Repurposed from the main event thread...
Dat Vita TV...
So I'm surprised they're packing it with a DS3 controller. How is it gonna work with touchscreen stuff on Vita games? I'd have figured a DS4 would be a more sensible choice.
Price is the obvious answer, except that I don't know that I buy that, the DualShock 3 is still way costly (though the markup is always high, and with the death of on-the-couch multiplayer as well as the exclusion of third-party controller licensees there's been no call to drop the price) and there aren't a lot more components in DS4 far as I know that DS3 doesn't have (similar gyros, likely similar BT chip, added touchpad, probably same battery, mostly refinements after that.) They're saving a few bucks putting the old controller in the box, but not that much by my wholly-guessed calculations, and in the long run...
The Vita TV would have been a much more viable product with a controller that could handle the vast majority of titles made for it, now I'm worried that not only will Vita TV exclude some key Vita games, it could hold back new Vita games (not that everybody loves rubbing to uncover the map...) that try to use all the features of Vita but that need to be mindful of both platforms it'll be sold on.