Vita TV: first impressions from Japan

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http://media.edge-online.com/wp-content/uploads/edgeonline/2013/11/God-Eater-2-2-610x345.jpg (http://media.edge-online.com/wp-content/uploads/edgeonline/2013/11/God-Eater-2-2.jpg)PS Vita TV went on sale in Japan today, and we spent a couple of hours with our unit, testing the main features. The results are a mixed bag: region-locking, compatibility issues and a slightly inelegant interface detract from a well-built and well-priced device.The unit itself feels solidly built, compact and quite sexy. About the size of a wallet, the highly pocketable device has ports for power, HDMI out, Ethernet, USB, Vita game cards and Vita memory cards, as well as Wi-Fi and 1GB of internal storage. Preorders opened in September but on launch day the device was readily available at major electronics shops in Tokyo for 9,950 yen (£62) on its own or 14,990 yen (£93) bundled with a white DualShock 3 and 8GB memory card.http://media.edge-online.com/wp-content/uploads/edgeonline/2013/11/2013-11-14-235958-610x345.jpg (http://media.edge-online.com/wp-content/uploads/edgeonline/2013/11/2013-11-14-235958.jpg)As you probably know, Vita TV is designed to play Vita games on the big screen. It comes with a game card slot for retail games and a memory-card slot for downloads, and of course you can pull these straight from your Vita when you get home and continue from your last save on the telly. You can even transfer saves online via PS Plus.Among the games we tested was God Eater 2, also released today, and displayed on an TV screen it could easily pass for a PS3 game, with very little blockiness to give it away as a handheld game up-resed to HD. (We tested at 720p, though Vita TV does go up to 1080i.) Ad-hoc co-op works just like a regular Vita.

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