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PS Vita: Massive PlayStation back catalogue lands tomorrow!

The Gadget Show  Tuesday 28 August 2012

PS Vita: Massive PlayStation back catalogue lands tomorrow!

The Sony PS Vita is getting a bumper software update tomorrow, but it does more than fix a few bugs on the powerful gaming handheld. Version 1.80 adds support for Sony’s PS One classics, so you’ll be able to download and play more than 120 legendary PlayStation games on the go.

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The update, which rolls out on 29 August in the UK and Europe, brings support for PS One classics downloads from the PlayStation store, so you can play hit titles from the 1990s just like you can on the older Sony PSP and PS3 home console. Alongside this, the 1.80 update adds the option to use your PS Vita as a controller for certain PS3 games, add playlists to your music collection and more.

Sony’s published a list of almost 130 games that will be available to play on the PS Vita startint on Wednesday, and there are some tantalising titles in there you’ll want to revisit. Every Final Fantasy instalment from number five to number nine, classic stealth action game Metal Gear Solid, the ghoulish Silent Hill and the first three Tomb Raider games are just a few of them.

Lucky Japanese PS Vita gamers however will get more than 200 titles starting from tomorrow, with 400 more expected in the coming weeks. Fingers crossed we’ll see plenty of them arrive on the PS Vita in the West too.

What do you make of the news? Is this what the PS Vita needs to take on Nintendo, or should it have been there from the start? Let’s hear your thoughts in the comments below.

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SEBASTIAN

Omg I Cant Wait :DD

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Ed Davison

Will there be trophies? If not what's the point need new games not old ones

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pseuptugh

brillyance I think you miss Steve W.'s point. Yes, some options are being limited, but others are opening up, and this is the case with every technological change. There will be things that go away, but other things will pop up to take their place. And Apple is certainly not killing the personal computer a device that remains, by your standards, "open."The fact that the ENTIRE worldwide web is available on an iPad sort of counters your argument. Flash, quite honestly, is a proprietary technology that, despite being used by many sites, is not really essential to many people's browsing experience. And if you read about it, Apple's decision not to support it has a LOT to do with technical issues in addition to them being pretty ruthless competitors. So don't get all upset. Relax. And for God's sake don't buy an iPad/Pod/Phone! <a href=http://www.antiagecreamreviews.com/luminess-air-review/>luminess air</a> Gue heran halooooo yang masih lom kerja tolong jangan sok pinter hujat2 hal yang lom pasti. eh dimana2 setiap perusahaan ada syarat masing2 DARI OMONGAN NEGATIF LO SAPA YANG MERASA DIRUGIKAN????? kalo lo nga mau kerja nga usah kebanyakan bacot. kerja aja belom ngo aja gede.Bisa2nya orang pengangguran ngetik2 hal negatif dan herannya ada aja ada orang yang percaya sama orang yang pengangguran wkwkkwwk. tp pengennya jadi kaya. mati aja looooooo.dikasih peluang kok malah ngo yang nga jelas .ckckckckc. jadi seandainya ada sistem lain di megatama itu semata2 mempromosikan. aja sekali lagi ada yang di RUGIKAN???? untuk yang nulis pake nama fransisca ( banci apa bencong pake rok lo besok ya )

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