Taken from IM PLAYIN
"The Playstation TV is most likely one of those things that you would quite like to have but just don’t need, right? Like a cool bit of tech that you would use for a bit before going back to whatever you had before, that turns out is easier. But I would like you to think again about the Playstation TV, if only to amuse the idea that it is actually well worth getting."
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.
The PSTV is a sneaky bastard. It seems so limited at first, and people always like to point out its flaws. Yes, the memory cards are pricey. Yes, it only plays a select number of Vita games. No, it doesn't play Gravity Rush or Uncharted.
But then you look at what it does do, and it really starts to become endearing. It has a huge library of Vita games that it can play, including Freedom Wars, Killzone, and Borderlands 2. It plays PS1/PSP classics (something which PS4 owners are not able to do). And with PS Now, it can also play select PS3 games.
It also has media playback capabilities and can handle music, movies, and photos. It's light. It's instant on. It's quiet. It's simply amazing.
If only it had Netflix, people might then give it a chance.
Lol