Monster Hunter on here will be amazing *drools*

^Def.

potentially big news:
Double Eleven signs exclusivity deal with Sony

Double Eleven are workign with Tarsier on LBP Vita. D11 were formed by ex-Rockstar Leeds employees, a studio responsible for the PSP GTA's.

Online modes detailed

NEAR
location-based gifting system, which also includes seeing games which others users have recently played and which game is popular in an area. Gifts can also includes challenges which need to be done in certain games.


PARTY
Voice and text chat to others while using different applications, so like cross-game chat. game can be activated within a group and one can have ingame chat override party chat.

LIVEAREA
The PSV OS. Devs/ publishers can customize LiveArea for their games after the initial release.

psv as ps3 controller

PSV has passed FCC, launch imminent.

PSV out 2012 in USA and EU. Japan Dec 2011

Sony Executive Vice President Kazuo Hirai confirmed today that the PS Vita will go on sale in the US and Europe early next year.

Despite a recent price-drop for the 3DS though, don't expect PS Vita to launch at anything less than the confirmed £279 and £229 prices.

"We packed so much into the device and made it very affordable," Hirai said. "There is no need to lower the price just because somebody else that happens to be in the video game business decided that they were going to lower their price."

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1003851/ps_vita_2012_launch_for_us_europe_confirmed_japan_this_december.html

I thought they would have kept this info until Gamescom, but I reckon they thought announcing this now could potentially stop the 3ds price drop news a little.

Cant wait to pick this up in December, though whether to stand in a queue to do so or not... hmmmm

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Id go stand in the queue

We dont get that experience here hahahahaha worth it to do it once

^ you know what Woofels? You are right. I may as well do it once in my life since I am here. Now I just got to hope it launches during the holiday in December.

Hahahaha yea it'll be cool too feel the hype for it in that situation.

Eh im sure it will, with the 3DS launch being a total flop and still no real decent software support for the rest of this year and and it being the holiday season, i doubt sony will miss this chance too strike lol

It really is odd that Sony are not doing all they can to get the PSV out in the west for the holiday sales. I also see that the 3D monitor for the PS3 will only release on New Year's eve, another odd decision.

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Id rather they take their time and avoid faulty batches lol

erg dont put me off with failed batches... now i have that in my head hahaha

Magius said ...

It really is odd that Sony are not doing all they can to get the PSV out in the west for the holiday sales. I also see that the 3D monitor for the PS3 will only release on New Year's eve, another odd decision.

I think its obvious that they hav supply issues. Jpn is the smallest of the major markets.as for the tv thats a placeholder date.

http://playstationlifestyle.net/2011/08/11/disgaea-3-return-to-launch-alongside-the-vita-trophies-confirmed/
Disgaea 3 is a launch title with bonus content and trophy support. Also trophies forps3 and vita are linked.

http://www.ps3news.com/psp-ps-vita-news/ps-vita-social-apps-new-games-specs-revealed-at-gamescom/

Its official. PSV has 512ram and 128vram

I'm actually looking forward to this, specially since i want to get a new psp

Strangely enough so am I. Strange because after the first 6 months I probably never turned my PSP 2000 on and eventually sold it about 3 years later. The problem we, as South Africans, have with many of these portable entertainment devices is that we do not use public transport, so the opportunity to use them is very limited. I was in the UK recently and on the tubes and trains everyone is busy reading on their Kindle, playing games on their phones or listening to their iPods.

Thats because it will be a target. We don't wana get robbed

^^ So what you're saying is if you werent afraid of being robbed you'd play psp while driving... Scary thought...