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."

[ftwrthtx]

Cool feature

[jujubee88]

You can also use l+r triggers to maneuver the camera w/ the right stick now!

[himdeel]

Very very nice!!!

[HammadTheBeast]

Persona kicks ass.

[blumatt]

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]

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. :]

[GribbleGrunger]

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

[DarkZane]

Very few of them are on Vita Store, but you can get them all on your vita if you transfer from PS3.

[GribbleGrunger]

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]

some peoples will always be bitchin.

[CWVita03]

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]

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]

Media Molecule is, once again, showing the rest of the industry how to make video games.

[topekomsi]

@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]

i dont see em in the vita store

[MySwordIsHeavenly]

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]

ya i just started doing that right now.. @ least itl get the job done for now

[abzdine]

cool. i can't wait to try this

[hkgamer]

Why would people want to use touch screen for PSP games when there are good physical buttons on the Vita?

[topekomsi]

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]

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]

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]

Neat :)

[OMEGAZONE]

AMAZING! There is nothing Sony can not do, they are the gaming Gods!

[Oh_Yeah]

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]

lol @ this site and the disagrees. really who wouldnt want those things for the vita?

[Conzul]

I'm sure they're trying to punish you for not having one already. That's how they think, methinks.

[edgeofsins]

I see only one disagree on you.

Lol @ people that purposefully pay attention to disagrees to try and look like a victim.

[Oh_Yeah]

@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]

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]

KICKASS. Sony sort of rocks.