![]() ![]() There’s a whole heap of other stuff – particularly from the PS1 era – that helped shape the console and is sadly missing from the store. The biggest offender among these is Zone of the Enders, which was actually announced for the console yet never materialized due to poor sales of the PS360 versions. Chief among them are things like Hitman and Splinter Cell – annoyingly Prince of Persia didn’t make the jump either, perhaps because ports of the second and third games exist on the PSP (which meant we missed out on the brilliant Sands of Time). The brilliantly weird Metal Gear Ac!d games from the PSP – which took the stealth-action gameplay and made it turn-based – are nowhere to be found.įrustratingly, Vita released during a period when PS2 HD Collections were all the rage on PS3 and did a very good job of getting an initial few – Final Fantasy Metal Gear Solid Sly Cooper etc., yet it missed out on a whole bunch of others. But others make little sense and gaps are there in every era – for example, the first WipEout game from PS1 is available, but the vastly superior 2097 is missing along with its successor Wip3out. Some of these have been explained at various points in the past – Kingdom Hearts has had a hi story of not getting digital releases presumably due to the nature of the contracts signed at the time, while Tekken 3 features a licenced guest character in Gon. It’s perhaps because of this that the titles that aren’t there are more glaringly obvious and are mostly things that should have been addressed. Thankfully, Vita has done a great job of collecting the majority of the ‘highlights’ of each PlayStation era – from Crash on the PS1 and Patapon on the PSP through God of War on the PS2 and Littlebigplanet on the PS3. Hilariously, a great number of the incompatible-in-both games are actually Sony’s own releases. Great games like Twisted Metal: Head On are listed but not transferable in both stores whereas some games are specific to a certain region – the Burnout titles work in NA but not EU. Thanks to the great glitch of 2014 users were able to confirm that pretty much every PS1 and PSP game on the store will run on Vita, but for some reason a number just can’t be transferred to it. I assume the reasoning for all of these discrepancies is ‘licencing issues’, but that’s a disappointing excuse for so many games to be locked to the region.Īnd on the topic of licencing issues, it’s particularly annoying to see games actually on PSN that are compatible with Vita but unable to be transferred to it. The situation is aggravated by the existence of the Japanese store – filled to the brim with even more classics like my favourite PS1 fighting series Battle Arena Toshinden, yet these aren’t available in the west at all. I’ve gotten around it by owning two consoles, one for each account, but this is a luxury not available to most. You can go through the awkward method of switching memory cards and reformatting, but this is fiddly and not really a practical solution. The real reason for this frustration, of course, is because account-switching isn’t possible on the handheld. ![]() Yet things are arguably better on the EU store as a number of classic games are compatible which aren’t in the NA s tore – primarily the Crash and Spyro games which many people would consider the best PS1 classics to actually own on Vita in the first place. As a European gamer I’ve always felt like we got the bum deal – things like the PS1 Megaman games are completely missing from the store, along with classic JRPG’s like Breath of Fire IV and Legend of Dragoon. I still find it thrilling to be able to choose between the Spyro trilogy and the first three Metal Gear Solid games on the train and no amount of pointing out flaws will diminish that.īy far the biggest frustration in having the Vita as a portable legacy games device is the differences between each region’s PSN stores. Let me preface this by saying that I still think the console does a fantastic job with it – both of my 64GB memory cards are filled with games that I played growing up and am happy to be able to take on the go with me. ![]()
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