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[Mr_Brit]

What does that mean?

You'll be able to play any H264 video from any source including your ripped blu rays.

 

[Thoraxes]

Let the bitching commen... Oh hey, everything turned out better than expected.

 

[staticneuron]

fantastic news. Thank god.

Seconded!

More ram than PS3 and 360! Sony got game!

I think this helps justify price.

 

[Twinduct]

Don't change Sony!

 

[Risk Breaker]

Perfect. Future-proof'd

 

[ShdwDrake]

Oh yeahh!!

 

[Respawn]

What does that mean?

High Def compression format. So play from any HD source since its standard.

edit:lashed and beaten

 

[btrboyev]

So VITA's camera's are of shit quality just like the 3ds. That's not Sony like.

both front and rear cameras are 640x480.

 

[Boney]

:3

 

[Auto_aim1]

This just makes it more curious why Resistance had such awful textures, after seeing that footage I thought it had definitely got downgraded to 256mb.

From that stream? I couldn't see anything properly, I dunno how you noticed awful textures lol.

 

[Paznos]

What about everyone who said they reduced it to 256MB to have it at the $250 price point?

 

[S. L.]

OMG does this mean most mkvs will play?

only if it supports mkv, but then yes

 

[AranhaHunter]

I was secretly hoping for 1GB+128MB VRAM.......

So no internal storage is confirmed then eh?

 

[Danne-Danger]

*glares at Wipeout*

 

[Zen]

Why not throw 1gb in it? Cell phones are coming with that, and I'm sure the extra room would help in the long run.

Cell Phones have a lot of overhead that Vita doesn't have to bother with. infinity Blade, the most Ram intensive app running on the IOS only usues 78 or so megs of Ram. Even with Phones tha are coming out with 1 gig of ram, mobiles games won't be using that for a long long time.

 

[Mr_Brit]

From that stream? I couldn't see anything properly, I dunno how you noticed awful textures lol.

How couldn't you? Compared to every other Vita game shown the textures looked awful, in fact the whole game looked graphically awful with a shameful framerate to boot.

 

[BigTnaples]

Thank God they did not cut the Ram. Would have been disastrous to the games.

(Imagine if Epic had not gotten their wish with the 360....*nightmare*)

 

[Alexios]

Cell Phones have a lot of overhead that Vita doesn't have to bother with.

Well, we don't know that yet, what kind of multitasking capabilities they have in mind for the OS and such. But it's plenty either way.

 

[Respawn]

What about everyone who said they reduced it to 256MB to have it at the $250 price point?

The crows are flying to their homes as we speak.

 

[VanWinkle]

So VITA's camera's are of s*** quality just like the 3ds. That's not Sony like.

both front and rear cameras are 640x480.

They aren't meant for picture-taking.

 

[chubigans]

So VITA's camera's are of shit quality just like the 3ds. That's not Sony like.

both front and rear cameras are 640x480.

I don't think the 3DS cameras capture anything near 60fps/120fps.

 

[gofreak]

So VITA's camera's are of shit quality just like the 3ds. That's not Sony like.

both front and rear cameras are 640x480.

It's the same tech as pseye. They've prioritised framerate speed, low-light operation etc. over resolution.

I'm sure they COULD have higher res cameras with those characteristics, mind you, but I guess they cost more than Sony could afford to include.

 

[Paznos]

The crows are flying to their homes as we speak.

lol

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

Why not throw 1gb in it? Cell phones are coming with that, and I'm sure the extra room would help in the long run.

Smarts phones also have the incentive of being subsidized by a cellphone contract to offset a normal retardedly high average pricing of $500 smartphones markup, this will not. And it's still more powerful than all over them without the massive OS overhead.

Also most powerful non-contract phone on the market is Virgin Mobile's Motorola Triumph for $300 and this eats it for breakfast.

Though, I would love for Sony to go for broke and the toss in 1GB of RAM.

 

[Hyuga]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE YOU, gofreak!!

 

[Seraphinianus]

From that stream? I couldn't see anything properly, I dunno how you noticed awful textures lol.

Yeah, people who comment on graphics from a fucking stream or youtube piss me off. You can't judge graphics from a low quality stream. You can get a very vague idea about textures and geometry and that's it...and everyone that has two eyes should understand this.

 

[Commanche Raisin Toast]

OMG does this mean most mkvs will play?

PSV would need to support the .mkv file container first. something i don't see happening without a custom app or something. it's a shame my galaxy s doesn't support them, and the VLC app seems like it will never come.

 

[mysteriousmage09]

Awesome news. This bodes well for PS4 tech.

 

[BlazingDarkness]

How couldn't you? Compared to every other Vita game shown the textures looked awful, in fact the whole game looked graphically awful with a shameful framerate to boot.

Shit developer

 

[MightyKAC]

So then that means the Vita has the most RAM out of any console (handheld or otherwise) so far?

Wow.

 

[Krauser Kat]

Really just 512? Dont cell phones already have that much. 1gb is in the bionic coming in sept.

 

[btrboyev]

So then that means that the Vita has the most RAM out of any console (handheld or otherwise) so far?

yes, unless you count the iphone and ipad.

360 also has 512MB of RAM.

 

[M3Freak]

No FLAC.

Fail.

 

[Hyuga]

Why not throw 1gb in it? Cell phones are coming with that, and I'm sure the extra room would help in the long run.

And here they come.... *facepalm*

 

[Orayn]

Really just 512? Dont cell phones already have that much. 1gb is in the bionic coming in sept.

Lots of Froyo Android phones already have 1GB. Bear in mind, though, that gaming systems have very, very low memory overhead compared to a general purpose device like a computer or a phone.

 

[Paracelsus]

Plenty of memory for watered down homeconsole knock-offs.

Oh, wait.

 

[Paznos]

Every cellphone that has 1GB of RAM(Only Motorola's phones) is because of the webtop dock that requires more ram.

*edit*

Ah didn't release the GS2 had 1GB of RAM guess that's the first phone outside of Motorola to have 1GB of RAM that doesn't use it for the laptop dock.

 

[Why would you do that?]

I like the 120fps or 60fps camera. Will be great for AR.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

You'll be able to play any H264 video from any source including your ripped blu rays.

Thanks.

 

[iceatcs]

Very nice specs.

Hopefully it will get more faster QTE games for me

 

[AranhaHunter]

This just makes it more curious why Resistance had such awful textures, after seeing that footage I thought it had definitely got downgraded to 256mb.

nihilistic......

 

[Jin34]

This just makes it more curious why Resistance had such awful textures, after seeing that footage I thought it had definitely got downgraded to 256mb.

Because a system having much better/worse looking games than other games on the same system has never happened before.

 

[Tobor]

Any word on memory card pricing and storage sizes?

 

[Always-honest]

wow, i epect games to look insanely good on a small screen like that.
woaw.

 

[KAL2006]

Supported video
Doea this mean i can put in avi files similar to ps3 or will o have to do long conversions like psp

 

[Kinan]

It's the same tech as pseye. They've prioritised framerate speed, low-light operation etc. over resolution.

I'm sure they COULD have higher res cameras with those characteristics, mind you, but I guess they cost more than Sony could afford to include.

Well they went a "standard" components route with PSV, and, unfortunately, there are no cameras with native Vita resolution directly available. HD camera would be overkill and increase the price, so the next obvious choice was VGA.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Hey look all that GAF bitching and whining and jumping to conclusions about RAM was for not. Well I lol'd.

 

[TacticalFox88]

Sony is doing almost literally EVERYTHING right with the Vita. Shame they likely won't make it for the holidays. :/

 

[CozMick]

Imagine God of War with 512mb+128mb GAF.....God of Fucking WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!

 

[Jin34]

Let the bitching commen... Oh hey, everything turned out better than expected.

Not true, page 1 already had it's first *insert dumb cell phone comparison* post.