PlayStation TV was always an odd product; it was very niche in its capabilities, but never did anything particularly well. It's no surprise, then, that the peripheral sold rather poorly. Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony's Worldwide Studios, seems to agree with us.
"It didn't capture the consumers' imaginations," the executive explained to Game Informer yesterday. "It's a hard concept to explain. You could say it's a mini-console, it's a video streaming device. If we say it's a mini-console, like other mini-consoles, people expect a better device like PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. It's short in that delivery. When you say it's a video streaming device, there are other devices with higher definition video. It has some unique things like remote play for PS4 games. It can do many things, but it's not easy to say this one thing is extremely good. I think that's the reason we were not able to convince people at the original price."
You can read all about that in our review. Now's the time when we hand the mic over to you. What do you think of Sony's pseudo-streamer, pseudo-console? Let us know down below.
[source gameinformer.com]
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Its an interesting device, I give it that. I have one and I am happy with it. I use it mainly to stream PS4 games to my bedroom. Also I like the fact I can play Vita games on the big screen.
I have one too,it's very poor compared to streaming steam games. Been disappointed with it from day one.
Got one and to be honest it's easier just use my vita. But if the price is £45 then its a good deal to get.
I agree with most of the above, for me it's the only Sony console product I don't own, I will get one though maybe second hand so even better value and have it in my bedroom. I'm directly above the lounge so I can hard wire it.love an excuse to use my drill. Also have a pretty decent vita collection that I'd like to play with a ds4 and on a large ish screen (just brought a 32' Samsung for bedroom). So I think I'm the ideal candidate for one.
I'm in Manchester at the moment and I can't decide if I will buy one.
Well there are many titles unplayable, so basically it's half useless
Might buy one when they're £20 in a flash sale or something but just wish Sony had released cables to hook my Vita to the TV like PSP had.
I got it and it's no use to me. I got it to play a few Vita games I wanted and play the PS plus games I had aquired. But as I don't have internet where I live (I update the PS4 and get the plus games on occasions when I'm up at the family house) I can't use it to stream anything including the PS4. Also it appears that of the few vita games it can play none of them are the ones I wanted it for, and of the playstation plus ones it requires you to have the date and time updated via the internet, so I can't play those either.
Add in Netflix and I'd already have bought it.
Just imagine how they'll cope with their VR Tech - Project Morpheus.
It's a nice little product, great if you have both a ps4 & vita
@feral1975 You don't need the internet to stream your PS4 via Remote Play - just a switch or wireless network.
I use mine to Remote Play and it's worth the price for that.
Yeah this seems like the biggest waste of money I've ever seen. I tried streaming to my Vita and the lag is just enough to ruin it. I can't imagine this is any better. And with half the games not even compatible, not even a Netflix app, I really don't see how anyone was interested in this thing.
But I suppose if you have kids or something and they don't mind the lag, it's an easy way to play PS4 in another room. I suppose I can see the appeal in that. For some.
@JaxonH i got really bad lag until i changed the settings to turn direct connect off. Now i can happily play any game on it - the lag is not perceptible (admittedly with a wired connection using home plugs).
I like it. I think if they had Netflix Amazon prime and Hulu plus on there it would be a much easier sell though.
I dunno, I bought one purely to stream games from the ps4 to another room. With a proper LAN, it works brilliantly, I have a few digital vita games that work on it (killzone, rayman origins etc) but the single biggest beef I have with the remote play is that I can't switch profiles on the ps4 while using remote play. All of the purchases for myself and the kids are on my account, so the vita and pstv are all using my account. If my son wants to play skylanders in his play room, he can't without a bit of messing around (hook up two controllers, basically). Just changing that one thing would make it better. Netflix is a huge huge need too.
I jus wanna know one thing. Can I use it to play multiplayer games like two players playing call of duty cause I don't like split screen?
@professorhat
I'd also need a second TV, but thanks anyway
""It didn't capture the consumers' imaginations,""
It had nothing to do w/ "imaginations" and everything to do w/ common sense. You put out a "TV" device you yourself called a video streaming device:
"When you say it's a video streaming device, there are other devices with higher definition video."
But it doesn't have Netlix. Or HBO go or Amazon or Hulu Plus. Who was complaining about "higher definition" video on a device that had no video? Did this thing ever even get PS Vue? You know, Sonys streaming "TV" service.
PS TV, the condom w/ a whole at each end, so we can use our imagination to put it on any way we want, only then it doesn't do the main thing condoms are supposed to do.
I can't believe the guy would even attempt to blame consumers when the thing was a pathetic gimped piece of plastic. "Consumers imaginations", yeah that was it's only problem, blame us.
I bought one and I like it. Its a little different to use because you can't turn it on with your controller. But I bought it mainly for Tales of Hearts R and a few other rpgs I wanted to play. Would be great if they put netflix on it. Is it just me or does anyone else think Sony threw it together tossed it out on shelves and completely forgot about it. I mean, I thought they would have had netflix by now at least.
People are so unhappy with the way Sony treated the PS TV and PS Vita.
So sad that it gets no support and then when a game comes out people will STILL complain it is not enough...
Comments here are atrocious... Very hostile when it comes to the Vita...
@rjejr I agree the whole TV name is confusing it does make it sound like it can stream things like Netflix and such but it's more like a Vita that you have to hook up to a tv. Perhaps if they called it Vita tv or something along those lines.
@Tasuki - "Vita tv or something"
Like they did in Japan before shortening it in the west? I think they were afraid it didn't play enough Vita games b/c of the lack of touch. Really w/o Netflix and touch they never shold have even bothered making the device, just should have made a $40 "PS4 streaming dongle".
PS4go
@rjejr Now that would make more sense like a Roku or Fire Stick but instead of TV Apps like Netflix just have gaming apps like PS4 stream, PS Now maybe the PS Store. Call it a gaming stream stick so people don't assume it's a tv streaming stick.
It does a lot of things, but all of them in an incomplete or poor way.
If this could play more Vita games or even more PSone games I would have gotten one.
Hard to explain, harder to sell.
@rjejr Sorry,but I disagree that hulu plus isn't working on PS TV, it actually is working, search it up on google. Why are you so blind to call off this device you never owned? :/
@Triumphant_Blow Actually comments here about the Vita aren't that bad, people are just being honest, it's you that just take it that way. But it's funny how you came to that conclusion after only being here a few hours.
@Triumphant_Blow - I spent many many hours researching the PS TV before buying a PS3 to stream tv for my bedroom. If you click on my profile pic and then comments you can probably see them, it's been awhile since it launched so they may be too far back. If they did add Hulu Plus that's nice, what about Amazon, Netflix and HBOgo that my Sony PS3s have? After I bought my 2nd PS3 for Christmas I admittedly stopped paying attention to the PS TV b/c it was too late then, anything they added after Christmas didn't affect me.
Doesn't change the fact the thing was a bad joke when it launched and for months thereafter.
You need to stop now. -Tasuki-
@rjejr Please don't responed to him. He is just looking to troll.
@Tasuki - I got your message, and I thought it was weird b/c I didn't think his original message was that bad - sometimes people who don't have English as a first language have some comments that come out wrong, and then there are people like me who just can't type very well. But yeah his final message seemed a bit trolly. And I didn't even know you worked here. Congrats, nice group of people.
If it came with at least 8GB I would've bought one.
Love it or hate it, the Playstation TV is one of the most versatile micro-consoles ever and I absolutely endorse it. Sure, there are things it can not do; but the ones it can it does remarkably well though it would've been nice to have more streaming functionality, obviously. We're days away from 2023, and I STILL use my PSTV on a regular basis. Always enjoyed it, always will ❤
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