androgyne said:
Doh, put me in the group that has this case preordered too. I did think you'd have to be a bit careful with the zippers, but didn't think it'd be scary. And your comment about it moving around a bit... It looked from the official vids on Youtube that it offered plenty of padding on both sides for a snug fit. Could you post some pics of the insides so we can see? Anything to help me pass the time, a week and a half wait is driving me crazy!
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I don't own a cellphone or digital camera (yup...) so I can't take pictures.
I wish I could be more helpful.

You probably shouldn't be too distressed because of my impressions. Especially if other people have said this was a good case. I might just be particularly picky. I'm also worried about like everything, so maybe the zipper thing isn't really that big a deal for normal people.

There is some padding. Like a cm or so on each side. And the inside is "split" into 2 parts by a padded piece of fabric in the middle (where the game carts go). But with the other side empty, since I don't intend to pack in the charger and cable, the Vita kinda wiggles around. It's not like major movement or anything. Like I said, I just worry about the smallest things ever. The case is about 3 times as fat as the Vita.

Since you've already got it coming in the mail, worrying about it now wouldn't do any good anyway. I'd like to hear what you think about it when you get the case and your Vitas though! I'd be nice to know if I'm just crazy.
 
^^^ Good post Figboy. I know that many people prefer timewasting games for their portable gaming, but I've always wanted a handheld like the Vita that offers games like Uncharted on the go. So I'm definitely gonna support this thing.
 
=Doh, put me in the group that has this case preordered too. I did think you'd have to be a bit careful with the zippers, but didn't think it'd be scary. And your comment about it moving around a bit... It looked from the official vids on Youtube that it offered plenty of padding on both sides for a snug fit. Could you post some pics of the insides so we can see? Anything to help me pass the time, a week and a half wait is driving me crazy!
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I can get some pictures of the travel pouch up if want.
 
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Thanks, friend. This makes me excited for Wednesday, and also angry at you for getting it before Wednesday.
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Question about the Vita Hill Social Clubs and their Event for Chicago. I see they change a lot on their site does anyone know if they're doing anything on the launch day ?
 
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