{"id":3869,"date":"2012-02-22T07:20:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T11:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2012-02-22T07:20:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T11:20:58","slug":"vita-%e2%80%93-week-one-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2012\/02\/22\/vita-%e2%80%93-week-one-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Vita \u2013 Week One Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I\u2019m getting a little ahead of myself, as technically tomorrow around 3PM\u2019ish will be the end of a full week, but I really couldn\u2019t resist myself.<\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019m offering up three random, but heavily focused, tidbits for your viewing pleasure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Battery Life<\/strong><br \/>\nFor a portable device, how much time away from a charger is an important question. \u00a0According to Sony\u2019s official blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2012\/02\/16\/ps-vita-the-ultimate-faq\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2012\/02\/16\/ps-vita-the-ultimate-faq\/', 'Ultimate Vita FAQ');\" target=\"_blank\">Ultimate Vita FAQ<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: What is PS Vita\u2019s battery life?<br \/>\nA: Officially, PS Vita is rated at approximately 3 to 5 hours of gaming, 5 hours of video playback, and 9 hours of music playback. Recharging the battery from 0 percent will take approximately 2.5 hours.<\/p>\n<p>From a gaming perspective, you\u2019ll notice that the most graphically intense games such as UNCHARTED: Golden Abyss are slightly more demanding on battery life, while simpler games such as Escape Plan are less demanding. To further maximize battery life, you can employ measures such as reducing the screen\u2019s brightness or deactivating Wi-Fi. By and large, PlayStation employees who have used PS Vita extensively in the real world have praised the unit\u2019s battery life \u2013 if you pick up PS Vita on day one, be sure to let us know what your experiences are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>3-5 hours is about right, except I <em>feel<\/em> like I\u2019m hitting the lower end.  I know that feel is not tangible, and while I haven\u2019t done any experiments, I\u2019m fairly certain that I\u2019m not getting 8-10 hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cross Play \u2013 Hustle Kings<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019m not sure what time Sony got around to updating the store last night (at 10:45PM I gave up), but this morning I was able to start a <em>free<\/em> download of Hustle Kings.  I picked up this game on the PS3 long ago as part of a sale, or PS+ incentive, or some such, and never really played that much.  Sony was nice enough to offer it up for free to owners of the PS3 version, which is very cool in my book.  Hooray for Sony!  Bravo!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remote Play<\/strong><br \/>\nI have messed around a little with Remote Play and much like Remote Play with the PSP; it is a little hit or miss.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, Remote Play will not work over 3G.  I understand data limitations and required bandwidth utilization, but it sure would be nice to kick off my PS3 from anywhere, go to the store, and download whatever it was that tickled my fancy, in order for said download to be on the PS3 when I arrived home.<\/p>\n<p>What games with Remote Play?  I experimented some with download games, and found that PSOne Classics (specifically Final Fantasy V), PixelJunk Monsters, PixelJunk Shooter (but not the sequel), and High Stakes Bowling all played successfully.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt that developers will have any incentive to go back and address older games via a Remote Play patch; hopefully someone of the newer titles will eventually support this underutilized feature.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I\u2019m getting a little ahead of myself, as technically tomorrow around 3PM\u2019ish will be the end of a full week, but I really couldn\u2019t resist myself. Today I\u2019m offering up three random, but heavily focused, tidbits for your viewing pleasure. Battery Life For a portable device, how much time away from a charger is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2012\/02\/22\/vita-%e2%80%93-week-one-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vita \u2013 Week One Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-vita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3870,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}