PS Vita suffering with issues....

While there's no real way of telling how widespread early Vita issues are, videos are cropping up online seemingly showing consoles freezing, as well as non-responsive touch screens.

According to Kotaku, one Japanese journalist has reported that, when the system freezes, the hardware will not power down. Holding down the power button for an extended period, as suggested on Sony's PS Vita help page, appears to fix this, but that hasn't stopped the issue repeatedly occurring for the affected user. The freezing issue has been experienced by pro-gamer Kiryu Tsukimiya too.

Some Vita owners are also reporting being unable to boot up their handhelds, despite them being fully charged, while one early adopter has posted pictures of the portable with what appear to be screen "stains" or "spots" on its OLED display.

Oh dear, doesn't look too good does it?

Oh dear

Surely these are fundamental hardware issues that should have shown up in testing

Seems the "Remote Play" feature also isn't working....

One of the PSP’s most interesting, yet least-usable features had to be Remote Play. The idea of playing PS3 games remotely from a portable device is enticing, and after seeing Killzone 3 being remotely played via the PlayStation Vita at Tokyo Game Show, it was a good sign that Sony got Remote Play right with their newest handheld hardware. But right now, it’s a dud.

I’ve had a PlayStation Vita now for two full days. And from the second I picked it up, I’ve been singing its praises. The screen is gorgeous, the hardware is fantastic, and it’s the best hardware launch in recent memory. But not all is perfect.....

Case in point: Remote Play sucks. At least it does right now. We tried a backlog of nearly 30 PSN titles and a handful of disc-based PS3 games via PlayStation Vita’s Remote Play; only PixelJunk Monsters and some PSOne titles worked. You know, the same exact games that the PSP can play remotely. Unfortunately, we don’t have a copy of Killzone 3 anymore, so we can’t confirm if even that is working at launch.

But we have to have faith. With hardware as decked out and powerful as the PlayStation Vita, I find it hard to believe they’ll just let this useful feature flounder again. Perhaps patches are required for certain PSN and PS3 titles to work. Maybe it’s something developers will work into the code of future releases, enabling compatibility with the PS Vita. Who knows?

What we do know is that Remote Play is a feature that can make the PlayStation Vita so much more appealing to PlayStation 3 owners everywhere, and is an opportunity that Sony cannot afford to sleep on. Remote Play on the Vita – make it right, Sony.

It just gets better