Sony revealed today that PlayStation TV is heading to North America on October 14 and Europe on November 14.
Will PlayStation TV Succeed in the US?
The PlayStation TV will support PlayStation Now, Vita games, remote play, and PS1 and PSP classics when it comes out in the west for $100 USD/€100. There is another planned bundle for $140 USD that packs in a DualShock 3, 8GB memory card, HDMI cable, and copy of LEGO Movie: The Video Game
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.
I will be picking up the bundle when it releases here in Australia , what an amazing deal
Once the VITA memory card gets hacked and more indies get ported to the console this thing will pay for itself in value for me.
The VITA get's this just on the cool nature of it being portable hw. I feel like this will be good hw for the fact it's a PS4 TV extender and it's nature of being tied to VITA's exploits (which will allow cool things in the not too distant future).
..And I'm not even mentioning the fact games could be made "legally" on the PSTV by anyone (via PSM 2.0 SDK and PSM for Unity).
Getting one to remote play my PS4 in another room or just bring it with me to remote play at a friend's house.
Will pick one up probably late next year will be a great addition with a PS4 and I can play Vita games without spending a load of cash on an actual Vita
My question/problem with this is how are you to play ps4 games with a DS3?