Will Sony Need to Cut the Vita’s Price?
Sony’s new handheld gaming system, the PlayStation Vita, will not be released in the United States this year. The system is priced at $249.99. Some people think it should be lower.
Sony’s new handheld gaming system, the PlayStation Vita, will not be released in the United States this year. The system is priced at $249.99. Some people think it should be lower.
Sony recently announced that it would be changing the offer to the package deal for their 3D. Sony has changed the packed in game from the upcoming Resistance 3 to another less desirable tittle.
As someone who was very excited to play David Jaffe’s big
return to car combat this year, this is disappointing news indeed but
ultimately not surprising. Jaffe responded to the announcement that Twisted Metal will miss its October
release window and be pushed back to next year with the following: “Thing is, you gotta trust me when I tell you that – with this extra time
for tuning and polish – the game is going to be so much better than it already
is.”
A lot of modern games tend to come with extras now, but Sony
seems to have gone a little nuts with Resistance 3 now that it’s gone gold. While all these extras are technically just marketing material, if I were a new
PlayStation 3 owner it would be pretty cool nonetheless. The bonus
content that comes on all Resistance 3 discs includes game demos for
Killzone 3, MotorStorm Apocalypse and Infamous 3, as well as a slew of trailers
for upcoming games such as Uncharted 3. But where it gets a little odd is the
inclusion of various trailers for Sony films and music clips featuring artists
such as Ozzy Ozborne – what?
At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Sony plans on revealing the
full details of the PlayStation Vita. While the price and core features were mentioned and demoed in limited form at
this year’s E3, at TGS this year we will get to see what the handheld is truly
capable of and hopefully get some more info on the line-up of launch
titles. I’m personally already fine with the price and the absurd amount
of features are some good selling points but I would certainly like to know how
exactly a lot of them will be used by games, and more importantly what those
initial games will be.
Sony has plenty of development teams under their direct control, including the studios behind such mainstays as God of War and Gran Turismo.
But many of their best franchises, especially since the PS2 days, have
been made by independent companies they partner with like Naughty Dog,
Insomniac, and Sucker Punch Productions.
Can real games please start coming out again soon? The downloadable
stuff is usually pretty okay looking, but week after week of looking at
either a single decent-looking new game or a handful of bad ones is
becoming pretty soul-crushing. I don’t know how much longer I can take
it.
Early access
to Resistance 3‘s multiplayer beta will start August 4th, while PlayStation
Plus subscribers will be able to join August 23rd.
I’m not the biggest fan of
Resistance. I had minimal exposure to the first and second games so far but I’m somewhat interested in the upcoming third entry. The beta
will be starting next month and anyone with SOCOM 4 gets to play a good few
weeks earlier than PSN Plus subscribers. I’ve still yet to find a reason
to upgrade to Plus, not least because I spend a ton of money on this hobby
already so I probably won’t be participating myself.
Those of
you who live in some countries such as mine (Australia or the United Kingdom)
will no doubt find it a little odd that a few American game sites are talking
about No More Heroes
for PlayStation 3 as if it is a new thing, which weirdly it is for them. Allow me to
elaborate.
Speaking to a UK friend of mine
there is indeed a version of No
More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise available on store shelves already in
our countries, and has been since April I believe. I’ve definitely
seen it here so I was initially confused as to why a few US sites were
reporting a demo for this game releasing on PlayStation network for the
upcoming release of a version of the game in their country with the same title.
To a universal sigh of indifference, Gearbox has released the first details of DLC for its critically panned title Duke Nukem Forever. The DLC, named “Hail to the Icons Parody Pack,” will be available this fall and will be entirely multiplayer-focused.
The
pack will contain four new maps, four new weapons and three new modes.
The new maps are said to be evocative of legendary shooters such as Doom, and more modern hits like Call of Duty. Freeze Tag, Hot Potato and free-for-all Hail to the King will feature as the game’s new modes.
