[QUOTE="chimera1984"]If its anything like japan, they will be cheaper over the PS Store, sony stated to re-imburse launch users for the expensive memory cards downloadable titles will be at a greatly reduced cost, think it was like 40% off in japanSaudiFury

Yeah me too, but this is SCEE and SCEA were talking about, were probably gonna get shafted over, lol! But yeah in japan, games were around 30-40% cheaper on the ps store for the first 2 weeks i believe. For example, Hot Shots Golf 6 (Everybodys Golf to normal folk) was about 7000 yen, which is about $90/£59 (given exchange rates today) in store, on the PS Store it was sold for 4900 yen to launch users £41/$60 - so thats about a 30% saving.

But obviously the dollar and pounds are much stronger against the yen at the moment, so the exchange rates are pretty dire.

Not to bring up other systems, but it is funny that people complain that the Vita costs as much as a PS3, but the 3DS costs more than Wii.

gamenerd15

[QUOTE="chimera1984"][QUOTE="j2zon2591"] It's mostly about accessibility and simplicity. No excess baggage, no extra bags, no extra bulge and another free pocket. 1 device to "rule" them all. He must also enjoy those bite sized games on the go. just maybe...AmazonTreeBoa

Now that Vita has 2 analog sticks and more power, they might port some of the PS2 games like the God of Wars and MGS.

Naveen196

[QUOTE="Double_Wide"]

[QUOTE="AmazonTreeBoa"]I bought my phone to play games. If I didn't care to play games, I wouldn't have bothered with getting a smartphone. I would have just gotten a normal boring everyday cell phone.j2zon2591

Quick question: why pay on a monthly basis to do something that you can do for free using another dedicated device?

[QUOTE="pela_yo"]

I agree with you for the most part. However, when you say that people don't get a smartphone to play games that seems a bit off to me. Obviously not everyone but a lot of people get a smartphone, instead of a regular phone just so they can play angry birds. Double_Wide

Then these people are complete idiots and deserve to be within the "99%"

Yeah i agree with this, personally id much rather it be $250 than the £229 were paying in the UK, anything sub £200 id be very happy with given VAT over here etc, but its a very high spec machine, and im looking forward to getting my hands on one, as for a few points, it appears the battery life of the 3g is averaging about 4 hours, the wifi model is apparently averaging about 6-7 hours (according to users posting vlogs on youtube being used on an average day) which i think is very substantial, the memory card prices are a little heavy but ill accept the hit on that one as there likely to drop in price prior to release, But the thing that got me to pre-order it was the sheer quality and potential the machine has got, no device out there utilises Augmented Reality any where near is good as the PS Vita is capable, and people seem to forget that it contains full sixaxis motion controlling, and 2 multi-touch panels. Im personally happy with the devices specs, and roll on feb 22nd.