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Vita PSN Game & Service Thread | May 2013 | Lovecraftian Wasteland

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201305/13-065E/index.html

“PlayStation 3” continues to deliver stable hardware and software sales, and Sony will continue to reinforce the business’ position as a stable source of profit. In particular, the Company will seek to grow sales of content and services through PlayStation Store and contribute to profit. For “PlayStation Vita” (“PS Vita”), the Company will aim to secure further sales and profit through various hardware sales initiatives and the introduction of compelling software titles. The next generation platform, “PlayStation 4” (“PS4”) will launch this year-end holiday season. PS4 will deliver a quality gaming experience only possible through a dedicated gaming system, and will also enable smartphone and tablet users to share in the enjoyment of PS4, even without owning one themselves. Furthermore, customers who own both PS4 and PS Vita will be able to experience new services and game entertainment. Sales of digital downloads are increasing rapidly as the delivery of game content transitions from disc media to sales over the network. The Company is also working towards streaming PlayStation games by leveraging the cloud technologies of Gaikai Inc., acquired last year. This would enable the PlayStation experience to be enjoyed across a wide range of products, providing significant opportunities for further business expansion. As a result of these measures, Sony will target sales of 1 trillion yen and operating income margin of 2% in the game business in FY14. Going forward, Sony aims to significantly expand its business model around PS4, to transition the business to further growth in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016 (“FY15”) and beyond.

The mobile, imaging and game businesses will continue to be the core businesses that drive Sony’s electronics business growth. Sony is projecting that approximately 65% of total sales and approximately 80% of operating income for the entire electronics business will be generated by these three businesses by FY14.

I want E3 tomorrow :(
 

Lan_97

Member
Played a few minutes of Ratchet FFA. I knew I was in for a mess the moment I saw the squashed artwork on the bubble. I liked the game on PS3 and was looking forward to the Vita version. What a disappointment.
 

RpgN

Junior Member
Not sure if this has been posted before but some vita games have a price drop now on the UK store. That means those prices will remain like this, right? The games are:

Uncharted £20
Gravity Rush £12
WipEout 2048 £12
Smart As £12
Resistance £20
Mortal Kombat £20

I'm not sure if there might have been more games.
 

DigitalOp

Banned
What's crackin, VitaGAF.

Yo, I can't wait for E3. Really need a drop in memory pricing, but these upcoming games sound even more enticing. Having Freedom Wars (Panopticon) to look forward to in 2014 sets the mood. I hope the new announcments aren't primarily 2014 releases though. (It looks like most could be)

Sorry for anyone who bought RaCFFA. Damn shame.

Still playing Soul Sacrifice so just holla at me. Once I get more pacts Ill start hosting matches.
 

Dec

Member
Even releasing a port that bad is kind of gross.

Double image compression isn't doing it any favors but even without it, IQ, textures and apparently frame rate are worse than PSP level.
 

Groof

Junior Member
The more I hear about QForce the sadder I get... I was really looking forward to a new Ratchet & Clank. There's no hope for this title, is there?
 

Carl

Member
Not sure if this has been posted before but some vita games have a price drop now on the UK store. That means those prices will remain like this, right? The games are:

Uncharted £20
Gravity Rush £12
WipEout 2048 £12
Smart As £12
Resistance £20
Mortal Kombat £20

I'm not sure if there might have been more games.

Bargain
 
After playing more of the Men's Room game one of the big flaws is there's various objectives to complete, but once you've completed them you don't get new ones until you quit your current game and start a new one.
 
After playing more of the Men's Room game one of the big flaws is there's various objectives to complete, but once you've completed them you don't get new ones until you quit your current game and start a new one.

Yes, that is not really a good way to implement "progression". However, you can still keep playing for the sake of getting more points and a better spot on the leader boards. It's not as if the objectives are the only incentive to play.

Concerning R&C: how can something like this happen??? With such an iconic Playstation IP, Sony should have been there all the way to make sure that these people know what they're doing. What is it with the Vita that so many developers have problems to even get PS2-level performance out of it? Thankfully, I wasn't really looking forward to FFA because I'd much rather have a regular R&C ... but this? I guess it's back to replaying Size Matters which seems to look about the same.
 

Shoyz

Member
Men's Room's most frustrating aspect for me is that the AI is programmed to purposely try to get into fights. If I don't immediately turn people when they enter they will walk straight into someone heading to the exit, rather than towards the toilet. Annoying!
Also not sure how to deal with floods of people coming in when they walk out so slowly..they naturally converge and there's not much I can do
And of course, the very finicky controls which cancel your input completely if you touch a wall.

Not sure how I'm going to pull off the 15 patrons mission, not sure I feel like bothering..more of a frustrating game than a fun one.
 

Dec

Member
If I buy my wife a Vita could she use the same account and share games? Or is that something technically allowed (I think you can have 2 vitas set up on one account?), but against TOS?
 
If I buy my wife a Vita could she use the same account and share games? Or is that something technically allowed (I think you can have 2 vitas set up on one account?), but against TOS?
You can register your PSN account to two of each console, yeah. It's not like Sony is gonna know your wife is using it instead of you, haha.

Just means you can't play online together. Adhoc might be fine, though.
 
Yes, that is not really a good way to implement "progression". However, you can still keep playing for the sake of getting more points and a better spot on the leader boards. It's not as if the objectives are the only incentive to play.

I don't really care about points or the leaderboard, so it's the only incentive for me to play. Does anyone know how to get more objectives to show up? For some reason I've only got one right now, and that's to serve 12 people in one round. I'm not good enough at the game to pull that off, but I want to unlock the rest of the levels so I need new objectives.
 

SoulFist

Member
Just wanted to pop in and ask what a good price for a 32gb card these days is. I just have my 4gb card and just got PS+. Should I wait til after E3 for a potential memory card price drop?
 

Ran rp

Member
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Past that spaceship part at the beginning, the framerate seems to be closer to the 15-30fps range, but rarely seems to be at 30fps.

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Also level of detail is reeeeally bad. You can see the detail coming in about 5 feet in front of Ratchet:

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That point in front of Ratchet where the grass texture ends is pretty consistent with the distance in front of the character the detail pops in.

Holy mother of incredible wow

Damn... But I can't wait to hear toto opinion on this...

10/10, flagship title, watch out 3DS
 

Massa

Member
Just wanted to pop in and ask what a good price for a 32gb card these days is. I just have my 4gb card and just got PS+. Should I wait til after E3 for a potential memory card price drop?

At this point I'd wait, it's only a couple more weeks. I wouldn't bet on it though.

Current MSRP is $99 but you can find it for $80-85.
 

breakfuss

Member

Oooooooh, ranked #119 on stage 7 in Germinator. I know that doesn't seem all that impressive, but it's the highest I've globally ranked in any game...ever. So, I'm relishing the moment. COME AT ME.
 

VanWinkle

Member
I'm watching the PS4 Meeting again, and Andrew House said something I heard but never really paid attention to at the time because I was so pumped for PS4. He said:

"In fact, the operating system and chipset inside the PS Vita are so powerful, we think it could bring significant value to gamers' living room experiences. We know the potential for expanding PS Vita to the living room is real, and promises to deliver amazing gameplay and multimedia. We'll be talking more about this exciting initiative later this year."

I wonder what he's referring to there. I initially thought he was referring to remote play but they talked about that at the event. He said they would talk more about it later this year.
 
I'm watching the PS4 Meeting again, and Andrew House said something I heard but never really paid attention to at the time because I was so pumped for PS4. He said:

"In fact, the operating system and chipset inside the PS Vita are so powerful, we think it could bring significant value to gamers' living room experiences. We know the potential for expanding PS Vita to the living room is real, and promises to deliver amazing gameplay and multimedia. We'll be talking more about this exciting initiative later this year."

I wonder what he's referring to there. I initially thought he was referring to remote play but they talked about that at the event. He said they would talk more about it later this year.

Vitabox that plugs into the tv to compete with Microsoft ;)
 
Another happy owner of a Vita here, currently playing P4G and Soul Sacrifice and eagerly waiting for Hotline Miami vita. Thanks The Grim Heaper for the great OP, it was a great help.
Suscribed.

Another SCEE sale with no Vita presence. But then I guess the Vita doesn't have fighting games like the PS3's The Lord of the Rings War in the North, so it makes sense.

Damn, still waiting for a sale on Atelier Totori...
Really disappointed that Ratchet title looks so sad.
 

maltrain

Junior Member
Magnetic By Nature could come to PS Vita.

Here it is his project on Kickstarter.

I send them this mail:

"Is there a PS Vita in mind? It would be a perfect fit..."

They answered:

"We would love to have a PS Vita Version. Unfortunately, Playstation is very silent about how much their full dev kit costs. We are planning on getting the mobile dev kit, (which they released for free this summer), but we are pretty sure that this lower end dev kit won't run our game properly, (not powerful enough). We are definitely looking into it though, and will notify our backers if it becomes a possibility. You are right, the Vita is the perfect platform for our game".

So, I contact Shahid via Twitter and he said:

"My email is shahid_ahmad@scee.net, happy to hear from you and help if I can."

So... after some days, the Studio finally answer:

"Thanks very much @shahidkamal and @MaLTRaiN! Email sent! We'd absolute love to be on a Sony handheld of some variety".

So... let's hope this finish right.
 

VanWinkle

Member
Magnetic By Nature could come to PS Vita.

Here it is his project on Kickstarter.

I send them this mail:

"Is there a PS Vita in mind? It would be a perfect fit..."

They answered:

"We would love to have a PS Vita Version. Unfortunately, Playstation is very silent about how much their full dev kit costs. We are planning on getting the mobile dev kit, (which they released for free this summer), but we are pretty sure that this lower end dev kit won't run our game properly, (not powerful enough). We are definitely looking into it though, and will notify our backers if it becomes a possibility. You are right, the Vita is the perfect platform for our game".

So, I contact Shahid via Twitter and he said:

"My email is shahid_ahmad@scee.net, happy to hear from you and help if I can."

So... after some days, the Studio finally answer:

"Thanks very much @shahidkamal and @MaLTRaiN! Email sent! We'd absolute love to be on a Sony handheld of some variety".

So... let's hope this finish right.

You did well, my friend. You did VERY well.
 
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