Vita PSN Game And Service Thread

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Anybody picking up the ACIII: Liberation Vita bundle?

I initially told myself I'd wait, but I pulled the trigger when Best Buy had Uncharted bundled with it. The white Vita is tempting, but the black matches my other stuff (except my phone, which is white).

Pretty sure I will.
Wish they'd offer a GC with purchase ala the Madden bundle, but they probably won't.
 
Ah. Well, when I noticed the jagginess in the UI (well, to be specific the 3D elements in the UI, which don't encompass everything), I didn't think the screen was bad. I just thought there was aliasing, which had nothing to do with the screen. So that's why I was confused by your comment, but okay. Carry on.
Yeah the thing is that i didn't 'research' about the hardware at all i just looked at the previews of the games and when i first saw the UI i thought 'is the screen this low res?' (i put the vita aside during the intro video) but obviously my concerns faded away as soon as i played some VT4 which is easily the cleanest looking vita game to date.
 
.... You know what I've Learnt while making this game review thread?

THERE ARE TOO MANY GAMES FOR VITA.
For a portable system without games, I would put forward that it's had the best first year ever for games of any portable system... period.

Can any of these other platforms put forward a better Year 1 software library?

- Game Boy
- Game Boy Color
- Game Boy Advance
- Virtual Boy
- Nintendo DS
- Nintendo 3DS
- Game Gear
- Nomad
- Lynx
- TurboExpress
- WonderSwan
- NeoGeo Pocket Color
- N-Gage
- iOS (iPhone & iPad)
- Android
- Sony PlayStation Portable

I think not.

(And that's not even covering all of the other game system libraries it has access to: PSP, PS1, PS Minis, PS Mobile, Remote Play titles via PS3)
 
Black Friday will most assuredly offer some insane Vita deal. Maybe even a sub $200 price.

I'm Canadian, and nowhere near the US border, so I won't get to take advantage of Black Friday deals. =(
Maybe online, if Best Buy US ships to Canada. Depending on what I buy, the cost of shipping shrinks the savings pretty badly.
 
I'm Canadian, and nowhere near the US border, so I won't get to take advantage of Black Friday deals. =(
Maybe online, if Best Buy US ships to Canada. Depending on what I buy, the cost of shipping shrinks the savings pretty badly.
You can always wait until Boxing Day. And some online retailers that ship to Canada do offer Cyber Monday deals.
 
For a portable system without games, I would put forward that it's had the best first year ever for games of any portable system... period.

Can any of these other platforms put forward a better Year 1 software library?

- Game Boy
- Game Boy Color
- Game Boy Advance
- Virtual Boy
- Nintendo DS
- Nintendo 3DS
- Game Gear
- Nomad
- Lynx
- TurboExpress
- WonderSwan
- NeoGeo Pocket Color
- N-Gage
- iOS (iPhone & iPad)
- Android
- Sony PlayStation Portable

I think not.

(And that's not even covering all of the other game system libraries it has access to: PSP, PS1, PS Minis, PS Mobile, Remote Play titles via PS3)

Nope, Vitabro.

Vita had the first launch line-up ever in the gaming history. I'd include computers and home console here too. Some some home consoles had some really few awesome classic gems, but that's all. Vita had quality and quantity of great games at launch or really close to it (in addition to the typical garbage that every other system also had). And as a very secondary bonus you had there the PSP and Minis gems (and now PS1 too). Period.

Hail to the Vita! Living la Vita loca!
 
You can always wait until Boxing Day. And some online retailers that ship to Canada do offer Cyber Monday deals.

I'll definitely be taking advantage of Boxing Day sales to get some games.
Does PSN ever have sales around Black Friday or Cyber Monday? I'll have ACIII:L, Zero Escape and Persona 4 to keep me busy for a bit, but there are several digital games I want to purchase.
Hopefully there'll be some Cyber Monday deals on larger Vita memory cards, too.
 
For a portable system without games, I would put forward that it's had the best first year ever for games of any portable system... period.

Can any of these other platforms put forward a better Year 1 software library?

Personally I don't think so. Put it this way. Vita is the only handheld I've ever bought in the first year. And while I do plan on getting a 3DS, there's not enough games to interest me as of right now

Problem is Vita doesn't look so hot in terms of future support and adoption rate.
 
I'll definitely be taking advantage of Boxing Day sales to get some games.
Does PSN ever have sales around Black Friday or Cyber Monday? I'll have ACIII:L, Zero Escape and Persona 4 to keep me busy for a bit, but there are several digital games I want to purchase.
Hopefully there'll be some Cyber Monday deals on larger Vita memory cards, too.

They never really do Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales on PSN. The next major sale will probably be winter/Christmas related.
 
Personally I don't think so. Put it this way. Vita is the only handheld I've ever bought in the first year. And while I do plan on getting a 3DS, there's not enough games to interest me as of right now

Problem is Vita doesn't look so hot in terms of future support and adoption rate.

It's the same for me with the 3DS. Plus my sister has one, so I can just borrow hers when a game I want to play comes out. I'll likely purchase one sometime next year when Fire Emblem comes out.

They never really do Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales on PSN. The next major sale will probably be winter/Christmas related.

That works for me. I'm in no rush for other games since I'll have P4 to hold me over for awhile. It'll give me more time to hopefully find a good deal on a 16 or 32GB memory card. Definitely can't bring myself to pay $100 for a 32GB card.
 
Just another quick update - I have finished the retail part of the Vita review thread :) now I'm going through adding people's reviews to each game and the ill make the PSN part!
 
Really wish we'd get more Super Monkey Ball information. Considering SEGA has been the biggest supporter of the platform thus far, they sure do like sweeping their titles under the radar.
 
So JSR Vita is confirmed for 10/30? They better not fuck with my emotions any longer.
Yep, no confirmations yet.
The 10/30 date is based on the only acknowledgement we've heard from Sega on the matter that JSR would be delayed "a couple of weeks".
A couple of weeks is 10/30. Could easily be delayed beyond that. Could easily come out next week. Could easily vanish into thin air. Who can say?
 
Hum, they said a couple weeks? I'm starting to think the speculation that Jet Set Radio would be free for Playstation Plus is correct.
 
I think tamaster was mentioning something about making a review thread. Would probably be a good idea, although I feel like impressions could go in here. I mean, if you're talking about games on Vita PSN, that should include impressions, and every Vita game is on PSN, so...



I'm not saying you don't have a Vita, but I can't help but feel like the lack of positive info you receive is your own fault, since you only seem to participate and post in the stuff that isn't really positive. So maybe you're only really hearing what you want to hear. Why haven't you posted/commented on the native-res 60fps PS All-Stars BR?

cuz that's positive stuff! :D


is this beta demo thingy available for nonplus folks?

But seriously, i've been impressed by the hardware, but outside of Virtua Tennis 4 (native resolution 60 fps!), the rest of the half dozen vita games have not impressed me visually :/

I do like to pop in vita threads, It's not my fault most of them are negative D:
 
Hum, they said a couple weeks? I'm starting to think the speculation that Jet Set Radio would be free for Playstation Plus is correct.
In light of additional comments SEGA has released since Tuesday, I'm just going to remove it from the calendar and make it disappear. :o
 
Hum, they said a couple weeks? I'm starting to think the speculation that Jet Set Radio would be free for Playstation Plus is correct.

Are you kidding? Sony LOVES to give PS+ games they've already more than likely bought. It would be a total Sony move to let it come out, Sega gets a bunch of sales, then they give it away for free. :lol
 
I'll definitely be taking advantage of Boxing Day sales to get some games.
Does PSN ever have sales around Black Friday or Cyber Monday? I'll have ACIII:L, Zero Escape and Persona 4 to keep me busy for a bit, but there are several digital games I want to purchase.
Hopefully there'll be some Cyber Monday deals on larger Vita memory cards, too.

There is supposedly going to be a sale on 10/23 when the new PSN store goes up in NA. It won't be late enough to offer sales on the games you listed, but maybe there are games that are already on PSN that you want.
 
That's insane. You had to do that in under 60 seconds too!
Nah, you get a time bonus for lining up 4 gems, I think. I guess I was on some kind of streak. XD

Also, PSABR on Vita is awesome and proves that there is plenty of power in there to execute good-looking, 60FPS games.
 
Nah, you get a time bonus for lining up 4 gems, I think. I guess I was on some kind of streak. XD

Also, PSABR on Vita is awesome and proves that there is plenty of power in there to execute good-looking, 60FPS games.

Maybe they should make Bluepoint's engine available to all Vita developers :D

cuz that's positive stuff! :D


is this beta demo thingy available for nonplus folks?

But seriously, i've been impressed by the hardware, but outside of Virtua Tennis 4 (native resolution 60 fps!), the rest of the half dozen vita games have not impressed me visually :/

I do like to pop in vita threads, It's not my fault most of them are negative D:

My point is, why do you only post in the negative ones? Or a negative point in a neutral thread? About PSASBR, do you live in the US? Anyone can download it for Vita in the US, Plus or not.
 
There is supposedly going to be a sale on 10/23 when the new PSN store goes up in NA. It won't be late enough to offer sales on the games you listed, but maybe there are games that are already on PSN that you want.

Thanks for the heads-up. There are several games already out that I want to play, so I'll definitely take a look and see what's on sale.
 
That works for me. I'm in no rush for other games since I'll have P4 to hold me over for awhile. It'll give me more time to hopefully find a good deal on a 16 or 32GB memory card. Definitely can't bring myself to pay $100 for a 32GB card.

I keep repeating this thread after thread watching people lament how they run out of room on their memory cards. Spend the extra and get the bigger memory card. People are going to spend money on a smaller card now that could be money spent on the bigger card they want and will need instead of the stop gap. You don't have to spend $100 on a 32 GB card, nobody should. Amazon, even in Canadaland is usually around $80, you can be patient and keep refreshing waiting for a warehouse deal to get it cheaper, have seen them very good on warehouse deals for around $55. Even at 16GB I was maxed day one because of my already big PSP collection.

Thats why I could never get the people saying "These bundles better have 4GB stick or no deal" 4GB is a throwaway, I have one laying around somewhere here, probably lost I don't care, can maybe get $3 at gamestop for it. As long as its free whatever but people need to upgrade to get their fullest potential out of the Vita. Heck even youtube uses it to buffer HD video.

I've played PSABR beta on vita and I feel i'm in agreement with Colin from IGN. The characters are really really small. It looks damn good, but I could not keep track where my character was. I was better off pretending the 1p, 2p,3p and 4p icons were the characters. There was no way I could tell what moves they were doing and it quickly degraded into button mashing hoping I was hitting something.
 
Will Sonic Racing Transformed have cross-play with PS3? As in can a 4th person play this with 3 PS3 players using their Vita.
 
I keep repeating this thread after thread watching people lament how they run out of room on their memory cards. Spend the extra and get the bigger memory card. People are going to spend money on a smaller card now that could be money spent on the bigger card they want and will need instead of the stop gap. You don't have to spend $100 on a 32 GB card, nobody should. Amazon, even in Canadaland is usually around $80, you can be patient and keep refreshing waiting for a warehouse deal to get it cheaper, have seen them very good on warehouse deals for around $55. Even at 16GB I was maxed day one because of my already big PSP collection.

I definitely intend to get the 32GB, but as of right now I am in no rush. The three games I have to play when I get the Vita are all physical copies, so the 4GB bundled with the ACIII:L Vita will suffice for now.
When I am ready to purchase and play some digital content, I'll upgrade to the 32GB regardless. I'll just hopefully find a good deal between now and then. If I ever see it at $60 or less, I'd snatch it up right away.
 
So this thread is seeming to become more and more like the megathread.. as long as we don't talk about news though everything is a-ok :X

Gonna hop on PSABR for a bit, on my Vita. So torn between that, LBP Vita and and NLKS though. I want to advance in NLKS some more :\
 
I've been putting a lot of time into Wipeout Pure on my PSV (Wipeout ftw) and I'm wondering if there's any way to transfer the free track expansions released to the PSV?

It's a genuine shame that Sony don't have these available on PSN or included in the version on their store.
 
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Went on a small shopping spree

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So with PS+ arriving and Black Friday Discount Triple Check!, Jesus =/

Bought Tales (Just for you Carl), Sunflowers, Zen Pinball (got PS+ PS3 DLC free, bought PvZ table)
Treasure Montezuma + Treasure Park were free
 
Has anyone transferred Sega Genesis Collection to their Vita? I'm wondering how the games look and play? Any emulation issues?

I'm kind of curious on that one but I generally avoid retro game collections mainly because standalone emulators do it so much better.

Except for Activision Hits Remixed. That shit's the tits.
 
I'm kind of curious on that one but I generally avoid retro game collections mainly because standalone emulators do it so much better.

Except for Activision Hits Remixed. That shit's the tits.


I know nothing of this collection, I'll have to look into it. Is it for PSP? Is it on PSN and PS3-to-Vita transferable?

:::goes to PSN:::
 
I know nothing of this collection, I'll have to look into it. Is it for PSP? Is it on PSN and PS3-to-Vita transferable?

:::goes to PSN:::

It's PSP, and I think the only way to get it is PS3 to PSP.

It's bloody awesome - it's a set of Activision's Atari 2600 games with a fair bit of replay value, with unlockable badges (think achievements) and commercials, with a kickin 80s soundtrack in the background (including motherfucking Safety Dance!)
 
It's PSP, and I think the only way to get it is PS3 to PSP.

It's bloody awesome - it's a set of Activision's Atari 2600 games with a fair bit of replay value, with unlockable badges (think achievements) and commercials, with a kickin 80s soundtrack in the background (including motherfucking Safety Dance!)

Wait a minute, 40 Atari games including the ones from Imagic!? Thank you for the recommendation! SOLD

Yup, looks and plays great.

Thanks, Van! I'm buying that one too!
 
Anyone know of anywhere doing a b1 g150% or anything similar? Thinking of picking up both ACL/NFSMW but will wait for gamefly/black friday if I can't find any deals.
 
Wait a minute, 40 Atari games including the ones from Imagic!? Thank you for the recommendation! SOLD

The only thing I want is a couple of non-Activison games (the main ones being Adventure, Bezerk, Combat, Missile Command, DragonStomper and Space Invaders) but other than that the collection is just awesome.

Except the physics get screwed up in some games, Sonic 2 being notorious about that.

Heesh.
 
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