Eric Chantal here with Fly or Die, my co-host John Biggs, joining us from LA at the E3 video game conference. So today we're going to talk about the Sony Vita, and the Nintendo Wii U, 2 new gaming consoles that were the talk of The E3 right?

Exactly.

Let's start with the Vita. What is that?

Sure, so the vita is basically it's about the size of an iPhone phone. It's a very very powerful gaming consoles, an improvement over the PSP. You have two flavors. The WiFi flavor and a 3G flavor. The WiFi costs about $250, 3G will run on AT&T, and it hasn't been priced yet. But the improvements that you get from the vita are much better screen, you have the touch screen you also have a rear touch screen and control games from the back.

It's kind of, it's kind of a weird situation.

A rear touchscreen is usually a weird situation, isn't it?

It is a weird situation.

Yeah It's a considerable improvement over the old PSP, but my question is, is it a considerable improvement over anything else in the market right now? $250 is not that expensive but actually it's going to be very very popular with the PSP and the Sony .Not sure how well it will do in the general market.

I don't get the whole 3G AT&T connection, like, try to make it a phone, to me that's that just kinda shows they are confused.

I think studies planned they've already launched a phone called the xPlay which allows you to play a play station games in under Android. And their plan is to get play station games out into the wide audience which will turn short actual console.

Right.

But you remember the Engage, like Sure. sure.

a decade ago? It was a gaming phone and it really never took off and I kind of worry that that's gonna happen here. They market it too much as a phone versus just a the next generation PSP I'm going to give it a die just for that. You know, it might end up being a taco just like, just like the N-Gage.

The other thing that I think, I think they're trying to grasp at straws here, with going, doing the whole Android approach. Is this the first that the PSP is Android based?

This is. This is, and what has happened is they're actually moving some of the content to be Android compatible. Nobody knows what the Vita is operating system is, but it's potentially Android underneath all that. Basically just trying to platforms to these things can run on.


I'm giving it a die just because it doesn't seem interesting to the general audience. If you're really in to God of War, if you're really into Metal Gear Solid, you might want play it on this thing, it's kind of a cool console. But if you're a general gamer...

So basically with the whole Android thing, so you're saying you're going to be able to play regular PSP games and also Android games?

No, no, you'll be able to play regular PSP games on Android.

Oh, on Android. So the you know I'm gonna play android games on the Vita.

No.

Yeah, forget it. I'm giving it back. I think that the Wii U is a lot more interesting and it seems to me to be more of a step function improvement over the last generation. Why don't you tell us about that a little bit?

So the Wii U is a whole new console, it's an HD console at 1080p in which you're going to be playing video games in much better graphics . You have all your favorite there, all your Marios, all your Zeldas, plus you have some really cool games that you can only get on Xbox and PS3 right now including Battlefield, Metal Gear, any number of games that you haven't traditionally been able to play on a Wii.

Then you have the Wii U controller which is actually a six inch touchscreen and that allows you to do multiple things including turn off the TV or change the channel on the TV and then you can actually play the game that you just playing on the Wii U on the controller. So if your dad wants to watch you can actually keep playing Mario, whatever you're control considerably smaller on the screen but pretty cool.

Then you're also sort of dot mode.

The holder of the main Wii U controller to control other characters on the playing field.

So the 2 characters are running around, and trying to run away from you and you are like sort of like the dungeon master.

You are in a re you're playing with a regular controller.

I probably would have an advantage over you, right?

Sure! Sure!

Okay, well then, just that, I'll give it a fly.

Why? I give it...

I mean, anytime a gaming system sort of gives, you know, gives players an advantage over You know people who use the former, are the last generation.

You get a lot of upgraded options.

I'm going to give it a fly just for that.

I 'm giving it a fly just because it's much below than the V.
I was already disappointed with the movie's graphics.

This is considerably better.

I am really impressed.

And and then the fact that you can kind of,
you know, play the same game and sort of it doesn't matter if you're playing on the TV or you're playing on the controller or you know, or transferring it around, I mean, that sounds to me like a new type of game play that sort of almost makes it more portable, and you're not really locked in to any one screen.

which is very interesting, so.

Exactly.

So there you have it.

We actually agreed one die for the Vita and one fly for the Will U.
Join us next time when we'll look at something else.