Blogger wololo shares his thoughts on the Playstation TV, the mistakes of the Japanese Vita TV and how the US release could fix things. He also reflects on the renaming of the product being another nail in the coffin of the "Vita" Brand
The Twitch app has arrived on the PlayStation store for both the PS Vita and the PlayStation TV, due to hardware restrictions you will be unable to broadcast from the device however the app enables Vita and PlayStation TV owners to watch streams without having to use the browser. The app itself is 16.7MB and requires a Vita Memory card
If you’ve been holding off on buying a PlayStation TV but were planning on picking one up eventually, you better get moving.
If I could play EVERY PS 1/2 game along with PSP and Vita games I would have bought one.
Too much hardware on the market. Sony needs to avoid Sega's mistake back in the 90s.
If Sony intends to compete with a focus,trimming out unprofitable hardware and features is quite efficient.
Sony really dropped the ball on this one. It couldn't even do Netflix and they killed the YouTube app.
Got one on day 1 and I've only used it a handful of times. Freedom Wars is what's keeping it from collecting dust recently.
Push Square: "When the PlayStation TV was announced, this author was on holiday. It was poor editorial director Damien McFerran that was left to man the fort during an explosive Tokyo Game Show press conference, which also played host to the reveal of the PlayStation Vita Slim. It was big, big news at the time, with the microconsole in particular drawing plenty of plaudits."
This is the problem with Sony Playstation, fingers in too many pies. Just focus on games and supporting the platform you already have out there. They are letting the PSVita die a slow and painful death, and instead of investing in it, went to come up with PlaystationTV? Surprise, surprise! Sony didn't support that either!
When will they learn that gamers just want to play good games?
Well many reasons, a hefty chunk of vita games are incompatible, memory cards are still pricey as hell, doesn't come with a controller which is required, doesn't stream netflix even thou standard vita does, and most of all people really aren't that interested in playing handheld visuals on a big screen. Especially now that every vita game is also getting a ps4 release, sony is really just slowly but steadily turning the knife they stabbed it withat this point
It was a great idea, just executed very poorly. Hardly any exposure and not enough support.
Just another peripheral in a long list from Sony that has been unsupported and eventually dropped. This is why people should be cautious about PSVR.
when it was announced people were whining about the name being vita tv cuz people wouldnt understand what the product is, now that they renamed to playstation tv, we still get negative comments about the naming.
again calling the PSVita dead?
2012 its dead
2013 its so dead the nails on the coffin are rusted
2014 is now So dead the crypt that its coffin is in has a leaky roof
Oh i know 2015, How come the crypt door is open and the nails are out placed all neat in a row around the coffin's lid
2016 did'nt we say its dead, why is this thing still around....lol why just why will that Zombie of a platform not die!
When are people going to get the Hint just because you say its dead and you have gamers agreeing with you does not mean the platform is dead, no the only way to kill a platform is if its pulled from the market, funny how that work
Now , has the PSVita been pulled from the market yet? that Answer is no there is over 8 million+ PSVita's sold, that means there is enough install base to continue to support the system no matter how many claims of death, "Vita means life" and this zombie is just not going to die.
With Playstation Tv when you make a game for it will that same software run on a PSVita, yes, so that means your not "putting a nail in to a coffin" of the platform, oh i get it because they changed the name its somehow some way that = the death of the platform..LMAO
I guess How fast the PSPGos demise people are thirsty for another Sony failure..the thirst is "real"
Nope, wont help at all....just going to confuse the average consumer even more now.
So basically this is a PS NOW rental device. Almost exactly like Amazon Fire TV. Priced the same too. Didn't want that product either :D
I'm hoping this does better than the Vita TV is doing in Japan.,