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PS Vita TV and new PS Vita hands-on: is there life in Sony's portable system?
Tokyo Game Show 2013 is underway, and Sony's marked the occasion with a public debut for its two-point plan to save the PS Vita — the redesigned handheld is on show alongside the PS Vita TV set-top box. Vita TV has its own section in Sony's booth designed to demonstrate how Sony's portable console adapts to the living room. The box itself is impressively tiny, closer in size to a smartphone than an Apple TV or Roku, with an array of ports along the side.
Its most obvious function is to play PS Vita games on the TV; I tested God Eater 2, the upcoming sequel to Namco Bandai's Monster Hunter-inspired action RPG, and came away impressed. Though it's not quite the same as playing a high-definition console game, the image quality is...
