Reasons why the iPhone has become so ubiquitious? Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Foursquare, four of the biggest social networks available just a tap of the finger away on a device that you carry everywhere anyway.
Reasons why PS Vita just got a whole lot more relevant? Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Foursquare, four of the biggest social networks that will be there, on your Vita, whenever you want them, according to Sony’s recent announcement at their Gamescom press conference.
Of course, there’s other smartphones available but there’s not another dedicated console that’s so determined to try to offer everything that Apple’s device does – barring, of course, the fact that Vita’s not a phone.
Sony can’t overcome that, of course, Vita’s a gaming device, and rightly so. But at least now it’ll be possible to do all the things you’d normally do on your phone on your minature console – and this is big. Very big.
Near and Party are fine – Near’s ability to show you who’s around and what they’re playing is cool, and Party allows for voice and text chat the likes of the Xbox 360 excel at, but the promise of apps for Vita push it closer towards being an all-in-one platform that I at least am now looking for.
All that needs fixing now is the price.
ron_mcphatty
What’s all this talk of ‘fixing the (high) price’? Wasn’t it deemed only a bit high and actually not all that bad a few months ago? I certainly think so, and let’s be fair by Christmas 2012 it will have dropped a few notes anyway.
gideon1451
Foursquare, I didn’t see that coming.
Deathbrin
They should implement Trophy tweeting so we don’t have to use Raptr.