While American sales analysts only reveal sales figures once a month, Japanese retailers reveal their sales figures on a weekly basis. So who won and lost in Japan’s games market this week? Well, let’s just say it was a bad week for Sony and a very …
A few days back, a Japanese developer named Teck4 posted a picture of Hello World running on the PS Vita via the PSP Emulator. Hello World is often used as a proof of concept of homebrew on consoles due to the ease of which it can …
The PlayStation Vita launched on the 17th in Japan and within just 2 days Enterbrain reports has recorded 321,407 Vita consoles sold on December 17th and 18th. To put that in perspective of other handhelds that have come out in the past — The Japanese launch of the …
Recently, the news whether or not Sony’s newest handheld will allow for multiple PSN accounts per device or not and we finally have solid answers. A PSN account is not only tied to just a memory card, it’s tied to both the card and the Vita …
Attention all PlayStation 3 owners, you should be prepared to have to stare at your download/install screen for an extended period of time as all consoles will be prompted to download the firmware update tonight that adds Vita support.
As expected, Pre-orders started yesterday for the PlayStation Vita in Hong Kong, which is the second city to get access to pre-orders. However, what was unexpected was the giant mob of people swarming all retail stores and crashing retailers websites trying to get their hands just …
Head of SCEA Jack Tretton, announced today the PlayStation Vita launch in several countries on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit. Unfortunately, you will not be able to get your hands on the device this holiday season but it is slated to launch in North America, Europe, Africa, the …
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. …
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 …
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, …