Vita Thread

[Himu]

DDS is an all time favorite and better than every final fantasy not named 12.

[demi]

It's especially better than 12, since it has a story worth hearing and a world thats more interesting

[Himu]

DDS1, I'll give you. DDS2? lol

[demi]

Better gameplay, better characters, better graphics, better music

12 is so bad

[demi]

They had to release a "fixed" version of 12 to attempt to fix it

[Himu]

sounds like your precious kingdom hearts, demi

[Bebpo]

DDS2 had a good story too.

[Himu]

no it doesn't

[MyNameIsMethodis]

itt nerds talk about games not on teh vita

[Eel O'Brian]

that list could just about fill up the mariana trench

and is growing every day

[MyNameIsMethodis]

[Eel O'Brian]

i know

[demi]

itt nerds talk about games not on teh vita

Portsona 4 is on Vita...

[tiesto]

DDS1 has such a killer soundtrack, one of the best from games last gen.

[archnemesis]

It has one of the best soundtracks at least.

[bork]

Gravity Rush is pretty fun!

[Positive Touch]

that list could just about fill up the mariana trench

and is growing every day

mmmmm marinara trench

[bork]

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/06/19/two-wipeout-2048-dlc-packs-on-psn-today/

PS Vita owners, get those engines ready: WipEout HD and Fury expansion packs are set to hit PS Vita today. For the first time ever, the most jaw-dropping, adrenaline-fueled anti-gravity racers combine — WipEout HD Fury and WipEout 2048 are together at last! For those of you who are fans of WipEout HD on the PS3 we have some great news for you: WipEout HD and WipEout HD Fury have been reimagined for PS Vita and are ready to be unleashed as expansion packs for WipEout 2048. Now you can experience the freedom of WipEout HD Fury on PS Vita and compete against pilots across the world whenever you want, wherever you are.

Starting today, two new WipEout 2048 DLC packs will be available for PS Vita on PlayStation Store. The first pack is the “WipEout 2048 WipEout HD Add-On Pack” for $7.99, which includes the full single-player WipEout HD campaign mode and all of the WipEout HD online multiplayer tracks. With 12 new tracks for your PS Vita (including eight reverse tracks), 12 additional ships, and a Zone Mode Ship, you’ll be put to the test after conquering WipEout 2048. As an added bonus, you’ll have access to an additional 12 crossplay tracks outside of the original four tracks included in WipEout 2048 for simultaneous multiplayer action on your PS3 and PS Vita.



Also launching today is the “WipEout 2048 WipEout HD Fury Add-On Pack” for $7.99, which includes the full single-player WipEout HD Fury campaign mode with all 12 tracks (including four reverse tracks and four Zone Mode tracks), 24 ships to choose from, and a Zone Mode Ship. The HD Fury Add-On pack also gives you access to another 12 crossplay tracks, granting you a ton of options when racing against your friends online.

If you’d like to own both of these new DLC packs, we’re offering a special bundle package for a value price of $12.99. With the “WipEout 2048 WipEout HD Fury Bundle,” you’ll receive all 24 beautifully designed WipEout HD tracks, 12 reverse tracks, four Zone Mode tracks, all 24 ships from the Wipeout HD titles, plus a Zone Mode ship and full crossplay access.



To make this deal even sweeter, we’ve got a special promotion that will let you experience WipEout’s exhilarating crossplay action on both PS3 and PS Vita. For those of you who already own WipEout HD or WipEout HD Fury on your PS3, you can automatically download the PS Vita versions for free! And the same works vice-versa as well: Anyone who purchases these new WipEout HD expansion packs from PlayStation Store on their PS Vita can download the packs for free on their PS3.

With two full games’ worth of new expansion content, and free content for existing owners, you’d be wise to jump on PSN later this afternoon and download this great new content. We look forward to seeing you on the track!

[Van Cruncheon]

have they fixed the load times

[Bebpo]

They made them 5 seconds shorter.

[Van Cruncheon]

so it's down to three minutes and 55 seconds?

i tried to play it at fry's and eventually walked away from the kiosk during the interminable load

NOT ON MY HANDHELD

[maxy]

Call Of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified (PS Vita)

Before the future could be won, history had to be written. Exposing that story exclusively on PlayStation Vita, Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified explores original fiction in the Call of Duty Black Ops universe with an all-new campaign of Special Ops missions. Optimized for gamers on-the-go, Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified delivers the most intense handheld Call of Duty experience to date, including both Special Ops Story mode and Multiplayer combat tailored for the PS Vita.

[bork]

Will buy as long as the multi is good.  Should be easy for them to put out a much better product than Resistance...

[Takao]

i dunno what if spark unlimited is making it

[cool breeze]

Ys Vita is out September 27th in Japan.  Don't think Xseed mentioning any plans to localize it.  Ys 7 came out about a year after the Japanese release and Oath was a few months.

Last time they showed the game was close to a year ago.  I thought it'd be canceled and moved to PSP/3DS.

[Bebpo]

Falcom said they weren't showing it because the original reveal was too early, everyone made fun of their extremely early alpha version graphics, and so they were afraid to show the game again until it looked like a proper HD game and not some psp title.  The only reason they showed it early was to let people know they were seriously backing the Vita pre-launch.

I'm hoping/expecting the visuals to blow Nayuta no Kiseki away.  Really wanna see the new scans.

[Purple Filth]

Free wipeout vita packs?  i'll get it since its free

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Free wipeout? Really?

[Bebpo]

Errrrrr.

If you own Wipeout 2048 (which costs money) and Wipeout HD & Wipeout HD Fury on PS3 (which costs money).  You get a Vita port of Wipeout HD & Wipeout HD Fury for free.

[Verdigris Murder]

Euro gets it tomorrow.

Some of the draw distances in Gravity Daze are excellent, shame about the getting wedged into the worlds geometry every so often.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Oh was hoping I get free 2048. Been meaning to buy it anyways guess I should get on that or try to swap Hot Shots for it or somethin.

[Takao]

Ys Vita is out September 27th in Japan.  Don't think Xseed mentioning any plans to localize it.  Ys 7 came out about a year after the Japanese release and Oath was a few months.

Last time they showed the game was close to a year ago.  I thought it'd be canceled and moved to PSP/3DS.

XSEED has been teasing that they'll be announcing sequels soon. So likely Ys IV, and Corpse Party 2 since Trails is  at this point.

[Bebpo]

So how's Gravity Rush?  I haven't popped it in yet.

[Eel O'Brian]

Oh was hoping I get free 2048. Been meaning to buy it anyways guess I should get on that or try to swap Hot Shots for it or somethin.

It's $20 at Wal-Mart.

So how's Gravity Rush?  I haven't popped it in yet.

It's good. Controls well. Very pretty game. Haven't had the time to play much of it.

[Eel O'Brian]

Also, I can get the Metal Gear Vita collection for like $13. Worth it? Or will I be making an angry post about it tomorrow?

[Cormacaroni]

Worth it for us

[Eel O'Brian]

I vaguely remember playing a bit of the first one from the PS2 collection a few years ago, but literally gave away my PS2 and games to a friend a couple of days after I bought it (I'd just bought a PS3). I cannot recall if I was enjoying it, or anything about it. The little time I spent left no impression whatsoever on me.

[Cormacaroni]

I've always despised the controls, due to having come to the series too late. I think everyone who likes it has nostalgia goggles on.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

it used to be my favorite series and everything but when I tried to replay it on both PS3 and 3DS in the collections and remake I couldn't convince myself to sit through 20 minutes of codec talking anymore and wondered why I ever thought they where cool or fun

[naff]

Doesn't the Vita port use the revised control scheme like the subsistence editions?

[Cormacaroni]

it used to be my favorite series and everything but when I tried to replay it on both PS3 and 3DS in the collections and remake I couldn't convince myself to sit through 20 minutes of codec talking anymore and wondered why I ever thought they where cool or fun

that too. Would be especially grim on the move.

[Akala]

Wipeout is Pretty sick in theory, assuming you can get not the vita controls...something I haven't quite done yet. :/

[cool breeze]

Some PSP games are on sale.  I picked up the Power Stone Collection so I can sort of make it my portable Dreamcast when JSR comes out.

Only messing around with the first game of the two, it seems like a solid port.  Runs really well, has proper horizontally extended widescreen (and options to play 4:3 or stretched 4:3), and some other improvements. 

So how's Gravity Rush?  I haven't popped it in yet.

A little half-baked but great.  Feels like an Assassin's Creed or ZoE where a sequel could wrangle all the ideas into a really well designed complete game.  It's probably the most amazed I've been playing a portable game since GTA on the PSP.  Just controlling gravity and messing around in the world is a ton of fun even if the game doesn't do a whole lot with it.

Doesn't the Vita port use the revised control scheme like the subsistence editions?

MGS3 does.  It doesn't use the MGS4/Peace Walker/MGS3 3DS controls that are more like other games.  The PS2 games are some of the few games that used the analog buttons so it's unusual to play if you're accustomed to modern controls.  The 360/Vita version try to make that work with regular digital buttons.

from reading gaf it seems the way firing a gun works is: hold R, hold square to ready weapon, release button to fire weapon -or- press down on the d-pad to put weapon away, aim with left stick.  I don't think right stick does anything in MGS2.  In MGS3 it controls camera.

[Bebpo]

Wipeout is Pretty sick in theory, assuming you can get not the vita controls...something I haven't quite done yet. :/

You can use normal controls.  It's in the options.

I use d-pad and l/r and gas.

[Takao]

[cool breeze]

this is the old trailer


from the poor scans you can see the hud changed.  that's something!

[Bebpo]

Yikes, it's like they're using cellphones from the first year cellphones had cameras.

[Joe Molotov]

That's some Loch Ness Monster photography going on there. I can't tell if I'm looking at Final Fantasy XIII or Ultima IV.

[Bebpo]

Ys looks good, Vita is still dead, Persona 4 port is going to outsell SMT4.

[Bebpo]

[bork]

What the fuck happened to actually SCANNING magazine pages?   

[cool breeze]

seeing the pictures on my phone made me think it looked better than it actually does.  It looks like a late-PS2 game now.  I wonder if that new perspective stays for battle, making it more like rogue galaxy.

[Takao]

As long as the games use anti-aliasing I'm fine with PS2 calibre visuals.

[D3RANG3D]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=479251

|System |  This Week  |  Last Week  |        YTD  |         LTD  |
------------------------------------------------------------------
|  3DS  |     61,793  |     64,875  |  2,002,398  |   6,284,542  |
|  PSV  |     34,459  |     13,383  |    325,528  |     765,513  |
|  PS3  |     14,673  |     15,593  |    603,597  |   8,239,983  |
|  PSP  |      9,740  |     10,038  |    424,054  |  19,153,416  |
|  WII  |      5,963  |      6,029  |    242,112  |  12,405,334  |
|  PS2  |      1,237  |      1,091  |     28,323  |  21,802,430  |
|  360  |      1,084  |      1,001  |     37,063  |   1,573,107  |
|  NDS  |      1,069  |        998  |     42,745  |  32,851,229  |
------------------------------------------------------------------
| DSiLL |        689  |        615  |     24,747  |   2,319,064  |
|  DSi  |        380  |        383  |     17,998  |   5,852,050  |
------------------------------------------------------------------
 

[Shaka Khan]

Oscar predicted 40-50k as a P4 bump.

Vita continues to underperform it seems.

[Himu]

good lord put ys on 3ds fuck i dont want to buy a vita

[Takao]

It'll be ported to PS3, and PC long before 3DS is ever an option.

[Bebpo]

Yeah, I don't really see Falcom games made for psp being ported to other systems (yes, I know they outsourced a chinese company to make a chinese version of Zero no Kiseki for PC).  Falcom is not going to spend the time to port/rebuild a game on a totally new platform.


Plus one day Himuro will get a Vita, so it's all good.

[Himu]

Maybe if Sony stops treating it like the red headed step child and like an actual product, I will get a vita. It all depends on the next few months and what games are announced for the system. I'm not like you people who buy 300 dollar systems with no games and then bitch where the games are at. I've only done that once and with the Wii.

[Bebpo]

I said on the gaf thread that yeah, the bump in HW was too low.  Vita has a price problem.  For sure.  No game, despite how much demand there is for it, will push the Vita past 40k weekly in 2012 because that is the max sales you can get out of $250 portable.  In August Miku will probably give it a 40k bump, in September Ys4r might give it a 30k bump, and depending on the lineup in Oct/Nov they might have more bumps as well (such as Zero no Kiseki DC).  But between those bump weeks it'll go back down to about 10-20k and a bunch of 15k weeks with a 30-40k once a month is still really shitty.

They need to take the loss and drop it a full $100.  At $150 the Vita would be flying off the shelfs, especially in August/Sept when more games are coming out.  The problem is Sony is slow and careful.  I'm sure the first price drop (if it even comes in 2012) will be like $30-50 off making it $200-$220.  Which is still going to be too much I think if they want to catch up to the 3DS in popularity.

TGS will be interesting though.  In August/Sept you should start to see the Oct/Nov/Dec lineup for the Vita and then at TGS you should see the Q1/Q2 2013 lineup for the Vita.  If the Vita dies, those are going to be the final games for the system.  If they announce some good titles during those months Vita has a chance, but they need to price drop before those hit.  If I were Sony, for each major game I would do a new color, bundle, and for the first set of major games I would time a price drop along with the release date.

Maybe if Sony stops treating it like the red headed step child and like an actual product, I will get a vita. It all depends on the next few months and what games are announced for the system. I'm not like you people who buy 300 dollar systems with no games and then bitch where the games are at. I've only done that once and with the Wii.

Yeah, I agree.  I'm going by the optimistic assumption that the library will continue to grow and get good jrpgs and the type of games you enjoy.