PC good complemented

After spending the last generation with Playstation 3, Wii and PC I have returned with the combined PC + handhelds to my roots. Big games in high resolution and frame rate on your computer; Handhelds for the Road, in bed and in the bathroom. As someone who regularly commutes by train (including delays ;-) I'll actually also used to play on the go.

And I never liked the PSP. The UMDs seemed terribly vulnerable to dust and scratches, the load times in games like Resistance Retribution and Midnight Club were much too long for a mobile handheld. With the Vita Sony has now switched to small modules. I have no game with long load times for the Vita. For this, the Vita also backward compatible with PSP and Playstation 1 games. Of course, only from PlayStation Store. From the many sales I concerned with since already Silent Hill 1, Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Resistance Retribution, Obscure 2 and Final Fantasy IX.
The trick: The game can be a Vita menu, where you can choose the keyboard layout of each game completely free. So you can also use the second stick of Vita for PSP games to the usual way to control the camera. Even the rear touchscreen can be proven as for R2L2. These offers Sony still filters that accelerate loading times further, or can improve the graphics. With fluctuating results. Peace Walker and Monster Hunter Portable look much better. Final Fantasy IX, however, gets into trouble and is running too fast. But if it works, there is a visible difference with a clear picture.

But who buy a handheld, just to play old news?

With Gravity Rush, Wipeout 2048, and Persona 4 Golden because I had also 3 games to buy the Vita that entertain me longer than half an hour. For this purpose, they released entertaining games like TxK (Tempest successors), Backgammon Blitz (good AI), PixelJunk Monsters HD and Hotline Miami. There were also in the course of the year Tearaway, Killzone Mercenaries, Soul Sacrifice, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Dragons Crown and Virtues Last Resort. Even the upper first 4 games have been enough to buy the Vita. Although Sony scale back the production of new, bigger games, I have enough to occupy myself with the Vita.

The Vita also provides a good, free online service with spieleübergreifendem Voice Chat and the simple inviting friends in games. Write messages is easier than on the home consoles, thanks to keyboard. There are also small gimmicks like a Wecke Rapp, Facebook, Skype, Twitter, YouTube, online radio, e-mail and a calendar. It can be played exclusively own music, I just pulled a couple kovertierte albums from the Playstation 3 on the Vita. But videos about from the digital camera must be edited before. Not that I intend that.

The operation of the menu is very easy with the touch screen and optionally via buttons on the hand. The OLED screen looks hervoragend and related games like Gravity Rush, Wipeout and Killzone look almost too good for a mobile console. However, the prices of memory cards go not. The Vita requires a separate format, normal SD card or Memory Stick of the PSP are not working. Ironically again 30 for 16GB, or 70 (!) For the 32GB card plan. Even if you want to buy games from the module with box and manual exclusively. Patches for games, as well as updates to the Vita, the small card 4-8GB vollmachen quickly. Who even Playstation Plus and the games available there concerns that the card will have full faster. In addition, at least for me music that I run in the background when Wipeout. These memory cards are too small and too expensive!

The Vita lies comfortably in the hand. Although the rear touch screen takes a lot of space, but I have now grow accustomed me and not come off accidentally when I play.

Sets Just have a new wish list here on Amazon and see if you can find enough games that interest you.