D-Pad > Analog Stick

It's shaped like a 3DS D-pad, but it moves like a 360 D-pad. Best of both worlds I guess?

Not all. Some publishers like Square Enix and others haven't confirmed yet.

now I'm struggling with the 3g vs wifi model debate. Are the "Near" and "Out and About" applications rendered useless if you get the wifi only modeL? Anyone have any insight?

@Jamouse: Most PSP games released within the past few years are on the PS store, and most of the good games are anyway. The few exceptions I can think of are a couple SE games (KH: BBS and Crisis Core) and the Metal Gear Ac!d games... Other than that there's not much the PS store is missing when it comes to PSP games. Besides it has Monster Hunter, what else do you need?

I remember reading about Ac!d in a magazine before the PSP came out... Were they any good? It looked like some sort of card game.

Remember when Sony talked about that "UMD Passport" program, which allowed you to redeem your UMD games for discounted PSN versions? Well, Sony isn't offering the service outside of Japan.

I guess this is like a big middle finger to those who enjoy backwards compatibility.

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/07/vita-umd-passport-wont-be-o...

heh. Am so glad I own Gos and therefore all my games arre PSN.

Gos?

All I have to say is eff you, SOA. This will just decrease Vita sales in the US when it launches.

@Tendoboy: You don't know what a PSP Go is?

Oh a PSP Go! I thought he said "Gos".

Wait... What's a PSP Go? _kidding!

I'm not sure anyone will care, actually. Lack of backwards compatibility didn't stop people buying PS3s

Doesn't bother me. I'm getting Vita for Vita games and PSN stuff. And if a PSP game is that important to me, I'll either play it on my PSP or buy it on PSN.

On the other hand, backwards compatibility kept people playing the 3DS when there was a drought in software. It's one of the main reasons I bought my 3DS, actually.

Actually, it probably did. There were many other reasons why it never sold as well as people expected, but this was one of them.

The console sold well though. Forget America, it did fine, consistently outselling the Xbox 360 everywhere else.

Anecdotally, I have not, ever, met someone who decided not to buy a PS3 because it was not backwards compatible.

Well there are plenty people who bought the 3DS for it's backwards compatibility. Imagine what we would have had to go through during those droughts if the 3DS couldn't play old DS games...

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Well, obviously, we can't forget America, since it seems backward compatibility is something important for American consumers. The source itself shows a lot of comments saying they won't buy the console because of this, and a lot of rage in general. Many similar experiences I have seen (and met) at the time of the PS3 launch. I also don't think it sold well. It's pretty easy to outsell the 360 in Japan for obvious reasons (by the way, in Europe as well there is some antagonism towards Microsoft, and Sony spent an enormous amount of money in advertising, as in the Champions League, so it's not a very difficult fight considering everything), but the PS3 was, and in fact is, very underwhelming, considering the brand name and the position of the PS2 in the previous generation. It was one of the factors that had Sony suffering (annual) losses of billions consistently for the past 4 years, including the latest.

In my opinion, backwards compatibility is a very important feature! With the omission of that feature for our region, I'd gladly boycott my purchasing of a launch Vita...if I were interested in purchasing a launch Vita in the first place...which I'm not..., so my not purchasing a Vita doesn't really make much of a difference in this particular situation. Er, carry on.

I never bought the original PS3 due to the price when it was released. Once the price went down I was about to buy one but then when I told the sales clerk that I was buying it mainly for the backwards compatibility he told me that the new models didnt have it. At that point I told him never mind I dont want it anymore. Now I do have one but that is only because of Twisted Metal but if it wasnt for that I wouldnt have bought one since they got rid of the backwards compatibility.