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Saros delivers Returnal 2 in all but name

Housemarque's Returnal remains one of the best PS5 games. Built to kill, raised to die, and fine-tuned to annoy the shit out me while dragging me back in for yet another go at  2AM.  Not-a-sequel Saros ropes in my one of my favourite actors Rahul Kohli into the mix with proper shields, greater weapons freedom, Indian-styled visuals, and borrowing  Xenon 2: Megablast's palette and violence.  Saros is set on Carcosa, a shape-shifting, hostile alien planet. It changes on every death, where a total eclipse changes everything (very Pitch Black!). The video shows the first biome, hopefully the others shift up the palette more than Returnal did.  Along his journey he finds Nitya Chandran (Shunori Ramanthan), adding some depth to the Returnal-mayhem. The stunning environment Arjun explores is that of a lost ancient civilization fueled by the twisted enlightenment of the eclipse.  Saros lands in March 2026, check out the PlayStation blog post for more details on w...

Vita TV killed off in Japan

Not 100% sure on this, but apparently the Vita TV has been killed off in Japan by Sony. With poor sales that were in the few hundred a week since its spectacular launch in November 2013 (largely driven by the God Eater limited edition helping it sell 42,000 on debut, it has been downhill all the way.

The odd thing is, having written down the value of the Vita TV (PlayStation TV in the west), there was no pressure on Sony to kill the product, which might have been a neat little Remote Play box for the growing number of PS4 owners out there. Sure, there's growing competition from micro consoles like the new Apple TV and Nvidia Shield, which have a steady stream of games arriving, plus other devices, but no reason to fold.
It looks like the price on Amazon has already shot back up. Not sure how long the dinky Vita boxes will last on western shelves so plan to pick up one, purely in case I decide to do any YouTubing off it in future.

I could write chapters about how Sony missold, mismarketed and missedthedamnpoint with the Vita TV over here, but not much need really. Even in Japan it was sold in limited editions with no game (like Yakuza) and other crazed concepts.

RIP little fella, we never really knew you at all!

 

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