{"id":3947,"date":"2012-06-08T21:21:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T01:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2012-06-08T21:21:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T01:21:19","slug":"e3-what-about-the-vita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2012\/06\/08\/e3-what-about-the-vita\/","title":{"rendered":"E3 \u2013 What about the Vita?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another E3 out of the way. I remember when E3 use to be a huge deal, but it doesn\u2019t seem that way these days, except for having outlets such as G4TV and SpikeTV providing live coverage.<\/p>\n<p>More than anything else, I am <a href=\"http:\/\/playstationlifestyle.net\/2012\/06\/06\/sony-admits-fault-in-not-showing-enough-vita-at-e3-presser\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/playstationlifestyle.net\/2012\/06\/06\/sony-admits-fault-in-not-showing-enough-vita-at-e3-presser\/', 'disappointed');\" target=\"_blank\">disappointed<\/a> that Sony didn\u2019t offer more focus of its fledgling Vita. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2012\/05\/31\/youtube-coming-soon-to-ps-vita\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2012\/05\/31\/youtube-coming-soon-to-ps-vita\/', 'Apps like youtube');\" target=\"_blank\">Apps like youtube<\/a> are coming this summer, but we already knew that pre E3. Besides, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg', 'Honey Badger');\" target=\"_blank\">Honey Badger<\/a>\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0have anything on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus', 'Charlie');\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY', 'the Unicorn');\" target=\"_blank\">the Unicorn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Getting PSOne Classics is nice, but in reality, PSOne support should have been a day one endeavor. Instead of really concentrating on the games, Sony more or less squandered an opportunity to really refresh the gaming publics\u2019 opinion of the Vita.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/playstationlifestyle.net\/2012\/06\/05\/what-pissed-us-off-about-e3-2012\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/playstationlifestyle.net\/2012\/06\/05\/what-pissed-us-off-about-e3-2012\/', 'piss off');\" target=\"_blank\">piss off<\/a> PlayStation LifeStyle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seb: Yeah, on the topic of \u201cshit that\u2019ll probably sell well, but isn\u2019t of interest to a single person at E3\u201d, why did we need to spend 10 minutes watching people \u2018playing\u2019 Wonderbook? I\u2019m sure some kids will be able to convince their parents to buy a PS3, a Move, a PS Eye, a Wonderbook and a copy of Book of Spells, just to be able to read another J.K. Rowling book. But, I\u2019m not one of those kids, and I don\u2019t want to see 10 mins of it instead of proper games.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Jack Tretton said afterwards that there weren\u2019t any more Vita games shown because they couldn\u2019t fit anything else in\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-06-06-sony-says-no-to-ps-vita-price-cut\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-06-06-sony-says-no-to-ps-vita-price-cut', 'Would a price cut really matter?');\" target=\"_blank\">Would a price cut really matter?<\/a> Not if Sony doesn\u2019t push the games and give gamers some confidence that Sony is willing to back its four month old system.<\/p>\n<p>The lead up to E3 provided a lot of rumors that the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eu.playstation.com\/2012\/06\/05\/heads-up-playstation-plus-update-6th-june-2012\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.eu.playstation.com\/2012\/06\/05\/heads-up-playstation-plus-update-6th-june-2012\/', 'PS+ program');\" target=\"_blank\">PS+ program<\/a> was going to be revamped to provide an enriched Vita experience. It was revamped, and in a very good way, but once again, Sony blew its chance to really lift up the Vita.<\/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>Another year, another E3 out of the way. I remember when E3 use to be a huge deal, but it doesn\u2019t seem that way these days, except for having outlets such as G4TV and SpikeTV providing live coverage. More than anything else, I am disappointed that Sony didn\u2019t offer more focus of its fledgling Vita. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2012\/06\/08\/e3-what-about-the-vita\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">E3 \u2013 What about the Vita?<\/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-3947","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\/3947","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=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}