I'm sure there's a reason for it, but I still don't like it.
I'm wavering between indecisiveness and inability to commit to the idea of vita as a companion device for PS4 and allocating the proper resources to make it happen on one hand, and on the other hand just plain old ineptness. (In all fairness, I must admit there is a third possibility also... Lack of time, perhaps? Knowing Sony though, the first two have a lot of weight to them.
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Don't they SEE that this kind of feature needs to be baseline in the hardware, IE "just work" in an apple sort of way, if it's to really catch hold? Maybe they're too close to both the problem and the solution to realize that the step they just took is just almost but not quite.
That said, I still love my little Vita (in a cool gadget sort of way).
It's a super well made device, the hardware is really solid in every meaning of the word, both quality and performance. The menus are just annoying though. I poke at one of those jittery M&Ms on the home screen (wonder where they got that from? lol), expecting the appropriate app to start. No, then it flips open a new window with a new icon I have to poke at to really start the app, plus some other options and ADS on top, to totally unrelated software on sale in the PSN store! WHAT THE EFF! Terrible design.
I wish they'd just clean it up, lose the silly flipping-leaf animations, gradients, jiggly buttons and all of that crap. And go through the options screens, there's just WAY too many options there. It's confusing, difficult to actually find stuff you need to find, and the built-in help is often bad too. "Zuumax on/off: enable zuumax" Erh, okay? Why do I need this? What does it do? No idea! There's like 20 of those spread out in the vita config menus.
