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Sony drops Passport Program for PS Vita
Boasting a spacious touchscreen, a touch-enabled rear panel, dual analogue sticks, sumptuous graphics, and impressive processing power, what’s not to love about the new PlayStation Vita (PSV)? Well, if you’re an existing PlayStation Portable (PSP) owner considering the leap to Sony’s latest handheld console, here’s a little snippet of regional disappointment that may dent your [...]
Sony deflects attention from tanking PlayStation Vita
Clearly keen to deflect attention from the PlayStation Vita portable console as it continues to tank in Japan, Sony Corp. has now taken to gesticulating wildly towards the PlayStation brand’s overall success. More pointedly, Sony this week revealed that it sold some 6.5 million PlayStation devices worldwide between November 18 and December 31 of 2011—with [...]
PlayStation Vita sales plunge again in Japan
Oh dear, the PlayStation Vita has been available at retailers (in Japan) for just shy of three weeks, and it would already appear that its honeymoon period with consumers is well and truly over. Specifically, having shifted a massive 325,000 units within a few days of launch, Andriasang reports that sales of the touch-screen portable [...]
Does Vita support HTML5 video or not?
In yet more seemingly negative PlayStation Vita news, initial customer complaints regarding hardware bugs and performance issues have now been followed by a gripe connected to the console’s apparent lack of support for the HTML5 video standard. The device’s inability to host HTML5 video content comes despite apparent reports outlining Sony’s pre-launch insistence that its [...]
GameStop leak reveals Vita launch software
Although we know the PlayStation Vita won’t be hitting U.S. and European shores until February, we don’t yet know how much more than the console’s retail pricing. Or at least we didn’t… until now. Specifically, a leaked GameStop document currently doing the rounds online suggests the Vita will launch alongside software titles Gravity Rush, Ultimate [...]
Vita firmware v1.510 doesn’t fix hardware problems
Electronics giant Sony has released an official firmware update that apparently fixes progress-related issues experienced by players of Shin Sangoku Musuo Next—that’s the latest Dynasty Warriors game to you and me. Sadly, a report on The Verge suggests the update does nothing to address a number of problematic hardware bugs that have caused early PlayStation [...]