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New PS Vita Units Have Freezing and Touch Screen Issues
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PigSpeakers
Member
I assume this has to do with that other vita thread, but I couldn't find the post in question. Does someone have a link to it?
chickdigger802
Banned
I'm confused... what does kotaku have to do with anything?
version 1.0 (or 1.5 or w/e it's on now) shit ain't perfect, and from what it looks like the OS seems entirely different from xmb stuff.
Never buy day 1. Especially handhelds these days. Price drop before holiday 2012 seems pretty likely.
version 1.0 (or 1.5 or w/e it's on now) shit ain't perfect, and from what it looks like the OS seems entirely different from xmb stuff.
Never buy day 1. Especially handhelds these days. Price drop before holiday 2012 seems pretty likely.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Or the used market is thriving?
Kotaku has a tendency to over sensationalize their stories. Mountains out of molehills and all that.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Well, it should be safer to buy in the US. After all, Japan is the beta tester for what would be a smoother US launch, haha.
Yes, that someone is kotaku. You seem very eager to believe them even though the article contradicts itself. It says that PSVita freezes and can't shutdown and then it explains it's only happens with a specific game and it can shutdown. It also says that PS Vita can't start but then explains that the user might have done something wrong and that the handheld might just be on standby mode. It also uses as source youtube videos... lol
So usual kotaku bullshit that some people will do anything to defend for their own reasons.
Indeed.
Though the funniest one is where it says
All according to the plan.
Translators note: Plan means keikaku
Opus Angelorum
Member
Two contrasts in this thread:
1. People claiming the problem is more widespread than it appears or...
2. People citing the source as a reason to believe there is no problem.
Who is worse? I'll go with the latter.
1. People claiming the problem is more widespread than it appears or...
2. People citing the source as a reason to believe there is no problem.
Who is worse? I'll go with the latter.
It's bad writing, but also pretty much just summing up anecdotal posts, mostly via Twitter. For some reason not much comes up via the official site, but try searching "vita フリーズ" on a twitter app or tweet-specific search site and you get quite a few people complaining about various issues even now, many of which do seem pretty random and inconsistent. Obviously people with problem are more likely to complain so there's no way to tell if this is the rare 1%, or 20% of the userbase, but there's enough people having problems that it's gotten pretty wide-spread over word of mouth, at least online.
IonicSnake
Banned
Or you can accept the fact that this Vita is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
What do you mean, "biblical"?
What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Hirai, real wrath-of-God type stuff!
Exactly.
Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky! Vitas and memory cards boiling!
Forty years of freezing! Earthquakes, volcanoes!
The N-gage rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice! Vitas and 3DSs, living together! Mass hysteria!
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
10/10.
Freaking genius.
demigod
Member
DJ Mizuhara mentioned plugging the USB charger cable in the base. i was on a train so had no power - so wasn't sure what the point would be.
But there we have it - hit power on with the cable in the base and it came on as normal. A bit crappy and almost certainly a weird firmware issue which i duly logged in the official complaints thread
This is the same thing with the PSP. If you botch a pandora battery during setup, you cannot power it up with the battery. You'd have to power it up with the charger and then stick the battery in and unplug the charger and it works. That's probably why they hid the battery this time. Maybe someone can find a way to make pandora's battery #2, lol.
Oh and people need to RTFS. This is because of a bug in a specific software that's causing it. Would you say that the PS3 is faulty because people are lagging to shit in Skyrim and cannot complete the game?
Both of those are correct.
And then here's four more videos with the issue. For more, you can look them up using "PlayStation Vita エラー＆フリーズ"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zch9iEf2vSk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upKSRlaN8is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TerK5Ijs8RU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxtuFQRgTI8
mocolostrocolos
Member
I hope they fix this issues when it comes to the West.
iamaustrian
Member
^ I'm 100% sure that this has nothing to do with the Vita freeze ups etc
well, that does look horrible. sometimes the touchscreen works then not. ugh. I would berserk when that happens a few times to me.
the complete freeze later is just the icing on the cake.
I remember when my PSP went nuts(which happened a lot) I just turned it off and on.
well, that does look horrible. sometimes the touchscreen works then not. ugh. I would berserk when that happens a few times to me.
the complete freeze later is just the icing on the cake.
I remember when my PSP went nuts(which happened a lot) I just turned it off and on.
You do NOT have to wait for the battery to drain. That is bullshit. You can hold down the power button until the unit powers off just like the PSP and, really, like all Apple devices.
Most of those videos show people failing to hold the button for the proper amount of time. It does take longer than you'd expect, but it does work.
Castor Krieg
Banned
What are you on about? This is hardly system-killing flaws, in most cases hard reset solves the problem. I'm sorry, nothing will ever beat X360.
Also, this can probably be resolved with firmware. The 3DS had a lot of crashing issues when I first picked it up. It would very often just throw up a black screen with an error forcing me to restart. It hasn't occurred for a while, however, so it's clear that the problem has been somewhat addressed.
If you could, please provide me a video showing that, with the Vita that is.
During the 'TheRedSunGamer' live, their PSVita froze and they held the button for a few seconds, which worked perfectly fine to reboot it. Since then, I believe they didn't have any issues at all.
sixteen-bit
Member
Hope these hardware and software kinks get ironed out.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Sounds like a SW, not a HW issue. As has been touched upon by more informed people.
Something that will hopefully be patched or fixed by the coming US launch. It's something that is not exclusive to Vita either so it cannot escape the random errors, it seems.
Something that will hopefully be patched or fixed by the coming US launch. It's something that is not exclusive to Vita either so it cannot escape the random errors, it seems.
Neoriceisgood
Member
Best anime meme adaption since "you are already dad".
The Faceless Master
Member
sensationalist headline...
game journalism!
i guess a headline that actually explains the issues instead of overstating them would be too hard...
game journalism!
i guess a headline that actually explains the issues instead of overstating them would be too hard...
DCharlie
Banned
haha - well in this case the weird part is that the USB cable is NOT attached to anything other than the PSV. No power brick, not plugged in anywhere, just NOTHING but the connection to the PSV - lead dangling down.
So i'm guessing there's some sort of "cable attached" sensor that triggers something different in the power on sequence (?!)
Anyways, will be sure to carry a USB cable just incase this happens but would be happier if it was fixed if it is a SW glitch
Dedication Through Light
Member
Odd issue then again, no hardware is flawless. Hopefully its just a once in lifetime type issue or firmware related.
Dead Prince
Banned
oh Schony.
I'm sure it will, and its most likely software that cause the freeze
But the Wii still isn't in HD....
CadetMahoney
Member
I'll have to go with the latter too, but it's a close one/
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