railven
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- Mar 25, 2010
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I don't see why it should be an issue. It should just play the vita games and instead of outputting to the built in screen, send it over HDMI. They obviously changed something somewhere that requires changes to the game.
They could have easily made it do all the same stuff a pS4 does I think when it comes to apps.
Oh, they definitely changed things:
For gaming - no touch screens, so they had to rework how the overlay menus work (God do I miss the simple swipe motion to close a page, holding O for 2-3 seconds is a chore)
The OS (while built of Vita) is markedly different with a lot of the functions removed, some others burned (unless I missed how I can force closed that stupid "Activity" Page)
Even PSN is flagged differently, opening that App up blocks you from EVERYTHING not compatible with PS TV, so it feels barren, lonely, and pointless.
These are just surface changes I know of, I'm sure under the hood there are hardware/software differences baked into the OS which is what is flagging games as not compatible. Devs have to tweak some things in their games to make it compatible (my guess, judging from Idea Factory's reaction - seems legit).
Still Egg on Sony's face. US version launched with a fraction of Japanese's function. I can do without the Netflix, though I shouldn't have to and that is just sad on their behalf.