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PS Vita OS Thread: Beautiful Chaos

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BoilersFan23

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What excites me most TBH is PS Vita having trophies, where they can be added to my current PS3 trophies. Now that I like, because I'll admit it gets me to want to do more with games. With my PS Vita having trophies, I'd have big incentive to play my games often.
 
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jiggle

Member
in game browser is gonna be so useful for not wanting to miss anything in rpg
so glad screen cap is finally, officially, supported
no dvix support?
i kinda want 3G for near...
 
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SneakyStephan

Banned
I like almost everything about vita apart from the lack of l2 and r2 buttons, but I can't get used to the OS.

I think it looks ugly as sin, like some second rate tabloid cover.
The clusterfuck ish look reminds me of how MS designed windows live, which is the biggest insult I can think of when talking about a UI.
 
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Salsa

Member
it looks soooooooo convoluted for the sake of it. Everything has a very different style and color scheme. Its messy, and i think they'll work on that either before release or after, cause as of now it seems pretty confusing for no reason. XMB did it right.

Still looking forward to it though
 
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VariantX04

Loser slave of the system :(
How can you possibly not be hyped for the Vita after reading the OP? Shit's insane. Japanese launch here I come!
 
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krypt0nian

Banned
Fucking love this OS. Visually inviting and colorful, very responsive to touch and no obvious janky implementation.

Very excited for things like Near and the PSV "Home" apps.
 
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BadWolf

Member
Awesome UI, very cool and stands out a lot. This should definitely give the system a fresh and new feeling. XMB was nice but its old now and I'm glad Sony is moving on.
 
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W1SSY

Member
Great OT and very informative. I hadn't saw a lot on the OS for vita and didn't like the look of the bubbles but it seems to be pretty good. This makes me look forward to what Sony has planned for the next home console. It seems like they learned a lot from the PS3 and it's interface.
 
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Link Man

Banned
I usually don't like making reposts, but I was unsure of whether to post this here or in the other Vita thread (I ended up posting it there, where it was seemingly ignored). Thus, I'll post it here as well (and I apologize if it seems a bit rude to do so).

We all know that Sony sometimes has trouble marketing devices. Anyone who remembers the launches of their current systems might recall crying baby dolls and street-cultured squirrels. I thought I'd get the jump on Sony this time and come up with a terrible Vita commercial all on my own.

The scene opens on a grown man (for this example, imagine Michael Cera) wearing comically age-inappropriate clothing (for example, footie pajamas and a dress-up cowboy hat). A stern woman's voice says "Mikey, you need to take your Vita-mins!". (Note this is pronounced like Vita.) The man says "Yes, Mommy!" and the camera cuts to the palm of his hand, in which sits a pill-sized Vita. He swallows the Vita, and an antenna rises out of his head. The camera zooms in on his eyes as his pupils widen, and within them we see snippets of Vita's games, OS and social interactivity. His pupils contract as the camera zooms out, and the man is now wearing a fashionable suit and hairstyle. It cuts to a black screen with the Vita logo, as a seductive voice whispers "Live it."
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Edit: Oh, and great OT, very professional.
 
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androvsky

Member
jiggle said:
in game browser is gonna be so useful for not wanting to miss anything in rpg
so glad screen cap is finally, officially, supported
no dvix support?
i kinda want 3G for near...
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I've been thinking (uh-oh). If Sony doesn't completely screw up the approval stage of PS Suite apps (not holding my breath), then there's really no reason why we won't get separate media player apps like we do with Android phones. Why wouldn't we see something like doubletwist that supports iTunes playlists, divx, mkv, the whole nine yards? PS Suite is for games and non-gaming apps, it might not be limited to streaming video services and social media.
 
kiunchbb

kiunchbb

www.dictionary.com
If Vita has unlimited 3G plan + hand-free mic, does that mean I can use skype to replace my cellphone?

Assume that 3G in my area is good, which isn't.
 
Angry Fork

Angry Fork

Member
It's funny how everything that people want on PS3 seem to be happening for Vita. That's great but it's just weird how technology progresses so fast and now all that stuff is possible on a handheld (in terms of features, in game browser, universal connectivity etc. stuff like that). I hope so bad that Vita is successful so Sony can continue to push tech with PS4. I'll be supporting Vita day one.

SneakyStephan said:
I like almost everything about vita apart from the lack of l2 and r2 buttons, but I can't get used to the OS.

I think it looks ugly as sin, like some second rate tabloid cover.
The clusterfuck ish look reminds me of how MS designed windows live, which is the biggest insult I can think of when talking about a UI.
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I think devs will use the back touch thing as L2/R2 if need be. You can tap it and it'll do a function they've shown this with Uncharted already. Completely agree on the OS though it looks really messy imo with too many colors mixed everywhere. Clusterfuck is the perfect way to describe what I see visually.
 
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theBishop

Banned
Angry Fork said:
It's funny how everything that people want on PS3 seem to be happening for Vita. That's great but it's just weird how technology progresses so fast and now all that stuff is possible on a handheld (in terms of features, in game browser, universal connectivity etc. stuff like that). I hope so bad that Vita is successful so Sony can continue to push tech with PS4. I'll be supporting Vita day one.
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I'm almost scared to see what PS4 will be like combined with that 3D headset they're making.

sony3dheadset-4.jpg


If they get head-tracking, Elder Scrolls 7 will be hard to leave.
 
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Ydahs

Member
First thing I'll be doing is finding out a way to disable that awful bubble interface.

The OS seems feature packed, but I doubt I'll use a lot of it considering my smartphone does all that and more. What I will be using is Remote Play.
 
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Kuran

Banned
felipepl said:
Sony is doing so many, many things right here that it's almost too good.

If this thing doesn't sell well, seriously - there's no hope for serious portable gaming as we know it anymore. Portable gaming's future will be on smartphones, like it or not.
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This.
 
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Lazy8s

The ghost of Dreamcast past
"Vita is capable of MSAA"... that's a weird thing to include in the OS feature list...

Probably better to highlight GPU compositing and vector graphics capabilities.
 
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Amir0x

Banned
OS is hit or miss, but goddamn at all the features. Now this is how you launch a modern handheld platform for gamign
 
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Bad_Boy

time to take my meds
Lazy8s said:
"Vita is capable of MSAA"... that's a weird thing to include in the OS feature list...

Probably better to highlight GPU compositing and vector graphics capabilities.
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True. But, I thought it would be something interesting to note, as there are 3D graphics that run in the OS. For example, The bubbles on the UI are actually 3D, and rotate when you move the Vita around.

MSAA and a high resolution makes them look smooth.
 
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Razlo

Member
I really want to know if the Vita supports multiple profiles like the PS3! It would make my life a ton easier if it did.
 
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Izayoi

Banned
I fucking hate it. It's cluttered and unorganized and ugly. Why drop the XMB? I fucking love the XMB, bring that shit back.
 
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Kyoufu

Member
Izayoi said:
I fucking hate it. It's cluttered and unorganized and ugly. Why drop the XMB? I fucking love the XMB, bring that shit back.
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Because XMB doesn't work with multi-touch.

dealwithit.gif

edit: XMB is ugly as sin.
 
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Izayoi

Banned
Kyoufu said:
Because XMB doesn't work with multi-touch.

dealwithit.gif

edit: XMB is ugly as sin.
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They could make it work. Anything is better than... this.

Also, it doesn't have to be ugly.

110913_0000gcn4.png
 
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Thoraxes

Member
Do they make capacitive styli? I really hate using my fingers on screens. I am super-neurotic when it comes to fingerprints on any surface that shows it, and I would hate to degrade that screen with fingers.
 
PSYGN

PSYGN

Member
I wonder if applying a custom background will wrap across the bg in all screens and unify the interface a bit more through that.
 
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Bad_Boy

time to take my meds
Sony should have publishers release Triple (or would it be Quad?) Play Blu-ray releases for Vita.

blu_ray_triple_play_is_done--article_image.jpg


Maybe just put a PS Store voucher code for Video download in the box. Or a way to send the digital copy to the vita.

I want HD movies on my Vita's OLED! Long gone is the ghosting of PSP's LCD.
 
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Kyoufu

Member
Thoraxes said:
Do they make capacitive styli? I really hate using my fingers on screens. I am super-neurotic when it comes to fingerprints on any surface that shows it, and I would hate to degrade that screen with fingers.
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Buy protective film cover. Problem solved.
 
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kyo_daikun

Member
Bad_Boy said:
Sony should have publishers release Triple (or would it be Quad?) Play Blu-ray releases for Vita.

blu_ray_triple_play_is_done--article_image.jpg


Maybe just put a PS Store voucher code for Video download in the box. Or a way to send the digital copy to the vita.

I want HD movies on my Vita's OLED! Long gone is the ghosting of PSP's LCD.
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Im assuming in the double/triple play packs you could just use the generic download code they come with anyway for windows media player version and transfer it to the vita.
 
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Bad_Boy

time to take my meds
kyo_daikun said:
Im assuming in the double/triple play packs you could just use the generic download code they come with anyway for windows media player version and transfer it to the vita.
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I don't have any of these type of blu-rays, do you know what format the digital copy is in? wmv?

The problem I see is that sometimes, specific resolutions and formatting are not supported, even though the file size might match.

I have some avi's that my PS3 see's as "corrupted" while other avi's work fine.
 
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kyo_daikun

Member
Bad_Boy said:
I don't have any of these type of blu-rays, do you know what format the digital copy is in? wmv?

The problem I see is that sometimes, specific resolutions and formatting are not supported, even though the file size might match.

I have some avi's that my PS3 see's as "corrupted" while other avi's work fine.
Click to expand...

I've only used them a few times, you normally get a code for an itunes download and I think its a WMV file.
 
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Hitoribhoshi

Member
Great thread !

Did anybody say or show anything about blutooth support ? (dualshock3/headset support like on the PSPGo?)
can I forget about mkv support now?
 
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vodka-bull

Member
arbok26 said:
im disappointed the cameras are only VGA!

thats 640x480.... u would think it would be in at least HD!!
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You're not supposed to make landscape photography with it and for everything else VGA's just fine.
 
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