Sony Releases PocketStation for PlayStation Vita, Free for PlayStation Plus Users in Japan for Now

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and Asia teased the return of the PocketStation in some form a few days ago, and today indeed they delivered, releasing a free app for PlayStation Plus users only (at least for now) named PocketStation for PlayStation Vita.

[Qrphe]

If they released this on the West (which I really doubt), I'd finally be able to level up that Chocobo GF haha

[Abriael]

I really, really hope it comes west.

[PoSTedUP]

me too, but with all the little games it had that i never got to play.

[PLASTICA-MAN]

I remember MGS VR Missions using it !

[jsslifelike]

I remember importing mine back in '99 from Toys & Joys for FFVIII all so I could gather those resources to make Ribbons!

So, if the original interface was Memory Card slot, what will this one be? Will it need an adapter?

[SilentNegotiator]

Wow, consider the industry shaken.

/s

[SonyNGP]

That's...great I guess?

[kB0]

What the F?

Looks like a Dreamcast spawn LOL!

I want it...

[Abriael]

You mean you didn't know of the Pocketstation before? :D

It was pretty much a Dreamcast spawn lol.

[kB0]

I remember it vaguely lol! but seeing the picture on n4g gave me some serious nostalgia bites haha...

I honestly never read up on the thing:P

[Qrphe]

It was, note its release date was right around the same time the DC came out. The PSX did some serious competition to the DC long before the PS2 came out.

[PSjesus]

DC did it first released the VMU at 1998 while PocketStation was 1999 and few games supported it FF8 and Godzilla game

[EmptySkyForm]

West! West! West!

[kB0]

North! North! North!

[rdgneoz3]

Kanye's baby?

[NateCole]

King on the North?.

Santa?

Lol!

You must be a Scandinavian.

[Killzoner99]

Now we know where Sega got the idea for the Dreamcast.

[Abriael]

That is chronologically incorrect. The Dreamcast was released two months before this :D

[Omran]

so you say sony made this device in two months :D

[Abriael]

No, but it's quite unlikely that Sega got the idea for the dreamcast from something that was released two months after the dreamcast.

[tanookisuit]

Ha, cute. Reminds me of the those Tamogauchis (excuse spelling) from back in the day.

[porkChop]

That's... the big announcement that was going to “shake the gaming industry”? Really? I mean it's cool and all but that's not something you hype up to that kind of level.

[Abriael]

Eh, marketing.

[Baylex]

You don't know but chinese people are crazy about this stuff...

[DivineAssault]

funny

[colonel179]

Very off topic but I'm curious. Is anybody getting an ad in the middle of the page?

On topic, I don't know what pocket station is. Is it relevant in the west?

[FunkMacNasty]

colonel, I'm not getting any ads in the middle of the page.

As far as this Pocketstation, I'm not sure what it is either, but it looks to be some sort of GameBoy looking neo-retro GigaPet type thing.
And it depends on how much you are into that sort of thing for it to be relevant to you. Is it Relevant to the west? Doubtful... It's Probably about as relevant as the hordes of obscure and bizzare J-RPG's that never make their way to the west.

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

Pocketstation was an accessory for PS1 and a portable console in itself. If you had a PS1 game that supported it, you could use your memory card with a save from said game and play other related games on it, some of which affected the save so you get extra stuff when you put the memory card back on PS1.

It was never much supported on West (if at all), so I don't see this making it across the ocean... But, hey, I would be glad to be wrong on this one! I just signed PS+ and bought a Vita back in August (which I had not bought a single game for, but PS+ just gave me some 150 dollars worth of games for it on the very first month).

[NeoTribe]

Wasn't this news suppost to blow our heads off? I was kinda thinking maybe they made a new pocket ps or somethin. Could care less about an app of old dot matrix games.

[forcefullpower]

This could be pretty crazy if they release this on not only the PSV but on smart phones as well.

[McScroggz]

On Sony's phone...Xperia? Not something that is going to make the phone start selling like hotcakes, but it's a cool little feature that tugs on nostalgia - especially in Japan.

[Iltapalanyymi]

I knew this. I knew it would be like this.

[McScroggz]

Awww, bring it to the US Sony :D

My Vita is ready!

[joeorc]

People its already on my PSVita and im in the US, it must of been in the recent update to the PSVita check it out took a pic with my phone of it.

http://i94.photobucket.com/...

for those that have a PSVita try it yourself open up a PS1 game
when you touch the pocketstation button, it boots into a PS1 boot but no Apps yet. so it works to boot , but no software for the Pocketstation to run yet. Grin.