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New Vita Press release - games list, battery life ('3-5 hours'), memory card info
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Zoramon089 said:
I don't really understand why you equate being able to handle a video stream to being able to run a game. Obviously the PS3 is capable of running a 1080P video stream off a bluray but I think we can all agree that there are quite a few games with pretty bad load times running off a bluray.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Luigiv said:
Could always just add it to the side.
With a third analog stick.
Realistically I think its probably an official Sony branded USB AA battery powered external battery pack or something of that nature.
Callibretto
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somehow I got this feeling it's gonna be really expensive, I imagine it'll attach to the back of Vita covering the rear pad, and to compensate, the external battery will have it's own rear pad to use, and that could ad up the cost.Kambing said:
rollingstart
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I'm guessing it will look like the Monster Hunter PSP with two large grips on each end, leaving the middle exposed for the back touch pad.
trying to find a good picture of it
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trying to find a good picture of it
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Gouda Jouji
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This is the external battery isn't it?
Sony call it the "Portable Charger", it was announced along with the other Vita accessories but has "TBA Spring 2012" date attached to it.
Sony call it the "Portable Charger", it was announced along with the other Vita accessories but has "TBA Spring 2012" date attached to it.
sixteen-bit
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Interesting, but aren't there universal devices that do this already?Gouda Jouji said:This is the external battery isn't it?
Sony call it the "Portable Charger", it was announced along with the other Vita accessories but has "TBA Spring 2012" date attached to it.
ConradCervantes
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Battery life predictably sucks, but like most others, I'll be at home playing mostly with the AC adapter attached, so it's not an issue for me. Battery tech does need a breakthrough, though. It seems like we've plateaued on this years ago and haven't made any upward progress since.
Memory sticks on the other hand will be a problem if they're as ridiculously priced in America as they are in Japan. I understand Sony is doing consumers a favor by selling the Vita at a loss, but there's a line to be crossed with how far they can go with their pricing. I'll probably be buying most of my games physically, so I only hope most of the games I buy can save data on the cartridge itself.
All in all, it's a great time for portable gaming right now with the Vita and 3DS. Dedicated gaming handhelds can still be viable in this economic climate, they just need to be shown the proper respect by developers and showcase great production values.
Memory sticks on the other hand will be a problem if they're as ridiculously priced in America as they are in Japan. I understand Sony is doing consumers a favor by selling the Vita at a loss, but there's a line to be crossed with how far they can go with their pricing. I'll probably be buying most of my games physically, so I only hope most of the games I buy can save data on the cartridge itself.
All in all, it's a great time for portable gaming right now with the Vita and 3DS. Dedicated gaming handhelds can still be viable in this economic climate, they just need to be shown the proper respect by developers and showcase great production values.
Any idea on the type of OLED the Vita is using? All it says in the press release is OLED.
I doubt it'll use Super AMOLED Plus (I think it's only on Samsung phones at the moment) but I hope it's at least uses Super AMOLED. Regular AMOLED is still good, but it's too reflective in the sun.
I doubt it'll use Super AMOLED Plus (I think it's only on Samsung phones at the moment) but I hope it's at least uses Super AMOLED. Regular AMOLED is still good, but it's too reflective in the sun.
Spinning Plates
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MesserWolf
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Ydahs said:
250
Smartphones with less features and power cost as much as 5-6-700 .
DaSorcerer7
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MesserWolf said:
and they also have internal memory, lets not forget that.
Oled.info just says they're using an amoled display, meaning an active matrix oled screen. It has nothing to do with the marketing terms samsung uses for their displays, such as super amoled plus. That's just a marketing stunt used for their amoled screens in order to distance them from the old ones that were just called amoled. They're all amoled screens.Ydahs said:
Yeah, price is undoubtedly a factor though a SAMOLED would have been nice (brighter, more energy efficient and better in the sun). Maybe it'll have a better screen in a revision.MesserWolf said:
SAMOLED+ might be a marketing term, but it's still the best mobile OLED screen on the market today. Would have been nice to have a screen that's equivalent to my SG2's screen, but anything less is still good, considering the price of this thing.°°ToMmY°° said:
funkystudent
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I think ill probably wait for the hardware revision this time.
I think its probably smart of sony to get some extra cash out of the hardcore early adopters but I just know a vita with better battery life and cheaper memory cards or internal memory is only a year r 2 off.
I think its probably smart of sony to get some extra cash out of the hardcore early adopters but I just know a vita with better battery life and cheaper memory cards or internal memory is only a year r 2 off.
MesserWolf
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250 + 50 of the memory is still much cheaper than 5-6-700 . much much cheaper.DaSorcerer7 said:
At that bandwith you might as well just use SDTV - the 720P quality will be too poor for resolution to give any real benefit.Zoramon089 said:
Anyway - games aren't video-players, they don't use bandwith in the same manner. A simple question you can ask for game-loading is "how long would it take to fill up 512MB" and work from there on what would be a good read-speed.
Callibretto
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funkystudent said:
no doubt revision will come, but I don't think it's a mere one years off, I think 2 years at the fastest, how many years between psp 1000 and 2000?
lazybones18
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The addition of an external battery might make me change my mind on holding out on the Vita. Just waiting for the pricing for the peripheral and how many extra hours come from it
Fox_Mulder
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funkystudent said:
I think at least 2 years...
Fox_Mulder
Rockefellers. Skull and Bones. Microsoft. Al Qaeda. A Cabal of Bankers. The melting point of steel. What do these things have in common? Wake up sheeple, the landfill wasn't even REAL!
Callibretto said:
2 years later
funkystudent said:
Don't worry about it. It's just a battery pack. Would a hardware revision REALLY make you wait ? Every product gets a hardware revision (360slim, PS3slim, PSP2000 PS2slim). You know it's coming so why even think about it.
Should I not have bought my 360 at launch because I knew a slim version would drop years later ?
To miss out on 2 years of VITA gaming because a version with a larger battery is coming out years down the line, when you could just get the battery pack on day 1 if you so need it, is pathetic. You are simply looking for excuses not to buy.
DaSorcerer7
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CorrisD said:
no.
Chittagong
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Thought this was threadworthy, and didn't see it posted in the Vita TGS megathread.
While the hardware box is fairly appalling, for software they seem to be taking a page of the Xbox book in claiming a colour - Blue.
I think this will work well for them, as their most successful period was blue (PS2) and it will distance from the red period of fail (early PS3). It'll be interesting to see if this will translate over to home consoles.
More pics:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/16/visualized-ps-vita-in-eight-unlikely-colors-mockup-game-cards/
EDIT: Haha, I fail in making threads.
While the hardware box is fairly appalling, for software they seem to be taking a page of the Xbox book in claiming a colour - Blue.
I think this will work well for them, as their most successful period was blue (PS2) and it will distance from the red period of fail (early PS3). It'll be interesting to see if this will translate over to home consoles.
More pics:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/16/visualized-ps-vita-in-eight-unlikely-colors-mockup-game-cards/
EDIT: Haha, I fail in making threads.
THE-Pink-Dagger
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I hope that like the PS3, the Jap Vita will have English, saw the Uncharted trailer in Japanese and it's terrible, but I really doubt they would put only one language on the cartridges (trying to convince myself lol) right?!
Callibretto
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awesome gravity daze cover, hope they don't mess it up for US cover.
Samsung is leading with AMOLED technology. They already have a 5.3 inch AMOLED panel with a resolution of 1280x800, which will be used in their new Samsung Galaxy Note device, released before the end of 2011.gcubed said:
And of course these phones are more expensive than the Vita, because they actually make a profit unlike Sony which is selling it at a loss or breakeven.
Errrr, no, just no. Super-AMOLED-plus is just marketing speak. The technology is called AMOLED and the rest is marketing phrases to specify certain variations from certain manufacturers.Ydahs said:
Sony actually makes stuff like:
http://www.oled-info.com/sony-pvm-2551md
http://www.oled-info.com/sony-bvm-f250f170
Overview: http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-monitors/cat-oledmonitors/
Actually Sony's OLEDs are likely better than Samsung. Colour accuracy on SGS-II, banding, consistent white point?? Ahem, Samsung, ahem... Sony took the high route and the technology fallout for the Vita screen from those is reportedly impressive.