Recently, ASCII magazine spoke to an annoymous Sony representative about a couple concerns that potential consumers had with the Playstation Vita. One of the big concerns that they had was over the downloading via Vita’s optional 3G connection, there good news and some bad news with this unfortunately. The good being that a 3G version of the Vita is still set to release with the other versions.
Square Enix, the biggest RPG games company in Japan, has recently announced their pricing plan for PS Vita games through the Army Corps of Hell Twitter account. The game will cost ¥4,980($60 USD) for the boxed version and ¥3,990($50 USD) for the downloadable edition. This likely reflects the cost of other titles to be released on the handheld.
PS Vita already has quite a strong foundation of games announced before launch and that is likely going to lead to it its success, despite some issues with the battery. Ruin(working title) is another title that really shows off the potential of the Vita, not inly in graphical prowess but in social connectivity, such that could only work on an always connected device(3G).
At the Tokyo Game Show this year Sony was very excited to show off their new hardware, the PS Vita, and they want to make it known that it will have software worthy of the hardware. Gravity Rush is one of the titles that really seems to show off the power of the handheld, as the physics of gravity are quite complicated and the whole game is based off this premise.
Ever wonder what the future of portable gaming media would look like? Well, you must have been a little curious. It is not some new sort of micro disk that can store terabytes of data. Sony is going retro with the PS Vita, back to cartridges, which should last you a little long than those pesky UMDs.
Everyone became very much excited to hear Yosuke Hayashi, the Team Ninja head, say that – “We’ve received a PlayStation Vita system and are thinking about it”, at Gamescom 2011. Team Ninja had already planned their release of Ninja Gaiden 3 for PS3 by 2012 and now since they have the PS Vita system in their cluthces, they are strongly considering the fact of bringing a Ninja Gaiden game to the Vita system users.
After all the buzz about the failure of Nintendo’s acclaimed 3D hand-held gaming console–PlayStation–set to release their own take on the next generation portable gaming console have been under some tremendous pressure. No one blames them, after the most recent high-end portable gaming device caused Nintendo’s own CEO to cut his own wages just to cover the losses of its failure. However, a very big shiny silver lining is within the grasps of the console giants, Sony, as several game publishers have come out and expressed their support of the Next Generation Portable gaming console –- The PlayStation Vita.
Okay this is gonna need backstory. Black Rock Shooter is an original character by the artist Huke, a black-haired girl with ivory skin and a blazing blue eye, possessing a very distinctive style of dress. She is quite a popular character in Japanese pop culture, especially among Vocaloid fans and Artists. A song of the same name by Supercell has had a single OVA based on it, and is getting a TV series. A Black★Rock game will be released today or tomorrow in Japan, and Nippon Ichi, creators and publishers of many Japanese games like Disgaea have the rights to bring it to the US and Europe.
The Magical Girl series, which takes the typical bright and cheerful image conjured by Magical Girl anime like Cardcaptor Sakura and Cyberteam in Akihabara and turns it into a dark and brutal deconstruction of the genre, is getting a PSP game based on the anime.
Nippon Ichi, known for series like Disgaea and Makai Kingdom, has a handful of PSP exclusives on their roster. Spencer of Siliconera asked the president of Nippon Ichi Software Souhei Niikawa what he thinks about PSP games being remastered for the PS3.
At Best Buy’s site, they are having a sale that is just plain awesome. Buy three games, and the cheapest one is free. Before you start thinking that this applies to a narrow selection of games, it doesn’t. This is an offer without any bull or other frivolous rubbish.
Fate/Extra, part of Type Moon’s Fate/ franchise, a series that follows the story of various heroes from the past, present, and future, summoned into a battle known as the Holy Grail War, is coming to the United States this year.
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