PSVita (Successor to PSP, was PSP2 then NGP)

[sj33]

I'm pretty sure the preorder packs don't come with a memory card, unless I've missed something. In fact, the contents of the preorder pack seem completely useless bar the nice-looking earphones.

[Cornflakes]

Ups, looks like I mixed it up with the US first edition pack, that one comes with 4GB card and Little Deviants. COnfusing I thought sony would run the same promotion world wide, and not region specific.

[Family Fry]

Ok looks like its back to one account per console with reset required, rather than the workaround.

http://m.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/sony-vita-psn/

[Shozuki]

really crap sony!!! I can only hope for a firmware update and change to that. Which I suspect may happen if the net gets more annoyed!

[elaniel]

Glad I made the decision I did in regards to the PSN Network and using a UK account then.
Is there any word on if this pre-order pack is available everywhere or only at select retailers?

Still baffles me we are about 2 months from launch and no RRP's for the UK have been announced for games or peripherals.

[teddymeow]

Sony have uploaded a digital version of the Vita manual

PSVita Manual

Seems to confirm in the settings that the JPN version can be switched to English language like PSP & PS3.

[MisterBubbles]

Total rubbish Sony, so i buy your games, you make money but i can only play them on one account, this is just asking for CFW to happen, this is getting as bad as Appe telling you how many times and what systems your music you buy can go on, that why i like Google/Android , and Creative MP3 players, please Sony dont become another Apple , or you could lose sales through this, and 3DS region lock sucks too.Customers aren't criminals, so stop treating us like them, the bloody pirates have caused this.

[Bort]

Mood music


VITA! VITA! VITA!

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via - http://pocketnews.cocolog-nifty.com/...a-pch-110.html

[importaku]

LOL so brazen, nothing left to the imagination hehe.

[speedlolita]

So the difference between a 3G and a Wi-Fi model is the 3G board. I imagine they'll eventually sell them as aftermarket products so you can upgrade your Wi-Fi model should you choose to.

Waiting for CFW on this.

[Shozuki]

So the difference between a 3G and a Wi-Fi model is the 3G board. I imagine they'll eventually sell them as aftermarket products so you can upgrade your Wi-Fi model should you choose to.

Waiting for CFW on this.

I really hope it never happens. It killed the PSP and the market as it is it'll kill the Vita. Unfortunately most people use CFW for piracy and nothing else.

[mingo]

already hacked?? not quite... but your wish for CFW might not be so far off....

http://wololo.net/wagic/2011/12/18/day-1-hello-world-the-ps-vita-already-hacked/

[JSR]

I really hope it never happens. It killed the PSP and the market as it is it'll kill the Vita. Unfortunately most people use CFW for piracy and nothing else.

Agreed. If it's hacked, I bet it will be an instant failure.

[sj33]

I think we all agree that piracy is a major problem, but I'm not convinced it 'kills' consoles. In most cases where piracy is cited as causing the death of a console, there are actually much more fundimental causes for the console's unpopularity e.g. the Dreamcast, to a lesser extent the PSP.

[Dogg Thang]

The PSP was popular though. It shifted a serious amount of units. And yet many multi format games avoided the system and many devs seemed to abandon it. I imagine that was at least in part due to the fact that a huge chunk of those units sold only ran pirate games and so never contributed to software sales.

Edit: not sure how accurate or current this list is but, according to a list of best selling consoles on Wikipedia, the PSP has shifted over 70million units while the DC sold about 10million. The PSP seemed far from unpopular, expect with devs and publishers who likely didn't like their games being out there for free so easily - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._game_consoles