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well thanks for letting me know and sorry for not reading this thread more!

I like th Radec one, but Heihachi's pose is the best set up(if only it were Cole or Drake instead of him).

So apparently in NA, LBP vita had it's street date dropped and gamestops are just selling it. Here in Canada apparently at least one eb games is also confirming they can sell it now but their shipment hasn't arrived yet. * Following the story on neogaf* I have no idea why Sony would just be like " fuck it, it comes out now" but apparently they did.

lol well I guess we will see some rather early user impressions on the game then

@forevercloud: yep Heiachi had the best pose...I would have picked him but felt the others deserved the spot more

Yep multiple confirmations now....the game is available at various places

And I re-state this....this boxart is just fucking awesome

i mean...a 'hand held sackboy'....get it?

Sounds like the original's launch all over again. They never seem to get that right(not really Sony's fault but the retailers this time). Yet that probably is a good thing, people can go get it now.

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2012/09/14/tokyo-game-show-2012-your-questions-please/

Hype train is slowly starting :D

Lol I do like it. I still think they should have called it LBP3 instead of the "PSVita" tag line.

About 6 months ago, I'd have agreed with everything you posted here.  I wanted Sony to buy more first party studios, create more great experiences, have more franchises on the go etc. etc.

I don't feel that way anymore though.

The thing Sony needs to start doing is saving money.  Buying a studio and having to pay the wages for say, 100 new employees, isn't going to save them any money.  They can't even afford to keep fantastic studios like Liverpool open, so I don't think they need to be buying any more.

The way they're doing things now, imo, is a much better strategy.  Have their core studios (Naughty Dog, Santa Monica, Media Molecule, Guerrilla) create the big IP's (Uncharted, God of War, LittleBigPlanet, Killzone).  They hand off the development duties to smaller, third-party studios (Ready at Dawn for God of War, Tarsier for LittleBigPlanet).

This way, they get the best of both worlds.  They get profit from the game & pay the costs, but aren't investing huge amounts of money in a studio they can't sustain.  And the smaller studios get sustained work from Sony if they do a good job with their IP's (i.e. Ready at Dawn, High Impact).

I'm also enjoying how Sony take the IP's from their bigger devs and hand them to the smaller devs for the portable games too.  Like Studio Cambridge did LBP PSP, Sony Bend did Uncharted: Golden Abyss.  Which makes me all the more pissed off that Studio Liverpool shut.  Just give them fucking Gran Turismo Vita, Motorstorm Vita, Infamous Vita.  ANYTHING like that.  Fools.

edit: Although, one thing I think they DEFINITELY need to do is open a new studio in Japan.  Japan Studio isn't enough on it's own (Polyphony don't really count since they're just GT machines).  I think opening a dedicated JRPG studio over there would be an excellent step.

I can has little big planet now? 0o