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Sony: PS Vita our most dev-friendly platform yet (develop-online.net)
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Sho_Nuff82
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Hopefully this ideal transfarrs over to the PS3.
It will be interesting, that's for sure. If they can get a lot of developers on board, and have both solid apps as well as solid games in a broad variety of genres, this thing could be very succesful.
As said above, if they carry over the idea to PS4, they could have an amazing ecosystem of devices.
As said above, if they carry over the idea to PS4, they could have an amazing ecosystem of devices.
madmaxx350
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Yoshida has been the best thing that has happened to Sony in years. Now Sony, 2011 release date plz
sixteen-bit
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That's good to hear.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
vita is gonna be awesome
Fine Ham Abounds
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Man I can't read TRANSFARR without instantly thinking of the Transvaal.
Of course whenever I read Vita I can only think of a Sony commercial with Ricky Martin playing a rhythm game on this thing (yes I know that would be Vida).
Of course whenever I read Vita I can only think of a Sony commercial with Ricky Martin playing a rhythm game on this thing (yes I know that would be Vida).
east of eastside
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The savior of Japan's game industry.
SneakyStephan
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That's not really saying much considering 'emotion engine' and now cell spu's... but yeah, good news.
SolidSnakex
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SneakyStephan said:
I'm pretty sure that the PSone and PSP were on the easier side.
Raitosaito
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jokkir said:Except this:
This is pretty good news. All I want now is good games for it and a good battery life and im set.
At&t gets a lot of hate, but I find service for them in suburban areas a bit better than Verizon.
I can't say the same for urban areas, but it can't be that bad right?
OldJadedGamer
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jokkir said:Except this:
This is pretty good news. All I want now is good games for it and a good battery life and im set.
Worldwide, they had to go with AT&T. Not really a choice for them. My phome has unlimited data and acts like a wifi hotspot so I will get a 3G Vita at a wifi Vita price.
HomerSimpson-Man
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gbovo said:
It was the one thing Sony one way or another was going to go full tilt with, blu-ray.
Nothing overly engineered, or complex about it, it was just expensive as shit when it came out.
You had $500-$600 PS3 that outperformed dedicated $1000 blu-ray players, and continued to do so for a great while. Even now it's still a great blu-ray player because of Sony's ability to upgrade it's functionality like including 3D support without having to buy another dedicated blu-ray player.
Sony took a bath for it. Difficulty didn't do anything to the PS2.
DeliciousDoc
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Wonder if that is also a hint that the psp will stay region free. The yen is still strong so I'd like to save on the hardware at least. Not the mention the price gauging if you don't buy it directly in Japan.
Sho_Nuff82
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Kagari said:
D'oh, that's what I meant.
jokkir said:Except this:
This is pretty good news. All I want now is good games for it and a good battery life and im set.
I agree it sucks but what was the option, T mobile? Or were they going to make a separate CDMA model just for the USA? Please, let's be reasonable here, AT&T sucks but this isn't even a phone we're talking about.
DiscoJer
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klee123 said:
I don't think Sony has blocked much since they let that straight PS1 port of a Harvest Moon game through.
But that is a good question of just what they will allow. There's about a dozen or so developers of Minis that have kits - will they get to make anything they want without concept approval (like has been the case with Minis - which has led to some interesting things like emulated arcade games and lots of casual games) or will they face restrictions?
Blu-Ray isn't what made PS3 difficult to develop for. It was Sony not providing adequate documentation and tools in the first 18-24 months of the PS3's life cycle. Coupled with the fact that Cell was a new architecture that noone knew how to program for, and that you had to use two different compilers for your SPU code, and PPE code, and you get an idea why PS3 was difficult to develop for.HomerSimpson-Man said:
If difficulty didn't do anything to the PS2, then I guess they have no reason to try and make their future consoles and handhelds easier to develop for, and should continue to make them as difficult to develop for as possible, thereby driving away devs and pubs in an increasingly competitive hardware market.... you know, just 'cause.
Yeah, Yoshida is probably the best person in SCE in ages. If the PS4 is easy to develop for, we wouldn't get problems like Last Remnant on PS3 happening.
Good point, however I'm talking about the low budget stuff. The did block Z.H.P from getting a PS3 release.
I suspect it's also Sony's doing which is preventing a lot of 2D shumups from being ported to the PS3 due to Sony's policy of games needed to be full screen.
To be fair though, it didn't affect the PS2 because it was overwhelmingly popular. Whether devs found the system easy or difficult to program didn't matter, since it was the only system available besides the DC.
Kagari said:
Good point, however I'm talking about the low budget stuff. The did block Z.H.P from getting a PS3 release.
I suspect it's also Sony's doing which is preventing a lot of 2D shumups from being ported to the PS3 due to Sony's policy of games needed to be full screen.
HomerSimpson-Man said:
To be fair though, it didn't affect the PS2 because it was overwhelmingly popular. Whether devs found the system easy or difficult to program didn't matter, since it was the only system available besides the DC.
HomerSimpson-Man
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gbovo said:
I'm not saying blu-ray was difficult one, I'm saying blu-ray is the major push that came at the cost of the company when you alluded to "...at the expense of an entire corporation."
If it had a standard DVD drive, it would have the price back down easily for Sony to stomach. When the PS3 was release, because of the competing format HD-DVD, blue-laser diodes were also at a shortage making things worse.
SolidSnakex
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klee123 said:
They're apparently giving Capcom a hard time with bringing MHP3HD to the PS3 in the US. So there issue really isn't with a game being 2D.
SolidSnakex
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klee123 said:
I'm pretty sure that it's a requirement for at least two titles to be included in a remaster in the US. Sony Japan doesn't really care which is why ICO, SoTC, MHP3, MGS PW ect. are all being released on their own.
When I said "...at the expense of an entire corporation", I was alluding to the point that SCE lost console dominance this gen in part due to how difficult, time consuming, and EXPENSIVE, it was for devs and pubs to develop on PS3, thus, shifting the pendulum of development resources towards Xbox360.HomerSimpson-Man said:
Obviously, Blu-Ray played a role in making the PS3 unaffordable initially, but having an overtly difficult console to develop, with little to no support from Sony initially, was a recipe for failure.
I'm glad Kutaragi is gone. He admitted that he doesn't know anything about software development. That isn't the kind of person that should be running a video game corporation. Now SCE can actually listen and consider input from their software devs, when designing a new console/handheld.
Chuck Norris
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Erm Loco Roco? Patapon? Echochrome? On PSP.klee123 said:
Maybe its time to stop living in 2002
I NEED SCISSORS
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Takao said:
Vita is getting a sequel to "car vault"?
DiscoJer
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klee123 said:
I think part of the problem in that case is that Capcom refuses to release it on the PSP in NA.
It would be a terrible precedent for Sony to allow a company to release a PSP remaster, but not the PSP game.
They do want people to buy the Vita, after all, not just wait around for the inevitable Vita remasters (though I'm sure that's going to happen).
outunderthestars
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This is really awesome news. Platform holders need to do everything they can to keep game production costs low.
Come on Sony.... You're doing everything right. Now just announce a release date and please god don't make the memory cards too absurdly expensive....
Come on Sony.... You're doing everything right. Now just announce a release date and please god don't make the memory cards too absurdly expensive....
Chuck Norris said:
Echochrome is 3D.
I guess I did word it wrong since this new article is for Vita, and Sony does have a much more lax policy with the PSP, but my point still stands for the PS3 and fear it will be similar for PS4.
Regardless of any exceptions, Sony has blocked a lot of titles this generation, especially from SCEJ.
east of eastside
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It should also be mentioned that the architecture is going to benefit from easy annual die shrinks and economies of scale more than any other architecture before it, as the chips are going to be fabbed along with millions of other similarly architected mobile chips.
Enabling an eventual slim model at $199 mass market friendly price.
I also envision an Xperia Play 2 (or something better named) based in Vita guts and playing Vita games as an extension of the platform into the mobile space. Perhaps a Sony S3 or S4 tablet following the same strategy.
Enabling an eventual slim model at $199 mass market friendly price.
I also envision an Xperia Play 2 (or something better named) based in Vita guts and playing Vita games as an extension of the platform into the mobile space. Perhaps a Sony S3 or S4 tablet following the same strategy.
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