OK, I see where you're coming from. So for you this is kind of like a Gamecube Game Boy Player? It allows you to play the games you already enjoy on your handheld on a TV. It just seems expensive for that level of functionality.

As a Vita owner myself, I would just never recommend this product to someone interested in playing Vita games. Those games were designed, in most cases, with the Vita hardware in mind. Not to be played with a Dualshock controller on a TV. Plus, the raison d'etre of any handheld system is portability. You lose all that with Vita TV.

This is the head scratcher.  I think they would have been smarter calling this a PS4 Extender, rather than equating it to the PS Vita. 

Though the big problem with this is the fact that it doesn't fully support the Vita due to the lack of a touch pad, and that likely means it won't fully support the PS4 titles either.  The DualShock controller included with the $150 bundle is essentially a DS3.  If you can use a DS4 with it, and use the touch pad, that would mitigate the problem.

Another problem is the fact that there is no onboard storage, so each person who uses this will have to have their own memory card.  If you already own a PS Vita, cool you can just plug and play, if you don't then it's more money.  If you don't own a PS4, PS3, or PSV then you're looking at close to $200 just to get started with it.  At that price a Wii U becomes a viable option.

Well yeah, I agree.  But PS4 will sell better in the west than in Japan.  That doesn't mean that Sony shouldn't bother to release it over there (your first sentence).

PS: looks like we can press L3 and R3 to bring two different pointers, to emulate front and back touchpads. I would be EASY to implement and will work with MOST games.

At first I thought this sounded great, but the more I thought about I changed my mind. If you don't already have a controller then you will have to pick up that $150 bundle. For that price or just a bit more you can pick up a PS3 which is more fully featured than this and has a better game library (PS3 software >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Vita software).

Sony would've been more consumer friendly had they just added hdmi/tv out to the Vita itself, like they did when moving from the psp 1000 to the 2000. They just released a new Vita at the same pricepoint as the old one and still left out that feature.

It's really for the people that already own a PS3. Think of it like a Roku/Apple TV, that just happens to also have a ton of games. I'd imagine Sony wants one for every TV in your house, except maybe the tv connected to PS4 and PS3.

@TBONE, Oh you!!!!