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[daffy]

pretty awesome

 

[Deadly Joker]

And you can't even change the goddamn battery.


:|

Wait, are you serious?

This can't be true. What an epic failure.

 

[Emitan]

And you can't even change the goddamn battery.


:|

I hate this trend. Battery dies? Oh well. Send in your whole system instead of just buying replacement part.

 

[antonz]

about the vita's accessories

did they show a hdmi to tv cable?

no

 

[Jarmel]

About the battery life, 5 hours max? Is lower than some high end smartphones (that can go half a day at the most). That's no bueno.



Yikes.

How many smartphones can run games for 5 hours? Any game starts whipping the battery on my iPhone 4 like a scene from Roots.

 

[lowrider007]

Holy shit. How is that possible? I am assuming level 5 brightness and Wifi? I put several marathon session into OoT and never got less than 3

Yes I do have the screen set to max as any lower and it's tints to yellow, the brightness settings of the 3DS are not the same as the DSi, my middle setting for the screen on my DSi is equal in brightness to my 3DS at max brightness, I think it's becuase it's harder to light up the stereoscopic screen, not sure entirely.

 

[Poimandres]

3DS has the same AND a memory card?

Really want to see the 3DS haters eat crow now.

I don't think anyone was expecting better battery life than the 3DS.

Those memory card prices though... no thank you!

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Wait, are you serious?

This can't be true. What an epic failure.

http://www.destructoid.com/e3-embedded-battery-no-video-out-for-playstation-vita-203422.phtml

The battery will be embedded because of the rear touch pad (and PSP piracy)

 

[googleplex]

Unless its just DLC unlock keys, I can't imagine gamecards coming with anything more than the tiny bit of EEPROM that is also available to all DS and 3DS titles, basically enough to save settings and progress for most games.

DS used NAND flash and larger chips if a game needed more room to save.

I remember reading that a certan percentage of the game cart is always reserved for game saves and DLC, reguardless of initial size.

 

[Chuck Norris]

Its like we go through this with every system ever made, people bitching about accessory prices and battery life

 

[vall03]

sorry if this has been asked and answered already but is there an official confirmation that the Vita is region-free?

 

[Deadly Joker]

http://www.destructoid.com/e3-embedded-battery-no-video-out-for-playstation-vita-203422.phtml

So if your battery dies, you have to send the whole unit in?

What. The. Fuck.

 

[Jin34]

Don't ever buy a 3DS then, I get about 2 hours out of mine with 3D enabled in OOT.

Jesus what brightness are you playing on, I play at 2 and get 3+.

 

[jackdoe]

How many smartphones can run games for 5 hours? Any game starts whipping the battery on my iPhone 4 like a scene from Roots.

Yep. Which is why when you're traveling, you generally don't want to start playing phone games (if you don't want to go looking around for an outlet).

So if your battery dies, you have to send the whole unit in?

What. The. Fuck.

The Apple Way TM. If they charge you $80 for a battery change of course.

 

[Key2001]

The yen to dollar doesn't stray to far with Sony right? So $25 $35 $60 and $100? I'll pick up the 16GB and just deal with transferring via PC.

Most accessories, games, etc. are cheaper outside of Japan. The RRP of the Vita memory cards are within the MSRP/RRP of other memory, specifically the micro sdhc and micro M2 cards(the ones around the same physical size).

 

[antonz]

Its like we go through this with every system ever made, people bitching about accessory prices and battery life

Not really because only Sony insists on everyone using their brand of memory cards etc. I can go down to the 99 cent store and buy some cheap ass memory card and it will work in the 3DS

 

[PumpkinPie]

What type of memory card are they using? Have they invented a new format to get more money out of us?

 

[cw_sasuke]

Don't ever buy a 3DS then, I get about 2 hours out of mine with 3D enabled in OOT.

2 hours ? Your 3DS is defect.

 

[lazybones18]

Same avg battery life as a 3DS, but shorter charging time

Guess I'll be waiting a while then

Spoiler

or won't be getting the handheld at all

 

[Deku]

I remember reading that a certan percentage of the game cart is always reserved for game saves and DLC, reguardless of initial size.

If they are using the same 3D rom tech as the DS/3DS games, that would be impossible without a separate chip to save games.

Currently, all of the 3DS/DS game card do come with a tiny bit of saving capacity on a separate chip, so all games will have save capability.

The change with 3DS is games with DLC and lots of custom stuff like player content have a separate save file on the SD card.

 

[Castor Krieg]

Wa-huh? Um, I have less than 0 interest in the 3DS right now, by 2013 when the 3DS non-fucked edition comes out hopefully that battery life will have improved.

I was on the other hand pretty keen on getting a Vita hence the comment.

Most people play their DSs and PSPs at home, hooked to power cable. Sony and Nintendo learned that, battery life doesn't make-or-break the handheld anymore.

 

[Jarmel]

Its like we go through this with every system ever made, people bitching about accessory prices and battery life

I know right?

I remember so many complaints about the battery life on this.

 

[Live Free or Die]

Memory card 4GB ¥2,200
Memory card 8GB ¥3,200
Memory card 16GB ¥5,500
Memory card 32GB ¥9,500

:<

I see nothing wrong with those prices.

 

[Gamer @ Heart]

Can someone give me a quick refresher on how the battery was used to hack the PSP

 

[friskykillface]

PSV Launch Titles


Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3

Ridge Racer (working title)

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

Hot Shots Golf Next


PSV Work in Progress Titles

Everything else.

if i import, i'll get those

bummer about the memory card prices, my wallet lol

 

[THE-Pink-Dagger]

Stop complaining all of you, the Vita is very cheap for what it is, so they charge us with the Memory Cards, the price for the 32gb Memory Stick is not THAT expensive. And lol at those already bashing it when you were drooling over it a couple of months ago. Ah haters gonna hate.

 

[Ysiadmihi]

Why would they charge so much for memory cards? Jesus christ.

 

[Gamer @ Heart]

I see nothing wrong with those prices.

You kidding? In any other format, they are overpriced.

 

[Dr.Palutena]

so i'm hoping only a small amount of game cards will require a mem card. that way in can buy a 8/16 gig and just have it for d loads

 

[lowrider007]

2 hours ? Your 3DS is defect.

You serious?, full brightness I'm getting just over 2 hours last time I checked, I charged the system fully first when I bought it.

 

[antonz]

Why would they charge so much for memory cards? Jesus christ.

Sony makes their own specific brand and forces people to use it on their device so in that way they get to dictate prices. They basically scrapped the bottom of the barrel for anything and everything they could remove from the Vita to reach 249.99 and now they wanna make some cash

 

[googleplex]

Why would they charge so much for memory cards? Jesus christ.

Because thier making little to no money on hardware.

Seriously, how could none of you see this coming?

 

[Castor Krieg]

Can someone give me a quick refresher on how the battery was used to hack the PSP

By changing the electric circuit on the battery you were able to put PSP into service mode. This was meant to be used in service centers to unbrick your PSP, but hackers used it to make custom firmware, and allow non-signed ISO images of PSP games to run on PSP.

 

[Jarmel]

I see nothing wrong with those prices.

...... You're full of shit if you don't see anything wrong with that. Either that or you're wearing a blindfold.

 

[OldJadedGamer]

Stop complaining all of you, the Vita is very cheap for what it is, so they charge us with the Memory Cards, the price for the 32gb Memory Stick is not THAT expensive. And lol at those already bashing it when you were drooling over it a couple of months ago. Ah haters gonna hate.

People always seem to forget that drooling happens before all the details are final.

 

[Averon]

And you can't even change the goddamn battery.


:|

Blame rampant PSP piracy for that. I don't expect replaceable HDDs or the use of third party thumb drives in the PS4 either for the same reason.

 

[Gamer @ Heart]

By changing the electric circuit on the battery you were able to put PSP into service mode.

Clever. Thanks

 

[panty]

So only one person said something about a value/family/whatever pack? I bet there will be packs available which include memory cards and they will be cheaper than buying a memory card individually.

Not surprised about the other negativity against Sony/Vita.

So if your battery dies, you have to send the whole unit in?

What. The. Fuck.

You send the console to Sony and they change the battery for you and send it back. If that doesn't take a whole lot of time, what's the problem? And how often would you change your batteries, most people never.

 

[Dr.Palutena]

Because thier making little to no money on hardware.

Seriously, how could none of you see this coming?

As was told to me and many others about region locked 3ds , "yes people saw this coming , that doesn't mean we still aren't gonna be upset/ complain about it when it's revealed to be true".

 

[madmaxx350]

...... You're full of shit if you don't see anything wrong with that. Either that or you're wearing a blindfold.

Or he has the money to pay though honestly those prices are too high.
at least scrap the 4g and go 8 16 32 64 with that same price distribution.

 

[Gamer @ Heart]

about the vita's accessories

did they show a hdmi to tv cable?

There is no video out according to some articles around e3

 

[Zep]

Sony makes their own specific brand and forces people to use it on their device so in that way they get to dictate prices. They basically scrapped the bottom of the barrel for anything and everything they could remove from the Vita to reach 249.99 and now they wanna make some cash

Isn't that how its always worked? Microsoft and Nintendo are guilty of things just as bad as these memory card prices.

 

[Key2001]

...... You're full of shit if you don't see anything wrong with that. Either that or you're wearing a blindfold.

He is right when you compare the RRP/MSRP between the two. The RRP/MSRP is around the same or higher for micro sdhc/micro M2 cards than it is for the Vita cards(both cards that are around the same physical size).

 

[Hyuga]

did they show a hdmi to tv cable?

???

 

[Izayoi]

I definitely called the highway robbery on the proprietary memory forever ago and remember many people attacking me for saying that it was going to be priced fucking ridiculously.

I see nothing wrong with those prices.

What.

 

[googleplex]

So if your battery dies, you have to send the whole unit in?

What. The. Fuck.

Do you have any ideal how the removable/Pandora battery fucked over the PSP? Of course the Vita's battery is locked down.lol

 

[Deadly Joker]

You send the console to Sony and they change the battery for you and send it back. If that doesn't take a whole lot of time, what's the problem? And how often would you change your batteries, most people never.

When I go on long trips, I usually take a spare PSP battery with me. I then get double the battery life.

With Vita I can not do this.

 

[RoboGeorgeForeman]

Definitely not getting a Vita if they're going to be pulling this kind of bull (especially since Gravity Daze and Shinobido 2 are the only Vita exclusives that I care about). I don't have the money for this kind of shit anyway.

 

[rollingstart]

Amazing how a lot of the Vita's air was sucked away in an evening. Still looks like the best handheld but the management of the thing is embarrassing.

they absolutely needed internal or an included memory card. any hope of a downloadable games network is already handicapped by Sony's negligence.

And you can't even change the goddamn battery.


:|

that is not necessarily a bad thing as it allows more flexibly with the hardware design. not good either, but just not strictly negative.

the battery life, and lets be fair and only shave off an hour, is comparable to the PSP/3DS. I'm not one to care that much about battery life problems but it's still pretty awful all around.

 

[Duffyside]

Not very smart to have no internal harddrive space. How do you guys expect people to buy games from your online store? Y'know... the future of the fucking market?