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JoeTheBro said:
The PSVITA.TV $99 sku is designed for people with PS3s already, that's true. However people have more than one TV in their house. Apple TVs and Rokus are designed to be on every tv, so why would this be different? Have a PS3 in your entertainment center, and a PSVITA.TV in the living room.
That's my problem with it. Apple TV is $99 and plays content at 1080p and includes a remote with an easy to use UI. I think the PS Vita TV has the potential to take a nice chunk out of the Apple TV crowd, but selling a base unit with no included input device and no 1080p playback means that despite being a far superior piece of hardware, it's functionality is crippled. Again, the easiest fix is to simply include some kind of base method navigating the UI, like a cheap remote.
It's a device that targets a PS3 crowd, when it should be targetted at a mainstream audience, people who don't own PS3s and want a cheap way to enter the PlayStation family.
Vita games are still rendered at 544p, so having 1080p output is pointless when gaming. It's definitely a negative, but a small one at that.
I didn't ask for 1080p gaming (that would be unrealistic), I asked for 1080p video playback. A device that is leaps ahead of Apple TV in hardware specs should be more than capable of 1080p video playback.
Press release already states it can do this. Will have to wait to see how many devices it actually supports though.
I can't find a press release that states this, and my PS VIta still can't do it. This isn't a matter of devices supporting it, it's a matter of PS Vita being able to support it. Any device with network streaming functionality can stream from a network media server.
The memory cards make a killing for Sony. I think we all agree that SD would be better, but that would bump up the device cost.
Sony is not making a "killing" from the memory cards. One memory card would get Sony at most as much revenue as two or three games. I don't think I'm wrong to assume there are quite a bit of people who would buy a Vita and 3+ games if the memory cards were cheap micro sds instead. Sony's original vision was to design an almost unhackable memory card to stop the piracy that plagued the PSP. For the most part, they've succeeded, but punishing honest customers for the misdeeds of pirates is not how you solve the problem.
The PSVITA.TV is launching way before the PS4. Also it is designed at people who already own DS3s. This makes perfect sense. In time it will naturally transition to DS4.
A natural transition to DS4 would be to include the DS4 with the Vita TV instead of the DS3. Including a soon to be obsolete controller makes the transition to PS4 less inviting and makes playing with PS4 friends more of a hassle.
Agreed that it could have been great, but it's also unrealistic to put a camera on the device. We'll see if eventually the PS3 Eye is supported.
It's not quite as unrealistic as you may think given Sony's adroit mastery of swivel cameras. The PS Vita camera is a notoriously cheap and awful camera (but better than the 3DS at least), so I can't imagine having one built-in to be that expensive. Having to purachse and attach one on your own puts it at the same level as the PS3 Eye, meaning one more hassle for the easily irritated casual audience.
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