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http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012...next-gen-brain-training-to-ps-vita-this-fall/

Launching this fall, Smart As is a social brain-training experience that will put your brain to the test with 20 unique, engaging, tactile and highly interactive puzzle games. This next-gen puzzle game will also enable you to share your stats with players from around the world using a robust set of social and connective features.

Produced by XDev Europe, Smart As takes full advantage of PS Vita’s touchscreens, cameras and Augmented Reality capabilities to deliver Daily Training challenges featuring fun arithmetic, logic, language and observation-based puzzles. Your scores from each puzzle are used to calculate your overall Brain Power and anybody at any skill level can get in on the fun. The more you play, the better your chances are of increasing your Brain Power score and unlocking new puzzle games.

The best part about Smart As is that it’s not just a brain training game; it’s a social experience. Once you’ve earned your daily Brain Power score, you can go online to see how smart you are compared to your friends, people that you’ve met through “near,” players in your city, country, continent and the entire world using the Smart As leaderboards. You can even post your Brain Power scores to Facebook to boast about your cerebral superiority. Using PS Vita’s “near” feature, you can also drop off puzzles for nearby users and pick up new challenges left by other players.

When you play Smart As on the go using PS Vita’s Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, you’ll have the opportunity to unlock even more challenges in different regions with the Street Smart mode. Simply by competing in as many regional challenges as you can, you will get to prove that you are smarter, more travelled and better connected than your friends.
Watch on the video above for an exclusive sneak peek at Smart As in action, and check back soon for more Smart As news.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O4LtBAqiJc

Lock if old, etc.

 

[deejay8595]

Read it as "Smart ass" at first lol

 

[krystallinity]

So...it's Brain Age with leaderboards?

Just another example of Sony's "innovation."

 

[alr1ght]

Read it as "Smart ass" at first lol

i think that's intended.

 

[jman2050]

 

[massoluk]

U gotta be kidding me.... Smart ass?

 

[Oni Jazar]

So...it's Brain Age with multiplayer?

Just another example of Sony's "innovation."

Just another example of a Junior member's "contribution".

 

[perfectchaos007]

So...it's Brain Age with leaderboards?

Just another example of Sony's "innovation."

ouch

 

[Criminal Upper]

This is pretty much undefendable.

 

[botty]

Who is this supposed to appeal to? Surely not the skaters, and models who own Vitas.

Edit: Oh, it appeals to me.

 

[GDGF]

wow

 

[Adr1an]

So...it's Brain Age with leaderboards?

Just another example of Sony's "innovation."

And we're off.

 

[Patapwn]

This is pretty much undefendable.

Why would it require defense?

 

[FoneBone]

Not entirely new, this was shown waaaaayyyy back at the "NGP" reveal in January 2011.

 

[Speedymanic]

So...it's Brain Age with leaderboards?

Just another example of Sony's "innovation."

Meow.

Just another example of a Junior member's "contribution".

Dude's not wrong.

 

[BurntPork]

This is fucking hilarious.

 

[ffdgh]

sounds interesting.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Let's see the product before we vaporize it, GAF.

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

I don't even know what to say at this point.

 

[Tenck]

Just another example of a Junior member's "contribution".

Member being a member.

Also, dude is correct.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Just another example of a Junior member's "contribution".

Yeah, junior. How dare you post a humorous observation, junior. Now go back to the basement with the other dirty junior members, junior!

 

[chickdigger802]

From the comments it doesn't seem to be free.


Meh.

Sony got a plan right? Right?

 

[Metalmurphy]

Guys please... there's thousands of "brain age" like games already, and there's been so for ages (pun intended).

Let it rest.

 

[jman2050]

Let's see the product before we vaporize it, GAF.

That's what they said when ASBR rumors started coming out...

 

[StoppedInTracks]

Just another example of a Junior member's "contribution".

He is not exactly wrong. And you act like a douchebag.

 

[M.D]

Guys please... there's thousands of "brain age" like games already, and there's been so for ages (pun intended).

Let it rest.

Nintendo should sue

 

[Kazerei]

Now all we need is LittleBigCrossing

 

[megalowho]

I'm not quite sure how I feel about ellipses in titles.

 

[Metalmurphy]

Nintendo should sue

They probably weren't the first either.

 

[Loudninja]

Guys please... there's thousands of "brain age" like games already, and there's been so for ages (pun intended).

Let it rest.

They wont.

 

[base shagohod]

Yeah, junior. How dare you post a humorous observation, junior. Now go back to the basement with the other dirty junior members, junior!

haha


Social gaming is the future, etc. etc.

 

[pantsmith]

Things Nintendo did not invent:

Solving puzzles.

 

[jump_button]

but really what sony doing geez this is so 2006

 

[The_Darkest_Red]

Not entirely new, this was shown waaaaayyyy back at the "NGP" reveal in January 2011.

I thought it sounded familiar.

 

[grimshawish]

We need a 'Lament for Sony'.

 

[NFreak]

Give me Wake Up Club not this garbage. I guess it looks fine for what it is although I still find it funny.

 

[the chris]

Just another example of a Junior member's "contribution".

Yea, what an a-hole thinking his opinion means as much as yours just because he hasn't been a member as long as you have.

 

[Captain Tuttle]

So...it's Brain Age with leaderboards?

Just another example of Sony's "innovation."

Damn haha!

 

[MarshMellow96]

The full name of the upcoming Vita title is yet to be confirmed, but rumours centre around "Not As Smart As Nintendo".

 

[Satchel]

If only Sony were...

 

[axisofweevils]

Question is, will they be able to release it before Nintendo release Devil Training?

 

[Carl]

The fuck, did Nintendo invent fucking "brain" games or something?

From the comments it doesn't seem to be free.

Why would you expect it to be free?

 

[Criminal Upper]

The full name of the upcoming Vita title is yet to be confirmed, but rumours centre around "Not As Smart As Nintendo".

hahhaa awesome

 

[GrayFoxPL]

 

[Metalmurphy]

The fuck, did Nintendo invent fucking "brain" games or something?

Brain Age was the first real successful one, probably because it had an ad with a celebrity on it. But I'm pretty sure there were other games like it before.

 

[FoneBone]

I thought it sounded familiar.

Yup.

 

[GDGF]

We need a 'Lament for Sony'.

Not sure how the words would go, but the melody would probably sound something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMpXAknykeg

 

[KillGore]

The fuck, did Nintendo invent fucking "brain" games or something?

On GAF-land they did, they also invented electricity, which Sony stole as well.

 

[RockTurtle]

So...it's Brain Age with leaderboards?

Just another example of Sony's "innovation."

The full name of the upcoming Vita title is yet to be confirmed, but rumours centre around "Not As Smart As Nintendo".

 

[erpg]

Sony. Developing social alarm clocks and puzzle games. I understand why they aren't finding an audience.

Why can't they work on interesting apps?