It's Hard to Hold the PlayStation Vita

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When I'd tell people to play Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, they'd usually make a crack about never using their PSP and then complain about how it hurt their hands to play the PSP for long periods of time. I call those people quitters. Yes, holding the PSP felt weird in the beginning, but when you played a bunch, you figured out how to hold it -- hold the sides of the device between the grooves of your palms, index fingers on the shoulder buttons, other fingers sprawled out on the back.

That crap doesn't fly with the PlayStation Vita. One of the big bells and whistles for Sony's new handheld has been the rear touch pad, and that means holding it like a PSP screws up games. I played Super Stardust Delta, tried to hold the PlayStation Vita like the PSP, and I wasted a black hole. I played Shinobido 2: Tales of the Ninja (a third-person action game where you sneak up and kill guards), tried to hold the PlayStation Vita like a PSP, and I accidentally switched into first-person mode.

Sony's planned for this problem. The PlayStation Vita has two groves on the back that are meant to hold your fingers in place when not fooling with the rear touch panel. I feel like these could be deeper, but they're a nice idea as I need to relearn how to hold a Sony handheld. And -- in a cruel twist of fate from those I mocked for complaining about the PSP -- using the grooves kind of felt like it was hurting my hand.

However, these observations aren't meant to alarm you. I'm still onboard with the PlayStation Vita. I still plan on buying one. I'm just saying that everything I've been doing in the portable gaming space for the last six years is wrong, and we're going to have to learn to get over it by learning to make a new claw with our grimy mitts.

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a interesting take on the vita, I like the idea of a rear touch screen but one wrong move with your fingers and you could screw things up.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
When I'd tell people to play Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, they'd usually make a crack about never using their PSP and then complain about how it hurt their hands to play the PSP for long periods of time. I call those people quitters. Yes, holding the PSP felt weird in the beginning, but when you played a bunch, you figured out how to hold it -- hold the sides of the device between the grooves of your palms, index fingers on the shoulder buttons, other fingers sprawled out on the back.

That crap doesn't fly with the PlayStation Vita. One of the big bells and whistles for Sony's new handheld has been the rear touch pad, and that means holding it like a PSP screws up games. I played Super Stardust Delta, tried to hold the PlayStation Vita like the PSP, and I wasted a black hole. I played Shinobido 2: Tales of the Ninja (a third-person action game where you sneak up and kill guards), tried to hold the PlayStation Vita like a PSP, and I accidentally switched into first-person mode.

Sony's planned for this problem. The PlayStation Vita has two groves on the back that are meant to hold your fingers in place when not fooling with the rear touch panel. I feel like these could be deeper, but they're a nice idea as I need to relearn how to hold a Sony handheld. And -- in a cruel twist of fate from those I mocked for complaining about the PSP -- using the grooves kind of felt like it was hurting my hand.

However, these observations aren't meant to alarm you. I'm still onboard with the PlayStation Vita. I still plan on buying one. I'm just saying that everything I've been doing in the portable gaming space for the last six years is wrong, and we're going to have to learn to get over it by learning to make a new claw with our grimy mitts.

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a interesting take on the vita, I like the idea of a rear touch screen but one wrong move with your fingers and you could screw things up.
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I really do not understand his problem when playing the old psp. I have no problems with mine even if my hands are a bigger than most people. The touch pad of some sort maybe a problem when holding it like an old PSP but I think Sony would have added an option if you want to or not use it. But if you imagine the grooves as the finger support or something, then that means your hands will be a little bit weird because you need your wrist to be as straight as the Vita which makes using the buttons a little bit harder to reach. I maybe contemplating on a problem that is non-existant but to some users only.
 
I'd wait for a actual person outside the industry has an opinion of that. IGN isn't exactly known for their fairness with Sony related things.
 
This is probably going to be a HUGE problem for me. I have big hands and I had a hard enough time holding the last PSP little alone having to hold it in a certain spot. I think I am going to wait to play a demo before I put any money down on the system.
 
Soulwatcher said:
This is probably going to be a HUGE problem for me. I have big hands and I had a hard enough time holding the last PSP little alone having to hold it in a certain spot. I think I am going to wait to play a demo before I put any money down on the system.
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As you should with any system you buy my friend :)
 
I have also never had problems with my old PSP. Maybe these are people that sit around all day playing and their hands begin to hurt simply because if you do anything to long, your bound to have problems. I am not worried!
 
Yeah, the power button was a little hard to access while holding the PSP in "gaming" position, so I would usually just turn on/off holding it differently. I never complained about this though as it stood that I only had to access it ever so often, haha.
 
Never had problems holding it before..not sure if I will now.
 
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