Sony has released PS Vita update 3.71 into the wild, giving you an excuse to boot up your system if it’s been gathering dust. Despite the fact Sony confirmed plans to cease manufacturing the system this year, the PS Vita still makes a brilliant retro system for all those PSOne games, and Remote Play is just as solid as ever.
PS Vita Update 3.71 Does Little To Excite
PS Vita update 3.71 isn’t much to shout about. The firmware simply fixes the Trinity exploit for homebrew, which should put a stop to people attempting to hack the system. Give that Sony no longer supports the system with new first-party games, the format holder was never going to push out an update worth getting excited about.
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Sony launched the PS Vita in December 2011 for Japanese markets, and brought the system to the US and UK the following spring. The future looked bright at first; the PS Vita was capable of PS3-quality visuals, and a number of major exclusives were rolled out, including Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Killzone Mercenary, Gravity Rush, WipEout 2048, and more.
However, exclusives soon dried up, and the handheld failed to keep its initial momentum going. In the end, the PS Vita secured a second life as a companion device to the PS4, where features such as Remote Play kept it chugging along, not to mention the slew of indie releases that were still coming.
Sony is right now turning its focus to the PS5, which is reportedly going to launch in holiday 2020. Sony has revealed a boatload of features for the new console, including backwards compatibility with PS4 games, an SSD, ray-tracing, 8K, and a disc drive.
According to Jack Tretton, the former executive at Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), his former company will find itself up against ‘exponentially more competition‘ with the PS5 than it did during the current hardware cycle.