PlayStation Vita Social Club (Opening Night - San Francisco)

Check out the opening of SCEA's first Vita Hill Social Club, on Union Street in San Francisco!
These Vita Hill clubs will operate from 12-9PM every day until February, giving the public a chance to get intimate with Sony's new portable gaming powerhouse in a casual walk-in environment with a lounge theme.

View photos and read impressions at Vivid Gamer:
http://vividgamer.com/2011/12/03/pictures-from-the-vita-hill-social-club-event/

Playable demos included Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Hot Shots Golf International Tour, ModNation Racers, WipEout 2048, Reality Fighters, and LittleBigPlanet.

Food and drink supplied by Amici's Pizza, Gauayaki Yerba Mate, KIND Healthy Snacks, and Vita Coco Coconut Water.

For opening night, the staff from the Official US PlayStation Blog was in attendance, including Jeff Rubenstein, Sid Shuman, and Rey Gutierrez, along with presence from Destructoid and Game Revolution. Among the giveaways was the raffling-off of a single PS Vita to a lucky blog-reader!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Vita
• Hill
• launch
• event
• hands
• on
• computer
• entertainment
• america
• vaio

[highoffcoffee496]

@Candyham would u say a majority of the people there were impressed with the vita? or not so much?

[CandyHam]

@highoffcoffee496 This was opening night and many of us had gotten word from gaming sites, so the audience was mostly gamers; meaning we had a good idea of what to expect, and I think those expectations were exceeded. That said, being gamers, we are also Sony's most critical audience, so you'd see some fans were eager to talk with Jeff and Sid about what frustrates them, like the lack of clicking thumbsticks, or the limited backwards compatibility, and *especially* the memory card situation.

[unknownbruneian]

how are the sticks of the ps vita compared to the ps3 controller?

[CandyHam]

@unknownbruneian I can confirm the sticks do not click (L3/R3).

The sticks are shorter too, so they move around less, but I can still imagine FPS games like Call of Duty as very playable. The deadzones were appropriate in all of the games I played; Uncharted felt completely familiar. The rubber grips on top of the sticks are small, and my hands weren't sweaty, so I can't say how they'll work in an intense session.

[drepsx3]

They gave away an actual Vita?

[CandyHam]

@drepsx3 No, an "IOU" for one. He'll get it a day before launch, though.

[tbaxt3r]

Yeah it would go to the poor nerd guy that lives in his parents basement

[akeem630]

cool we can keep it

[death13935893]

@CandyHam that blows i get it a week before launch

[sgc3605]

any word on a white model becase i seen hundreds of finger prints on that black one

[highoffcoffee496]

@candyman thanks so much for the feedback :)

[unknownbruneian]

@CandyHam thanks for the quick reply, i was kinda worried about the sticks but now not so much :D cant wait for the vita >:D