Hello everyone,

I felt like making a preview for the PSVita PS store, so here we go! :)

Please note I have a US account, so im accessing the US store.
Also, I used a PSN store prepaid card to buy games.

The store opened few days ago, after the 1.6 SW upgrade, before that it was offline.


1- Lets start from PSVita main menu:


PS Store card view:



2- When you start the app, the vita will connect to the internet automatically and the store main page will appear ("ALL" section):



3- Top Downloads section:



4- New Releases section:



5- Featured section:



6- Search:



7- Games Categories:



8- Sub-Categories (there is not way to view ALL games in a category):



9- Media section, nothing much for now:



10- Available PSVita games:



11- You can search by genre:



12- Game details:



13- Sub-menus:





14- If you were downloading or downloaded a game/media, you can view it in your download list:


Or in notifications (in main PSVita menu):



15- After downloading, the PSVita will start installing the app, and then you will find the icon in the homescreen:



In general, it is really simple to buy/download a game from the Vita PS store, you just add funds, buy then wait for it to download and install!

But some things I did not like, for example:

1- When viewing any game details, there is no way to preview it, like screenshots or videos, this made it hard for me to figure out what that game was, I had to either google it or youtube it on my PC, this is a really bad user experience!

2- Another thing, is the sub-categories, you have to view games in specific distribution, like A-D, E-H...etc, and there was no way to view ALL games in one list, which I would've preferred especially I was not looking for a specific game in particular, it would be nice if they added it later on.

3- No Demos at ALL, nothing related to games is free, except maybe the 3 trailers available in Media section.

About games pricing, I guess by now, you know about it for PSVita game.

The cheapest game is StarDust, which is AMAZING, short but worth the 10$ price tag!
Wipeout was 35$ and I think it is overpriced.
Some PSP games are expensive too, like upto 34$!

But in general, the store is really simple and clear, everything is in front of you, it is hard to get lost in menus, and downloading games is even simpler!

Another thing...

I noticed that the only way to back-up your downloaded games is by backing-up the whole Vita in content manager.

Only PSVita games were backed up, while minis were not (don't know about PSP games as I did not buy any).

Backed up games are saved in "C:\Users\Ahmed360\Documents\PS Vita\SYSTEM" in sub folder each.

Each game is saved as 2 files, one is (*.psvimg) which is the whole thing (big file) and another one (*.psvmd) which is 1KByte.

Thats all for now, hope you liked the preview of PS Vita store

Best Regards