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Submitted by kassatsu 263d ago | news

Vita Firmware 1.80 Allows You To Control PSP Games With Touchscreen

"Not mentioned in today’s PlayStation Blog post about Vita firmware 1.80 is the ability to control PSP games by using the touch screen." (PS Vita)

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ftwrthtx  +   263d ago
Cool feature
jujubee88  +   263d ago
For P3P players
You can also use l+r triggers to maneuver the camera w/ the right stick now!
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himdeel  +   263d ago
Very very nice!!!
HammadTheOne  +   263d ago
Persona kicks ass.
blumatt  +   262d ago
Very cool feature. This sort of reminds me of how you use touch controls to play emulated games on an Android phone. The screen has the controller on it with touch buttons.
Snookies12  +   263d ago
It's pretty dang awesome, but I wonder why there aren't four other places? (top, bottom, left, and right) Parts of the screen? Either that, or you should be able to move the touchable areas around to the exact spots you want. Hopefully they work on this idea and expand it a little further. Great fun to fight battles on Persona 3 with the touch screen though. :]
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GribbleGrunger  +   263d ago
There are several excellent updates in this firmware but unfortunately the PS1 list over at the American blog has ruffled a few feathers. SCEA, what were you thinking? LOL
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DarkZane  +   263d ago
Very few of them are on Vita Store, but you can get them all on your vita if you transfer from PS3.
GribbleGrunger  +   263d ago
That's why it was funny. SCEA could have saved themselves 6 pages of venom if they had explained that. It's made even funnier when on the next few pages people start to realise. Sony should have done this on April 1st
MmaFan-Qc  +   263d ago
some peoples will always be bitchin.
CWVita03  +   263d ago
Is all of this really happening Sony releasing a meaningful update for the Vita?? And early too. Maybe they aren't giving up too quickly. I dare say that If some killer games come, the Vita could go down as the most intuitive portable gaming system ever so far.
ddurand1  +   263d ago
tearaway already shows off its capabilities exteremely well...and the device ahs been out for around 6 months.

imagine what well see in the next couple years?

itll be excellent, thats for sure.
MySwordIsHeavenly  +   263d ago
Media Molecule is, once again, showing the rest of the industry how to make video games.
topekomsi  +   263d ago
@myswordisheavenly
Now we just need other devs like guerilla, polyphony, naughty dog, eat sleep play, to put full support to the vita, i wanna really see what it is capable of.
DivineAssault  +   263d ago
i dont see em in the vita store
MySwordIsHeavenly  +   263d ago
The store doesn't get updated until tomorrow night. Also, you can download them onto your PS3 and transfer them to your Vita right now. Just go do that. ^_^
DivineAssault  +   263d ago
ya i just started doing that right now.. @ least itl get the job done for now
abzdine  +   263d ago
cool. i can't wait to try this
hkgamer  +   263d ago
Why would people want to use touch screen for PSP games when there are good physical buttons on the Vita?
topekomsi  +   263d ago
I think people would just like to have the option, kinda like scrolling through web pages using the rear touch screen, it just adds to the function.
hkgamer  +   263d ago
Guess it's right, wouldn't hurt to add those optional touchscreen buttons. Although probably only 0.01% of people would ever use it.

I wonder why I got 4 disagrees... I can't think of a single psp game where I would need to use the touch screen instead of the physical buttons. Didn't people say that replicating physical buttons using touchscreen doesn't work?
vegetassj51  +   263d ago
Well I like it, I use the bottom corners for select and start, cuz i always felt select/start on the vita where in a weird place and a little harder to press than the other buttons. So i think it is a nice option.
r21  +   263d ago
Neat :)
OMEGAZONE  +   263d ago
AMAZING! There is nothing Sony can not do, they are the gaming Gods!
Oh_Yeah  +   263d ago
nice, vita keeps improving. all it needs is a lower price point, more remote play capabilities,a few great rpgs, and ill be picking one up.
Oh_Yeah  +   263d ago
lol @ this site and the disagrees. really who wouldnt want those things for the vita?
Conzul  +   263d ago
I'm sure they're trying to punish you for not having one already. That's how they think, methinks.
edgeofsins  +   262d ago
I see only one disagree on you.

Lol @ people that purposefully pay attention to disagrees to try and look like a victim.
Oh_Yeah  +   262d ago
@edgeofsins not tryna look like a victim, its just almost every comment i make on here comes with facts or good points. i get alot of disagrees sometimes.. i couldnt care less. just saying i dont go around just clicking on the damn button for no reason.
topekomsi  +   263d ago
I agree, partly Ock, i think sony should create a brand new remote play client, they are gonna need it for ps4 fo sho.
DJ  +   262d ago
KICKASS. Sony sort of rocks.

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