PlayStation Vita to launch Feb 22 in Europe and US

I'm not and I'm sure the majority of the gaming world are not waiting with open arms based on the pspgo [success] but I feel those prices are way overpriced IMO

Posted:A year ago

Kevin you really think its overpriced for the amount of hardware you get? Gps, six axis two cameras, two touch screens, 5 inch OLED screen, two analog sticks, and powerfull CPU/GPU. Honestly I though it would be much more expensive, and I for one am really excited to get it. It's a mobile ps3, an the psp go was a failure because it was just a small psp with nothing new other than you had to download all the games, and couldn't use your old ones if you had any.

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Posted:A year ago

Well David the 3DS is very powerful as well and people didn't like that pricing either. So I guess we'll all wait and see at this point.

Posted:A year ago

Thats true, but it was originally at 250 like the vita is going to be, and the hardware in the vita is significantly more expensive and more powerfull. So the bang for your buck is much greater with the vita, but will people see that or not. your right only time will tell.

Posted:A year ago

The price is a bad cover up. Overloading the PlayStation Vita with tons of expensive hardware should not be a primary selling point either. Opens up the portable to more hacks i'm assuming and defeats the PS Vita's primary purpose which i'm also assuming since its target is gaming and not a multimedia device however as other comments here and elsewhere say otherwise.

Speaking of all this tech I wounder how it will do heat wise, the original ps3 did have heating problems and the PS Vita is smaller than that trying to compete.

3g data pricing will most likely be similar to the pricing of the higher end smartphones.

Posted:A year ago

The PSP Go was a mistake, period. No way for folks with UMD libraries like me to opt IN to a purchase and no way for anyone to get access to too many decent (but lower selling) PSP games that should have been made available over PSN. The Vita has at least a decent bunch of titles coming or already done. The price point is pretty damn good for what you get UNLESS you only want the Vita for playing games.

Me, I don't give a rats ass about the non-gaming features, but I DO want a Vita because most of the stuff I've seen and played for it is solid. By the way, it's NOT a mobile PS3 and I think it's a mistake to go there for ANY handheld. The experience of holding a system and screen in one's hands is FAR different from sitting on the couch holding a controller with a screen 8 or more feet away. Sure, in terms of power, it's tossing around decent numbers. But as far as the gameplay experience, it's a totally different feel.

Oh, and 3DS comparisons are silly at the end of the day since Nintendo clearly thought 3D would be a bigger selling point than it was (and is). Had Vita shipped with 3D support as a major sales point, I'd bet it would be a big flop after folks got over their eyeballs going dead faster than the system battery...

Posted:A year ago

According to XE.com: 299.00 USD = 190.219 GBP.

So once again I must pay £90 simply because I'm British. I was really looking forward to getting a Vita, but now I'm not so sure.

Posted:A year ago

Lloyd, I agree. They only way to win against these rip-off prices is not to buy.

Posted:A year ago

"it's NOT a mobile PS3 and I think it's a mistake to go there for ANY handheld"

Maybe not, but the games for Vita are being priced at PS3 levels - that I think will be the bigger barrier than the hardware costs. Uncharted is priced at ¥5,980 (£49, $78) a massive jump from DS, 3DS, PSP software pricing and we won't mentioned mobile gaming at all. If those prices do translate across the shores, Vita is going to have a hard time with its attach rates.

Posted:A year ago

There may be plenty of hardware for your money, but for the average potential customer, to play the sort of game you would buy a Vita for, are Sixaxis, GPS and a second touchscreen so important that people would rather they exist than the price goes down by £70. They open up a lot of possibilities for iOS style games, but if that's the sort of game you want to play, you probably would be happy to play on your phone. That extra hardware is only relevant if the majority of the audience thinks it is a must have (like the second stick).

Still, I wonder if it will work out cheaper to import a US one, as I believe they are region free?

Posted:A year ago

Kevin I think you're the only person I've seen complain about the price. Everyone else thinks it's a steal. I would happily have paid more for it, but don't tell Sony.

Posted:A year ago

Marty: Uncharted is priced at ¥5,980 in Japan for the Japanese version. That does not set the price for the U.K., any more than then ¥7,665 retail price of the Japanese Battlefield 3 makes it cost £63.13 instead of £37.97 on amazon.co.uk.

Emanuel: dunno where you got your ideas about hardware, but games need more CPU and memory than media playback. And no, it doesn't "open up the portable to more hacks."

Andrew: the Sixaxis, GPS and a second touch screen cost nowhere near £70.

Posted:A year ago

My point was a bit garbled. When someone commented on the price being high, someone reeled off a list of hardware. The point I was trying to make is that the average player in the Vita target market probably won't care about some of these hardware items, and if not, it doesn't matter if £229 is reasonable if the general public don't want a £229 dedicated potible gaming machine. I know a lot of people here want one, but we are hardly talking about a typical cross section of the population at large in regards to gaming.

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Posted:A year ago

"Marty: Uncharted is priced at ¥5,980 in Japan for the Japanese version. That does not set the price for the U.K"

Hence my use of the words "If those prices do translate across the shores, Vita is going to have a hard time with its attach rates." - which it will.

Posted:A year ago

Why would you think that those prices would be set at current exchange rates when Sony has never done that before with software?

Posted:A year ago