Unlike the PlayStation 4, the PlayStation Vita has always been relatively customisable. Straight out of the box, Sony allowed you to personalise the platform’s bubbly user interface with different colours and pictures – but that functionality’s evolved today. As part of the portable’s v3.30 firmware update, the company has incorporated themes, which can be downloaded from the PlayStation Store. Bizarrely, these aren’t available in Europe just yet, but a few can be downloaded overseas.
YouTube user OmniOmegaOB has been busy giving the functionality a go, and has posted a video showing off the three custom designs available in Japan right now. These include two free options – Crystal and Stitching – as well as a premium purchase based on murder mystery Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Each of these add custom backgrounds, icons, and audio, which can be toggled in the Settings application on the hardware’s home screen.
Honestly, we were hoping for a few unique animations and such, but we suppose that it took a little while for the PlayStation 3's themes to really pick up speed. We’re not sure that we’d pay for any of these in their current guise, but we’ll happily take the free ones. What type of dapper designs would you eventually like to dress your Vita with? Flaunt your fashionable ideas in the comments section below.
[source youtube.com]
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My vita is on its way back from Sony, following repairs to the battery... It's been a long two weeks, and I miss the lil thing far more than I thought I would
Firstly we need the themes to be on the store!
Can themes change the shape of the icon or does it have to always be the circle?
id like to have an option for opacity of the icons. AND i want some kind of ghostly theme
I like the idea but they will need better themes than that to interest me. Mine is already heavily customized.
I like the bubbles but part of me wishes it was set out how the ps3 is
I want an XMB system for PS Vita...
The bubbles are perfect for touch, but they are messy as hell even after organizing.
I just want them to let us change the bubble shape, and possibly the layout to be more phone/tablet like because what we have now is more reminiscent of a childs LeapPad then it is a high end portable gaming system! I would even be happy with a plain text list of the installed games/apps! Anything is better than what we have now!
The main question,where the hell are themes? Not available on PSN yet damnnnn,I wanna buy all of them.
Where be they?
I guess you can't download the Dangaronpa Theme from a JP account, then transfer it to a PC and then swift back to your EU account and then transfer it to the vita?
still no themes...
they should offer a Gravity Rush one, since Kat is kinda the mascot of the Vita
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