Posted by exodus on July 18, 2015 at 13:33:34 EST in reply to 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. from SignOfZeta.
it is also a separate contract/whitelisting process to get your game on there, so oh, deer! alpha was unavailable!
n/t
Follow Ups:
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)
