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Why The Playstation Vita Is The Best Thing To Happen To Me Last Year

GameStyle - Well in a gaming sense at least. Life has been pretty busy this year, I have a six year old son who does hockey training twice a week, as well as playing hockey games. It means I spend more time away from home at this point in my life, than I ever did before. That in turn means less time to sit down with a home console or PC.

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KimikoGaming4137d ago

You will be in a treat for Persona 4 Golden, and it will definitely fill your time going to the hockey games.

It took me 93 hours to get everything I wanted to get in the first playthrough, and I still need to do a second playthrough to be able to get everything and get the rest of the trophies.

izumo_lee4136d ago (Edited 4136d ago )

I need a few more lines to get that 'Hardcore Risette' trophy but for me i spent over 200+ hours on the game to max out some of my most used Personas.

The game made me rememember how great the original game was & it made me sad that a lot of people missed the game cause it came out so late into the life of the PS2.

I even shed a few tears during my playthrough just cause of the heartwarming & brilliant writing of this game. A legendary experience to say the least.

It is a shame that many are not aware of the brillance of the Vita cause of fanboy glasses & just plain lack of knowledge of what is available on the system. There are many many high quality games on the Vita that people fail to see.

vikingland14136d ago

Well said and I agree. There is alot of good gaming to be had on the Vita.

poo3429472947924136d ago

the vita changed my life and made me the man I always wanted to be it sold me on sony and now I hail to kevin buttler tv ads ohhh the joy the joy praise be vita

KimikoGaming4136d ago

Did you know about the lawsuit filed by Sony against Kevin Butler because he was in a video that had Mario Kart in it?

imXify4136d ago

People just can't understand how the Vita is awesome :P

Protagonist4136d ago

Bradley Marsh did ;)

Great article and Bradley just wait until you try Soul Sacrifife... beyond awesome. The demo alone has replay value!

HarryMasonHerpderp4136d ago

Most of my gaming highlights last year were played on my Vita.
I still get excited just thinking about Gravity Rush!.....that sounded wrong.

Hingle_Mcringleberry4136d ago

Failing to see how that sounds wrong =__=

SamPao4136d ago

:D

well sounds like a part of him got excited...

yeah really, I also fail to see how that sounds wrong :D :D its totally justified

Gravity Rush... I would download everysingle extraepisode! got 100% of everything in there. such a great title

Sketchy_Galore4136d ago

After getting a Vita for Xmas I have to agree with most of this article. I've barely touched my PS3 since I got the Vita (but I'm sure that'll change once this year's big titles start appearing or at least once I get Ni No Kuni). Thanks to ps plus I already had an amazing bunch of games to play the moment I picked it up too. From the big hitters like Uncharted and Gravity rush to amazing low key games like Mutant blobs attack but the absolute best thing on it for me though is the ability to play PS1 classics. They look great on the little screen with bilinear filtering and it's great to be able to lie in bed for half an hour before sleeping and do a little questing in a classic JRPG.

doogiebear4135d ago (Edited 4135d ago )

I ordered a vita the week that vita got ps plus. I looked through my download list and discovered I have a backlog of 56 games ready to play on my Vita (since I had ps plus for 2 years--collecting ps1, ps mini, etc games). So on day one of owning my vita, i had 56 games, and there was a sale on psn that same week for Valkyria Chronicles and Disgaea 1 for psp. Add to that my purchase of Persona 4 Golden and now my PS3 is barely ever turned on. I actually enjoy my Vita even more than my ps3 right now.

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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night DLC Adds Free Gameplay Modes

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has received a bunch of new DLC, including two new gameplay modes, for free.

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20 Best Survival Games of All Time

From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.

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Vader821d 9h ago

No 7 days to die is criminal

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel4d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow3d ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo1822d ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie2d ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere2d ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin2d ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere2d ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

ApocalypseShadow1d 13h ago

Lying to yourself is unbecoming.

Article link tells you all you need to know in Sarah Bond's own words.

Hereandthere2d ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

ApocalypseShadow1d 13h ago

At least you and others get it. Note drank the Kool aid and asked for seconds thinking it was refreshing.

Most don't even know how it all played out but it's there in black and white for all to see. Microsoft brought it up for years until the MLB forced Sony's hand. It was a win win for Microsoft. Kill one reason to buy a PlayStation or kill the game by dropping it in a cheap service to kill Sony's sales numbers on PlayStation.

OtterX3d ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

Cockney1d 8h ago

They chose well, Sony gave them the backing to pursue their dreams with no restrictions even tho their games especially dreams have very niche appeal. Media molecule and Sony deserve respect for this in an age of risk averse publishing.

RNTody3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno2d ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Inverno2d ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii2d ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno2d ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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