We’ve had a slew of exceptional new applications hit PS Vita recently, like the otherworldly simulator Ecolibrium, Wake-up Club, and plenty of others. Today, we wanted to unveil two great new applications you’ll soon be enjoying on PS Vita.
Friend Network, already a huge hit in Japan and other territories in Asia, is a unique social application for PS Vita that allows you to interact with friends and meet new people in a whole new way. Guided by PlayStation mascot mainstay Toro, the app lets PS Vita owners visualize their network of friends and gaming buddies through the use of avatars in a colorful environment, and through growing their friends list, players can grow their own unique town space within Friend Network. With the ultimate goal of reaching 100 friends within Friend Network, lobbies are available where players can meet new friends and exchange virtual “business cards.” These cards contain information that players can use to get to know others within Friend Network.
Additionally, Friend Network comes fully integrated with your favorite social networks. Players can connect to their Twitter and Facebook accounts to see which friends are also participating in Friend Network and add them immediately. Players can also request tasks from their friends, like planting crops in their garden, to expand their town yard space. As you can see, Friend Network is a great way to maintain and grow your PSN friends list!
Next up we’re bringing you a one-of-a-kind music application called Imaginstruments. The application offers a slew of musical composition tools to potential PS Vita song smiths to create and manipulate a bevy of sounds and instruments. Our neighbors in Europe have already had a chance to begin crafting songs in Imaginstruments, but we’re now bringing this musical experience to North America.
Players can create whole songs from scratch and save them to on PS Vita memory cards. Using three distinct song creation tools, players can compose a virtually endless amount of unique music. Players can edit drum tracks in the “Passive” mode to create complex rhythms for their tracks, then switch over to “Active” mode to create melodies using instruments like the guitar or violin. The interface has been laid out to allow non-musicians an easy point of entry to create and craft songs without the need of a Ph.D in musical composition. We’ve also included a Sequencer mode, that takes parts of your drum and rhythm sequences to help you construct the song, and then record it. There are plenty of interesting ways Imaginstruments can enable you to begin crafting your very own songs on the PS Vita, and we recommend you try it out for yourself!
Both of these apps will be coming your way this Spring for PS Vita. We look forward to hearing what you think of new applications, and know that we’re always looking for new ways to expand your experience on PS Vita. Also, stay tuned to the PS Blog as much exciting PS Vita digital content is soon to come!
This made my day! Serioulsy, I played the PS3 one from the Japanese store allllllll the time. I even imported the Toro mini game collection game for PS3. Thanks goes out to the people who are bringing this over.
Always good to see more vita stuff. Both look interesting, I look forward to trying them both out.
By the looks of the screenshots, Friend Network looks like it’ll be filled with quite a few activities. Though is anyone else a little reluctant to step into “Toro’s Friend Dungeon”? And what’s happening in the second pic? Apparently lemon sorceresses have high defense lol
@Lisatsunami Well whatever the problem is (whether it be based on your area or what) something needs to be fixed. I’ve troubleshooted everything I can. I set my alarm for what I consider to be a pretty normal 8 O’Clock. I usually see mostly real PSN names in my group, and I’m always first place. I think the real evidence that there is a problem is that I’m always first place, but everyone else is always already awake (So I spend barely 1 second on the group screen where you can send friend requests) and I’ve never seen another PSN user still asleep.
honestly I don’t know if you’re supposed to hear people trying to wake you up on the “do you want to launch wake-up club” screen or not. But I’ve never heard anything other than my alarm sound. I do think it needs to skip the prompt to launch wake-up club and go straight to the alarm mini-game automatically.
This is really nice but i want to see new game announcements, how about a proper motorstorm game? god of war? gran turismo? new IPs? how about porting over Fat Princess, Dead Nation and Warhawk?
Thanks a lot for bringing over Friend Network! Could you possibly bring over Samurai and Dragons as well?
Awesome!! Hope Spring means really soon!!
Please update Wake-up Club to allow for custom music.
I’m really pleased with this! It sounds sooooooooo awesome. It reminds me of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing and Mii Plaza. I am certainly excited for PlayStation Friend Network and it’s awesome to see Toro getting the love here in the United States. This is far better than PlayStation Room which was supposed to be for the PSP. I’m guessing that Friend Network might launch in late Martch or early April? I sure hope this new Friend Network will have apps and support Google Plus.
Finally bringing Toro to NA. Why not bring his News game/app on PS3 (that is in Japan) to NA too?
Sony has got to raise the cap on the friends list. Now that we’re incorporating friends from both PS3 and Vita, a limit of 100 friends is too small.
@Don Mesa
Any word on when the next Ps vita firmware update is coming because its been a while since any new features have been added to the Vita.
No update yet but stay tuned to the PS blog.