Playstation Vita

[LiMuBai]

Anyone got SFxT yet? How does it transfer to the Vita? Thinking of picking it up

[Nate Dogg III]

Im just happy to have monkey target back (long story but a game that back on the gamecube got me the most mindblowing shag of my life !)

I must hear this story immediately.

[DoctorEggo]

Also I was going to get Pure Chess earlier and noticed there was a Halloween bundle pack... yet they don't actually say what it is!

It's the game and the halloween piece set dlc. I'm not a big chess player, but picked it up on a whim and really enjoying it - it's very slick.

[Qazimod]

Last month Persona 4 Golden’s European publisher NIS America announced that the game would be available during spring 2013 - some months after its November 20th US release date.

Now NIS America has brought forward the game’s European launch to February 22nd, which just so happens to be the PS Vita’s one-year anniversary! According to the publisher this date is “tentative” so it could still change in the coming months.

http://www.el33tonline.com/past/2012/10/30/persona_4_golden_receives_tentative/

Okay, that could mean anything, but right now I'll take speculation over nothing...

[Lorfarius]

Isn't there meant to be an update on Wednesdays? Checked at lunch but nothing new (not even AC 3), anyone know when we can expect it. I'm really hoping they've got their act together and put Retro City Rampage on it.

[Chooch]

Ac3 will be Friday. That other game isn't out yet

[Gotters]

I must hear this story immediately.

it involved a former miss world contestant, a bean bag and squirting.

[Nnooo]

AC3 is up downloading it now.

[Nnooo]

So AC3 Liberation plays pretty much (so far) as any other Assasins Creed I am loving having a bit more of a motivation this time and can't get enough of killing racist slave master pigs!

Graphics are ok. They are impressive in terms of how much the Vita is pushing but the colours feel a bit washed out and texture work is a bit rough around the edges.

Going to pick up Need for Speed today too!

[sandman]

I was in Game yesterday and their Vita section was pathetic. No Little Kings Story and much more surprisingly, no Assassins Creed. And they want £44.99 for Uncharted.

I thought they were supposed to really be behind the Vita.

[Janski]

Yup, same in Blockbuster yesterday - nothing but preowned launch games ("what else is there lolz etc") . The guy was almost apologetic when I asked where the Vita games had moved to.

They did have Assasins Creed Liberation however but it was in the back - £39.99 which is about as good a price online

It's on it's arse at retail, but then Sony seem to be truly awful at marketing their games these days

[sandman]

They need a Mario Kart type success to turn it around like the 3ds.

[KriessG]

So no white Vita announced for Europe yet?

[catinthehat]

Is there a demo for Liberation on the way?

[Wickedkitten]

I was in Game yesterday and their Vita section was pathetic. No Little Kings Story and much more surprisingly, no Assassins Creed. And they want £44.99 for Uncharted.

I thought they were supposed to really be behind the Vita.

At our local tesco extra they have moved the vita section right next to the ps3 section and were actually sold out of quite a few things. Prices were a shitload less than 44 though which might explain why.

[Chooch]

Or they had 1 copy of everything and havent restocked.

[Lorfarius]

They need a Mario Kart type success to turn it around like the 3ds.

They need a hell of a lot more than 1 game to turn it round.

[Wickedkitten]

Nah Tesco here is actually really really good on the games front, they even stock PCgames and the preowned section is fairly large as well.

[FSW]

Yeah, it's disappointing. The current Vita sale comprises £5.19 SFXT costume packs. Awesome.

[Looper]

They're really doing their best to fuck this up. Starting to lose faith a bit

[FSW]

It'll be a real shame if this ends up with everyone hoping for a full low-level hack to turn it into an emulation device. It is possible to make excellent games on Vita. Rayman is proof of that. It looks stunning and plays brilliantly too.

[keineboom]

It'll be a real shame if this ends up with everyone hoping for a full low-level hack to turn it into an emulation device. It is possible to make excellent games on Vita. Rayman is proof of that. It looks stunning and plays brilliantly too.

As it does in the identical 360 and PS3 versions. The Vita needs its own identity and a constant stream of smaller app style games like Motorstorm and Mutant Blobs, if it had these I'd pick mine up a hell of a lot more. It's a great console but seems to have been left to die by Sony and retailers alike. The only console I regret purchasing, which is a massive shame.

[rumblecat]

Yeah, I'm starting to get that way a bit too. I don't regret it because I've got a nice catalogue of PSP titles on it and few Vita games I really enjoy, but it does feel like games like COD and Assassin's Creed were developed back where there was still a bit of buzz and hope around the Vita.

Even companies like R* who supported the PSP massively (eight games all together including three original titles) seem to be ignoring it in favour of iOS devices. And while stores I've been to in Asia have decent Vita sections, the ones in the UK seem miniscule to the point of being derisory. As happy as I am to be able to play Max Payne, GTA3 and Vice City on the iPhone, I'd love to have seen them being ported over to the Vita as digital downloads as well.

I just think the Mini Store is a classic example of something done wrong. You see the titles, but no screenshots, nothing to really show you what sort of game it is. Sure, you can google all the titles one by one, but compared to the App Store where you get four or five screenshots, user reviews, big blurbs... it's counter-intuitive to impulse purchasing.

[Vemsie]

Edge has their AC review up by the way:

http://www.edge-online.com/review/assassins-creed-iii-liberation-review/

7/10

[Dandy_Sephy]

It'll be a real shame if this ends up with everyone hoping for a full low-level hack to turn it into an emulation device.

You'd have to be incrediably naive to think they weren't doing that since the machine was released. Stuff all that though.

[Retroguy]

Anyone importing Ragnarok Odyssey? Quite like the look of it, but the few reviews I've read online seem to totally disagree- Destructoid give it 90%, IGN give it 50%

[FSW]

You'd have to be incrediably naive to think they weren't doing that since the machine was released. Stuff all that though.

Oh I know that's been work in progress since day one. I'm just saying I don't want that to be the ONLY thing left. I want to not even care about that because I'm swamped with Vita awesomeness.

[FSW]

Anyone importing Ragnarok Odyssey? Quite like the look of it, but the few reviews I've read online seem to totally disagree- Destructoid give it 90%, IGN give it 50%

Little bit of chatter on bordersdown about it:

http://www.bordersdown.net/showthread.php/99957-PSVita-(Successor-to-PSP-was-PSP2-then-NGP)/page322?p=1991498&highlight=Ragnarok%20Odyssey#post1991498

Seems as though it's liked.

[suzzopher]

I've been playing Need for Speed Most Wanted today and can honestly say it is Burnout Paradise in your pocket!

I can see this being my first Vita Platinum trophy.

[Epcotman]

If only they'd done a buy the VIta version and get the PS3 one for FREE! (They haven't, have they?) It's too difficult to choose between NFSMW PS3 and Vita.