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Mine is scheduled to arrive on Thursday. I'll probably buy a second DS4 just for the console. Never really wanted one because of the gimped media features but now I'm really excited for it. I mean REALLY excited!



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JRPGfan said:

The fact that you can hack it to play like 99% of all the PS Vita games... makes it a decent device.
Its weird that so many games actually work pretty well, after just unlocking them via the hack.

Why the heck hasnt sony just allowed the PS TV to play all the games from the start?
PS TV sales would go up alot, cause of how cheap it is, compaired to the vita.


A lot of not a lot is still not a lot. It probably costs more money than the estimated trade off in sales to patch in.



JRPGfan said:

The fact that you can hack it to play like 99% of all the PS Vita games... makes it a decent device.
Its weird that so many games actually work pretty well, after just unlocking them via the hack.

Why the heck hasnt sony just allowed the PS TV to play all the games from the start?
PS TV sales would go up alot, cause of how cheap it is, compaired to the vita.

PS TV's sales aren't that important, it doesn't cost them as much as Vita to manufacturer, but hardware has only been an important seller starting from the PS4 from the get go and even then the money is made with software. Especially since its so cheap, its not making that much money at all.

As for game compatibility, Sony's whitelisting process is extensive for Vita games to be on the TV, which gets in the way, and their are also legal issues especially with PSP and PS1 games.



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Wth I did not know about that hack. The PSTV is now on my buy list.



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twintail said:
JRPGfan said:

The fact that you can hack it to play like 99% of all the PS Vita games... makes it a decent device.
Its weird that so many games actually work pretty well, after just unlocking them via the hack.

Why the heck hasnt sony just allowed the PS TV to play all the games from the start?
PS TV sales would go up alot, cause of how cheap it is, compaired to the vita.

Because it's not up to Sony, is up to publishers.


Guess sony should try to have as good third party relations as nintendo did back when they released the GBA adaptor for the Gamecube. Don't recall any third party's complaining about it.

Sony crippled this thing out the door, it wouldn't even play all first party games. I wonder what the real reason was because I doubt the publishers cared.

With this hack I'm interested in one now. Shame they're still not that cheap in aus 



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Blob said:
twintail said:

Because it's not up to Sony, is up to publishers.


Guess sony should try to have as good third party relations as nintendo did back when they released the GBA adaptor for the Gamecube. Don't recall any third party's complaining about it.

Sony crippled this thing out the door, it wouldn't even play all first party games. I wonder what the real reason was because I doubt the publishers cared.

With this hack I'm interested in one now. Shame they're still not that cheap in aus 

3rd parties only give a shit about the vita sales with regard to how it sells their software. If Sony sells 500 billion PS TVs and only 500 thousands copies of COD, because of an exploit that makes COD free, "good" 3rd party relations aren't going to count for crap.

The hack itself doesn't allow for piracy, although further exploits could since this is a backdoor sort of, so there is no way in hell Sony could officially support this, and not take action against this. 3rd party publishers are business, and when it comes to even the possiblity of losing money abandoning a Piracy platform makes sense, especially when you've got so many other platforms to support.



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I was debating on getting one, saw it for like $50 or something.

I'll see if I can find more than 5 games I want on the device.



Sweet! Congrats!



I have two, both hacked lol