Posted by SignOfZeta on July 17, 2015 at 20:42:11 EST.
Dang. The Playstation TV is a pretty big fuckup. Did you know you can't watch Netflix on one? That's just fucked. I can watch Netflix on my DSi. I can't understand why they waited 11 months between US and JP releases and yet still did such a bad job of the U.S. version that there really is no way it could have been anything but a huge flop. Talk about a doomed company on autopilot...even at $40 I don't think it was a good deal. I do feel glad that I bought it though, since hackers will eventually make it the product it should have been all along. It only sucks now because of Sony's inability to get out of their own damned way.
It was basically a screen-less Vita, which would have been fine, but Sony wanted to make it an Apple TV so they re colored it, renamed it, and didn't do anything to actually make it like an Apple TV.
My only explaination is that it's for Sony employees too loyal to buy any products made by someone other than Sony.
Follow Ups:
it is also a separate contract/whitelisting process to get your game on there, so oh, deer! alpha was unavailable! (n/t) (exodus) (13:33:34 07/18/15 EST)
I guess they wanted to make sure that no game slipped through the cracks that required rear touch, something the TV can't do. I don't know about everyone else, but nearly all my games are basically just PSP games, no camera, no rear or front touch, no motion sensing. It's hard for me to remember those features are even there. HOWEVER, if they had handled the PS4 pad correctly (ie: should have been co-developed with Vita TV) then they could have done touch. Instead they have a useless bunch of touch features on the Vita, useless touch features on the PS4, and a whole bunch of Vita games that won't run on the TV because their useless touch features can't be used because, as far as the TV is concerned, the PS3 and PS4 pads are the same. How many design dead ends is that? Do the different hardware people even talk to each other? They could have made their own special pad (ie Super Gameboy controller, Gameboy Player Controller) or just made it so that you could use a Vita as a pad. They should have just gone ahead and charged $500 for the Playstation TV so it could truly be a 21st century Supergrafx; abandoned internally months before launch, but launched anyway, then quickly discounted and forgotten. (n/t) (SignOfZeta) (16:25:39 07/18/15 EST)
As someone who knows nothing about video games anymore, all these Sony products you guys talk about remind me of Sega in 1994...and I'm just as confused as yer gramma. (n/t) (Millergram and Opa Opa) (23:18:47 07/18/15 EST)
Not wanting to be yer gramma at all, I just red up a bit on this stuff and from what I can tell my phone can play PlayStation Mobile games. Apparently my HTC phone is PlayStation Certified™! Does this mean I could have bought Oh, Deer! three days ago? Or is there some games on PlayStation Mobile that only support some of the supported devices. (n/t) (Yep...Still Yer Gramma and Opa Opa) (00:49:33 07/19/15 EST)
It's *kinda* like that, but the Sega of 1994 was still just a game company and everything you bought, even if it was some hella dumb shit like a 32X CD version of some crap sports game, it all still worked. You put the game in and it worked. Now that all these devices are designed to do so much more in so much more complex ways, when they fall on their face it's also in complex ways. After hooking this system up and realizing how much regular Vita stuff didn't work on it I wondered if maybe I shouldn't just set it on the shelf and wait until someone tells me something cool I can do with it because I can't honestly see why I shouldn't just be using an actual Vita or a PS3 for any tasks that the PSTV can do. I can play Pinball Arcade on it, but it looks much worse than the PS3 version and isn't portable like it is on an actual Vita. Early on, apparently, you could actually download Netflix, but it wouldn't run, now it's not in the store at all, neither is YouTube, but Hulu is (requires subscription). (n/t) (SignOfZeta) (20:16:38 07/20/15 EST)
It's pretty fun to stream games to my bedroom TV while my kids are hogging the TV in our main room. (n/t) (Jeurja) (00:45:21 07/19/15 EST)
Can't argue that. Anything that it does do (ie. Crackle, Crunchy Roll) can be done better by most other media boxes. Playing Vita games on the big screen is about the only thing it does reasonably well. (n/t) (Darius) (16:54:48 07/21/15 EST)
I got one for $40 too, thinking I could just live with playing most of my Vita carts and just push my saves to the cloud for syncing with my Vita. Ugh, my PSN account limits how many systems I can have registered. I think my PSPGo is registered so maybe I can untether that (if I can figure out how to do it). Anyway, yeah, big disappointment, even at this price. (n/t) (NeoGutsman) (02:02:29 07/30/15 EST)
