Sony убила PS Vita еще до выхода. Честно говорю, мне уже не хочется брать консоль на старте. Во время анонса на E3 приемница PSP выглядела очень аппетитно за 250$ и за 300$ с 3G, сейчас картина выглядит немного иначе.
Официальные цены в России на консоль - 15.000 и 18.000р, за WiFi и 3G модели соответственно ... что делает консоль самой дорогой среди всех имеющихся на рынке. Может быть стоит взять обычную PSP 3000 за 6000 р? Или же 3DS, цена на которую упала уже до 8.000-8.500, что почти в 2 раза дешевле Vita.
Можно составить целый список причин по которой консоль не стоит брать на старте: стоит консоль недешево, батарея живет 3-4 часа (конечно можно купить дополнительный аккумулятор, но он обойдется в 50$ в США и тыщи в 2.5 у нас), поддержки PSOne Classics на старте не будет, за старые игры от PSP прийдется платить по второму разу для Vita, да и на старте будет минимум интересных игр.
Sony ничему не научилась с PSP Go и продолжает наступать на теже самые грабли по 2 разу. Нафига рекламировать возможность слушать музыку на консоле, смотреть фильмы и лазить по интернету? Любой телефон на Android имеет такие же функции.
Sony практически полностью забила на обратную совместимость. PSP использовала диски UMD, тогда как PSV будет использовать новые NVG карты. Поэтому старые игры с PSP можно будет купить только в PSN. Поиграть в старые б/у игры для PSP просто не получится на новой консоле от Sony. И главная проблема в том, что обещена поддержка только 200 игр от PSP из всех которые выходили на этой платформе.
Sony's already killed the PlayStation Vita. Seriously, I don't even want one anymore. Ever since the ambitiously designed portable successor to the PSP was officially announced at E3 this last summer, each news story about the system's drawbacks really has me rethinking that $249 purchase.
(Or, $299 if you want to deal with AT&T's 3G service.)
Instead of spending $250 on it, I would rather take $129, replace my broken PSP 3000, and wait a year or two for Sony to make a handheld gaming system I can actually use.
If anything, there's now a huge laundry list of reasons for not buying it at launch: it's expensive, the battery life is frustratingly limited (but you can buy a power pack!), compatibility for PSOne Classics won't be available at launch, they're making you pay twice for the UMD games that you already own, the launch titles list is weak, and you don't even get to choose where your saved game data goes.
Sony's not selling me a revolutionary portable touch-screen gaming system, they're selling me a giant headache.
It's almost like they didn't learn anything from the PSP Go, which failed for exactly the same problems that still aren't being addressed with the PS Vita. In fact, that's the entire problem with the PS Vita's design. All of the shiny new features that the device comes pre-packaged with are being used to mask the system's flaws. Who cares if I can use the PS Vita to listen to music, take photos, surf the Internet, and post random stuff on my Twitter feed? That's what iPhones and Android phones are for -- and they're a lot more convenient to use.
"Hey, guys! I can do the Twitter thing, too! Guys?"
Everything wrong with the PlayStation Vita reeks of either rushed development, or willful ignorance of customer needs. Even through bad marketing and horrible advertising, the PSP still sold very well, especially considering how much better the Nintendo DS line-up turned out to be. But all those PSP games you enjoyed with the old hardware, like Crisis Core, Dissidia, and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep? Sony's not going to make it easy for you to play them on newer hardware, because you already own a PSP -- so suck it up, gamers. But what's worse is that Sony's handcuffed themselves in a way that they couldn't possibly have fixed the PS Vita to make it more appealing.
PS Vita: It's expensive, the battery life is frustratingly limited, compatibility for PSOne Classics won't be available at launch, they're making you pay twice for the UMD games that you already own, the launch titles list is weak, and you don't even get to choose where your saved game data goes.
Take the UMD situation, for example. Despite the large library of PSP titles that Sony's been pushing since 2004, there's never been any sensible plan to make newer systems backwards compatible -- or at the very least, making the games easy to transfer. Since the PS Vita insists on using "NVG" data cards, the burden is on the gamers to take the extra steps in transferring their titles, as Sony needs to make some kind of profit off of several PSP games that many people probably bought second-hand. Who cares it's convoluted and costly, right?
Oh, and don't forget, so far only 200 titles are confirmed to (eventually) be supported out of the 701 official games, with a huge portion being UMD releases. Well, that's just terrific. Not only does a huge portion of the library get pushed to the curb at the start, but now I have to hope that my obscure favorites like Yggdra Union and Jeanne d'Arc actually make the cut.
Hell, even the storage space is a problem, since the PS Vita only accepts specialized memory cards that cost more than an actual game. Really, Sony? Letting me use my own five-dollar 4GB SD card was just too convenient?
Between the PSP's over-designed successors and the Nintendo 3DS's lackluster number of compelling titles, it's no wonder that Android and iOS are killing both Sony and Nintendo's presence in the handheld gaming market. With gadgets like the PS Vita, the allure of upgrading to the next system just isn't there. Instead of spending $250 on it, I would rather take $129, replace my broken PSP 3000, and wait a year or two for Sony to make a handheld gaming system I can actually use.
Sony так же умудрилась устроила проблему с флешками для PS Vita ... 5-доллоровая 4Gb карточка для PS Vita стоит 30 баксов, а карта на 32Gb обойдется Вам в 120 долларов. Цены в России даже страшно представлять.
Учитывая то, что на 3DS уже вышло несколько довольно неплохих игр, да и iOS с Android давят Sony и Nin ценовой политикой по всем фронтам, места PS Vita на рынке может и не оказаться.
Так что я пока не буду спешить с покупкой новой консоли, а подожду пару лет, когда не консоль выдут хорошие игры и сделают редизайн, снизив цену на саму консоль и переферию к ней.
