I think the complaints about the few second waiting times for menus and whatnot are a little over the top and really... if you lose the cable, that's your own fault. Sure, it's baffling as to why they didn't use a standardised connection, but just look after your stuff. After all, the device costs £230, as mentioned one or two times. Also, the Vita is not a phone, so presumably most people who can spend this much money on a portable console will also have a internet-capable phone with them that they can use to look up the guide? Luckily, the interface is something Sony can work on through updates (and I'm sure there'll be plenty of those!), so I think there's a lot less to be concerned about than is suggested. Definitely agree £30 for a memory card is too much, I think the system is going to be a hard sell, particularly at the moment when people are worrying about money. I'm going to give it 12 months, see how it pans out with the games that are released for it and the overall performance of the system, and then decide whether I'm going to get one.
I'm in the minority here, I actually think it's a good method. Rather than being punished for buying second hand, I see it as being rewarded for buying new. If you're willing to wait a few months, which I usually am, the new price will come down. I think the answer is for retailers like Gamestop to bring the used price down to reflect the inaccessible DLC/online play.
I have no problem with proving that I own a game via some sort of product key and am not opposed to registering my ownership online but I think when the number of installs is limited or when the registration of that product affects the usage of other titles, regardless of how they are acquired, I feel like my privacy has been somehow compromised. While nocd cracks and the like are primarily used for piracy they are also very useful for quietening noisy CD drives or just a simple matter of convenience. If publishers offered some sort of 'legal' discless option whereby you had a password that needed to be changed online every few months and was only needed for play without the disc that could maybe help in someway but until DRM becomes less intrusive I will steer clear of any games sporting it. Steam seems like a decent solution but my issue there, as with all digital purchases, is the question of whether I really *own* anything. Sure, I've paid for the rights to play the game, but if I've spent money on something I like to know that I'm free to redistribute that item when I no longer require it and that is obviously impossible when there's nothing physical to sell on.
Meh, no GBA slot... no use to me. I'm getting a DS Lite to replace my original Gameboy Advance (no backlight, rubbish battery life) and for homebrew because I updated the firmware for my PSP before I knew about it!
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