Wow at the PSTV article:

First off, if you were imagining that the PlayStation TV might be a Roku or Chromecast alternative, stop right there. Though you can actually download and install the Netflix, Hulu Plus and YouTube apps for the PlayStation TV, none of them actually work. Let me repeat that again: you can download and install the apps, but they've been disabled for some reason.

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What gives? Sony didn't have a straight answer for us

Hulu is currently working with Sony on the issue, but a Netflix representative told us point-blank: "We have no current support plans for Netflix on PS TV."

And fond as I am of watching anime with Crunchyroll, the PS Vita version requires a paid membership rather than letting you watch ad-supported episodes like I can on any PC, tablet, or phone.

So I popped in my Borderlands 2 game card. The game didn't launch. I was greeted with this screen:

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I tried again with the Sly Cooper collection. Same thing.

It turns out that I'd forgotten one important thing which many would-be PlayStation TV buyers probably never learned: The PlayStation TV doesn't actually play every PlayStation Vita game. It only plays the ones on this list. And though Borderlands 2 is in fact included on the list, that meant I was spending my next 20 minutes downloading a patch to make it compatible rather than actually playing.

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A small selection of the many things you can install - but not play - on PS TV

The answer is that for whatever reason, many games have to be patched to run on the PlayStation TV hardware, and though Sony's had nearly an entire year since the system came out in Japan, progress is slow. Killzone: Mercenary is one example of progress: it didn't work then, and has just recently been fixed

Velocity X2, a critically-acclaimed top-down shooter, was one of many titles that looked a bit jagged and rough around the edges. That happens when you scale up from the Vita's 5-inch, 720p resolution to a 42-inch 1080p TV. Did I mention that the PS Vita itself doesn't natively output 1080p? It's an issue for games and video content alike. Even a $35 Chromecast played back episodes of The Walking Dead sharper than my new PlayStation.

And Borderlands 2, which is a PC game scaled down for PS Vita and then back up again on my PS TV, looked ridiculously ugly and often suffered from low framerates. This is all to say nothing of how older PSP games look blown up to the big screen.

But you also shouldn't expect streaming PS3 or PS4 games to be much better. Our sister site Kotaku has already weighed in on the insane prices you'll pay to stream games via PlayStation Now, but you may also need to physically plug in a PS3 controller and/or hook up the PS TV with an ethernet cable if you want to avoid an unplayable amount of lag.

Streaming Lord of the Rings hack-n-slash Shadow of Mordor from my PS4 to another room in my house was a bit better — and arguably the coolest feature of the whole system — but it didn't look quite as good or run nearly as smoothly as it did when actually playing on the PS4. I struggled to train my bow on an orc long enough to fire a deadly arrow, and that's with both the benefit of bullet time and a rather expensive Wi-Fi router serving my two-bedroom house. Still, it's pretty cool turning on your living room PS4 from your bedroom and firing up the game.

This is the point where you're probably expecting me to step back and say the PlayStation TV has loads of potential as soon as the software issues are worked out. And I would definitely like to believe so. The idea of carrying a palmsize game console to a party, whipping out a few controllers and having a blast with local multiplayer games like Nidhogg and Spelunky is hard to resist, and there are folks who might buy it for Minecraft alone

But realistically, the PS TV is now a niche of a niche, because the PlayStation Vita itself hasn't done insanely well, and if Sony couldn't manage to get some of its greatest hits and its crucial video apps ready in time for launch — a year after the PS TV's debut in Japan — it's hard to trust that they will do so now.

The system doesn't come with a memory card either,  a PS TV and the proprietary Sony memory card you need to download any but the smallest games

travo said:

The only time I did that was when the kiddos were watching a show and I desperately wanted to play Metroid Prime.  It was kind of funny and awkward playing like that.

I found it both hilarious and impressive that you can use the Wii IR pointer with the gamepad sensor bar.

Mario Kart 8 - behold Links' 'Master Cycle'  

Dvader said:

That pumkin!!!!!

The bayonetta voice actress article is hilarios, poor woman. Thanks GG for the update.

IT'S PUMPKIN, PUMP-KIN!!!

Some good stuff here, can't post it all, site wont allow hotlinks:

Gannondorf and R.O.B join the Smash Bros fray

More here^

May 2015 DLC:

2015 DLC for MK8^

I'm sick of Luigi's stare. It was fun for a while but got ran into the ground a while back.

It's bullshit.  If microsoft's console can't keep up then tough shit.

SteelAttack said:

I'm sick of Luigi's stare. It was fun for a while but got ran into the ground a while back.

Amazon has amiibo statues for pre-order: $12.96 each! I