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I loved the Vita, I remember taking a day off work and buying one in HMV on release day with Uncharted, Wipeout 2048 & Virtua Tennis 4. The latter two were definitely my most played games - Persona 4 as well. The OLED still looks lovely and vibrant, plus personally I still find the system fairly quick to navigate around - likely the fact its based on a Unix OS. Honestly the build quality on the day 1 hardware was very good.

Totally agree on the memory cards, and Sony haven't changed at all e.g. Portal requiring their own headset for Bluetooth audio. That was one of the main factors in me buying a Steam Deck and just using Chiaki to remote play PS5, which I now use for most of my gaming.

I was hyped for the PSP in a ludicrous way at the time. Secured one of the Japanese launch units with Ridge Racers and it was glorious. It genuinely felt like a PS2 in your hands at the time (At least for a little bit) and the screen was gorgeous (Again, for the time). I remember just booting up Ridge Racers to show off the opening cutscene on it. Was a good 8-10 months before it launched here so it it always got attention from my mates when I brought it out.

Strangely enough I only ever bought 2 more games for it. Metal Gear Ac!d and Wipeout Pure, both as soon as they were available on import.
I also got GTA: Liberty City Storys for a present one year.

The main issue PSP faced was that it was ridiculously easy to softmod it and load dumped games and homebrew.
Quite early on as well. It was very easy to load downloaded PSP games.
I was utterly skint at the time and found it hard to afford many games (The PSP itself had been a joint Christmas/Birthday present) so I pirated stuff for it more than I would have liked.
But it did mean I got to experience most of the big games on it for a while.

The homebrew was game changing though. It was the first time I'd ever had a portable emulator of any kind and being able to play Mega Drive and (most) SNES games at full speed on the go was ridiculously cool.
ScummVM was great too. I actually found a bug in the emulator when playing Monkey Island, really deep into the game. It would just refuse to load up properly when you enter the big monkey head. So that game is completable on PSP based on my bug report. :slol:

Oh and the video playback ability was great as well. I remember converting episode of Star Trek Voyager to watch on the go when on longer journeys. I never actually had any of the UMD movies. I never really saw much point as I wouldn't really choose to watch a movie there.

All of that to say I strawberry floating loved the PSP at the time. :wub:

Never got a Vita though. Regret missing that one.

Peter Crisp wrote:What screen sizes are people thinking for a handheld?
A phone isn't big enough for me but going really big kind of makes it not portable any more.

Switch, Portal size. Mainly because any bigger would get heavy to hold. I must have played thousands of hours on my Gameboy as a kid, but I dont recall ever playing it away from home. My Switch has been played whilst travelling once, but about 700 hours at home.

Today, phones fill the need for a short burst of entertainment. That space is untouchable. But phones struggle to give a full fledged, console style experience. For me, a handheld console is about a dedicated free screen, personal to the person playing and not the entire room. At arms length, my Portal occupies roughly the same amount of eye space as the tv does, at the distance I watch tv. That's perfect.

Sony's futuristic controller concept brings back memories of the PS3 boomerang

Sony has shared a video detailing the company's future plans for the next decade, including a look ahead at one possible concept for a futuristic PlayStation controller.

"How far will imagination carry us?" the video asks, showing an artist's animated character coming to life before our eyes.

But the controller is the video's most eye-grabbing detail, as we see it being used to pilot a character through space. The pad features a holographic screen hovering above the controller itself, and would easily look home on the Starship Enterprise. (Although many online have made unfavourable comparisons to the infamous PS3 boomerang concept.)

https://www.eurogamer.net/sonys-futuris ... -boomerang

BRING BACK THE BOOMERANG!!

For The Shareholders™

ITSMILNER wrote:BRING BACK THE BOOMERANG!!

It's supposed to do that by itself.

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Never got a Vita though. Regret missing that one.

As brilliant a piece of hardware as it was, you missed out less than you think, sadly. Sony got the hardware right (storage aside) and just about everything else wrong.

Damian wrote:
Cheeky Devlin wrote:Never got a Vita though. Regret missing that one.

As brilliant a piece of hardware as it was, you missed out less than you think, sadly. Sony got the hardware right (storage aside) and just about everything else wrong.

That was the impression I got. Probably why I was less enamoured with it.

Shame really as I know those who did get them tended to love them. Certainly an under-appreciated bit of hardware.

How they treated vita is exactly why I didn’t get PSVR2. Amazing tech with no support left to die. The key to any future handheld has to be cross compatibility with PS store. It needs access to the back catalogue without developers needing expensive ports. The pick up rate vs cost to develop left the vita lacking games. And given Sonys approach to PS5 games (flagship system with barely any exclusives) I wouldn’t trust them with a separate eco system purely for handheld.

Steam deck is perfect example. It was engineered to run the steam back catalogue so anyone buying had near infinite games on day 1. It also breathed new life into older games and helped people with the backlog of steam sale games never played.

FatDaz wrote:no support left to die.

Yeah I own the aim controller, what of it? :capnscotty:

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:
ITSMILNER wrote:BRING BACK THE BOOMERANG!!

It's supposed to do that by itself.

FatDaz wrote:How they treated vita is exactly why I didn’t get PSVR2. Amazing tech with no support left to die. The key to any future handheld has to be cross compatibility with PS store. It needs access to the back catalogue without developers needing expensive ports. The pick up rate vs cost to develop left the vita lacking games. And given Sonys approach to PS5 games (flagship system with barely any exclusives) I wouldn’t trust them with a separate eco system purely for handheld.

Steam deck is perfect example. It was engineered to run the steam back catalogue so anyone buying had near infinite games on day 1. It also breathed new life into older games and helped people with the backlog of steam sale games never played.

Spot on with the PSV2 comparison.

I was really hoping to see some great things from that headset. But apart from that Horizon game I can't think of a single PSVR2 game off the top of my head.
There were also rumblings they were looking into making it PC compatible in some way.

Right now though the high cost and lack of anything I want to play on it mean I'm probably never going to get one.

I accidentally melted my Vita by leaving it on top of my cooker. I didn't realise that one of the hobs (electric) had been left on at its lowest setting since I last used it.

That was a painful sight when I realised what had happened. Totally gutted. I didn't smell anything as it was in its protective case,but it didn't stop it slowly warping out of shape as it sat there for hours.

twitter.com/natethehate2/status/1794116625056125307

Probably Astrobot will be there. Also he says the new Doom will be announced for PS5 etc at the Xbox showcase.

Guessing they are only holding showcases every other year then? Could still be a good show, looking forward to more Astrobot though.

What have Sony got first party wise this year? Wolverine? Not an exclusive but can see the MGS 3 remake featuring in a May event if it’s releasing this year.

Think Wolverine is further out, 2025/2026, this was rumoured to be a quiet year from Sony first party wise so maybe Astrobot and that Until Dawn Remake?

Well they must have something more to show if they’re going to bother having an event in May (although May is very nearly over), if that’s all they’ve got for this year, it’s going to be a quiet one.

They'll probably show more of Death Stranding 2 as well.

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