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Originally Posted by JayP
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Vita and PS3 can't be used in combination, can they? The Vita can stream PS3 games on it, but you can't use the two together in unison for dual-screen gaming.
That's the big key I think. The controller essentially has all the buttons of the PS3/360 controllers, but using the touchscreen to remove useless HUDs, improve inventory screens (with touch), and prevent the player from having to pause the game to look up information (ie; dungeon map in Zelda) is the key for hardcore gaming.
Oh, and the motion controls are obviously something the Vita couldn't do either. By the sounds of some of the demos, they seem more practical than the Wii.
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I think Sony will add that capability though.
IIRC correctly they have toyed with it in the past on racing games, where the screen on the PSP acted as a rear view mirror for your car.
I will say now that the size of the controller is not nearly as big an issue for me as it was before. The original image looked weird because the controller looks huge in what must have been extremely tiny hands, after watching a video of a guy holding it the size looks more feasible. It still looks like holding it is a little awkward but at least the size is not as big as i had thought.
If they do this right and use it as a secondary resource to help add features to games, instead of using it as the main feature of the game itself (See new Kinect/Move games) then Nintendo will be extremely successful with this new system.
Well really they will be successful anyway just because the Nintendo brand and first party games are so strong.