Hey there everybody. As announced last week , PS Vita System Software update 2.00 arrives today, paving the way for PS Plus support for the system, which rolls out tomorrrow.
However, there are a number of other changes inbound too. One of the major feature enhancements has been to the browser, with updates to display performance and general functionality. You will now also be able to Tweet a link from directly within the browser.
The 2.00 update also introduces new Content Manager features, allowing wireless content transfer between PS Vita and PC. Users will also be able to browse folders on their PC or PlayStation 3 system and copy them right onto their PS Vita.
Elsewhere, a new email app has also been added to the browser that allows users to add up to five email accounts and 5,000 contacts. On-screen notifications let PS Vita players know when they’ve received a message so you can keep in touch anywhere, anytime.
Here’s a quick summary of what you can expect to see once you’ve downloaded the update:
Web Browser
- Enhanced performance of the web browser along with improved support of HTML 5 and JavaScript.
- PS Vita users will have the ability to Tweet web page addresses.
- PS Vita users will be able to check, read and send email directly from the system.
Content Management
- PS Vita users will be able to wirelessly transfer content between PS Vita and PC, in addition to browsing folders on PS3/PC and copying them to PS Vita.
- Display photos imported via PS3 and PC.
Settings for PSone classics
- PS Vita users will be able to assign controller buttons to touchscreen, rear touch pad and buttons on their system.
- Custom screen mode option for flexible screen size adjustment.
For more information and a full list of enhancements, see our full 2.00 FAQ.












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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 1:09 pm by Crack-Davidson
Does the e-mail app support Hotmail??
Please answer
And you haven’t said anything about the wipeout thing…
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 1:10 pm by manutreble
@coolrichy why did you bothered commenting on this when you don’t like it
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 1:12 pm by OttoT
Much needed update. But:
Please add multiple accounts.
Please let me use the Vita as a controller for PS3.
Please add remote play.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 1:12 pm by DAVIE222
now we need an official playstation app / ps blog app
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 1:21 pm by Flibble1
this is great but any update on remote play coming to more games? it was advertised as coming for killzone 3 at least? thanks
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 1:40 pm by tim0manskywalker
Hi, slightly off topic question here:
I’ve been trying to pre-order PS all stars battle royale from AU PSN but was unable to find it, Can you check on this? Heaps of thanks!
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 1:43 pm by Tieske
Can we also copy wirelessly from Mac or only from PC?
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 1:47 pm by RoboAddy
do your part, flag coolricky as abuse/spam/grief
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 1:50 pm by OttoT
During the update my PSVita got a Blue Light of Death.
Just revored it and it’s ok again. Second time this is happening, not happy about that.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 1:58 pm by B_BOPPER
Can somebody help?.If i download a vita plus game on vita can i save that full game to ps3 as to keep it when the free games rotate so i can then delete off my vita then down the line re download from the ps3 so keeping the game collection is this possible?
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 1:59 pm by ABTR
great update Fred but,1) why not wirelessly transfer content between ps3? with pc its amazing to do that and works fine 2) after the update in settings menu i see the PSM Runtime Package what is that? i select it and update in version 1.0 the PSM store is not available to Greek store 3) the email app not support hotmail you must do that manual there some tutorial how to do that? i don’t know what is host name, IMAP protocol, outgoing mail, incoming mail ? please answer or anyone else know how to use hotmail in this app? Thanks
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:04 pm by OttoT
@B_BOPPER You don’t need to save the full game to PS3. It will stay in your download list forever. So go ahead and delete it.
Make sure the save files are uploaded to your cloud. Thats a new function and I’m not sure if it works.
Hope that helps
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:05 pm by monoliet
love email.
stil need remote play.
need lots good games like ragnorak odysee – MONSTERHUNTER ? … hury upp vita wil only gain momentum by
1 = cheaper price vita
2 = cheaper price mem cards
3 = lots beter games = only wil come when u sel enof vita
on ps3 only 4 tings needed before total happy
1= u tube
2= in store be abbel to use prepay cards !!!!
3= europe on same day like al rest + corect price in store
4= remove spam singstar
ps4 = 400-499€ no ps3 games = 400€
good mem so lesser freezes
dowloading in background = when u play .
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:10 pm by B_BOPPER
Hi Fred is sonic 1 and 2 coming to plus this week?
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:11 pm by monoliet
ABTR
u can pic option to input u self other type of mail
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:12 pm by monoliet
option = other
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:14 pm by B_BOPPER
@Otto T.Yeah i get it now thanks.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:15 pm by JohnoBoy
@Tieske the Mac appears to have been updated as well, although I haven’t managed to get the sync working on PC or Mac
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:16 pm by Certinty
Web browser is a lot better, still not great but it’s good. Can definitely see myself using it occasionally when not around my laptop and phone.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:19 pm by DAYDANNY666
“which rolls out tomorrrow”
I downloaded “2.00 today and installed it!
Finally can use web browser in game yey.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:19 pm by JohnoBoy
@Tieske ignore my previous comment, it’s working on MAc. My PC still doesn’t connect, though
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:27 pm by Certinty
Motorstorm RC is on offer for £3.19 and the offer ends tomorrow. Does that mean tonight or tomorrow night? If it’s tomorrow night then we’ll get an extra 20% off the £3.19?
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:28 pm by RealHunnymonster
So, when PSPlus comes to the Vita how do we think it will look for those of us with kids (who have a Vita and whose parents did the honest thing and didn’t lie at the start to give the kids their own “full” account)? – my bet is that I’ll still not be able to buy a “Plus” for the sub-account and nor will the sub-account inherit my “Plus” so your next generation of customers will be put off once more.
The idea that the Plus isn’t allowed because under 18s can’t enter a rolling contract is risible – it’s simple, then don’t allow it to be auto-renewed on a sub-account (or only allow the Plus to be bought by the master and assigned to the sub-account).
Or (of course) allow the sub-account to be converted to a stand-alone.
Just waiting for Hell to freeze over now
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:32 pm by DAYDANNY666
@Crack-Davidson
Hotmail is sort of closing but will turn from Hotmail into outlook.com so no Hotmail but you can manally input the incoming mail sever,outgoing sever and then put your email in and boom it should work.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:49 pm by Coody-Baroody
Was REALLY looking forward to this update but its another anticlimax. The browser still wont play videos on websites (I thought thats what this HTML support was for?), the email app wont work with my Hotmail account, at least I cant get it to work anyway and the dpad and buttons STILL dont work on ALL apps.
The PS Plus Auto Download is also a mystery. All it asks is if you want it done automatically, doesnt give you a timeframe or anything.
The big improvement though is definitely with Content Mananger.
Good Job Sony, almost.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:53 pm by Coody-Baroody
@72 Cernity
No mate im afraid not, the sale that MS RC is sn at the moment will be replaced tomorrow when the store updates. It’ll be £3.19 until the store updates tomorrow. Then it’ll whatever price the Update puts it at.
Anyway, this is SONY were talking about here. Do you REALLY think they would give 20% off a price thats already about 25% lower than normal? Exactly.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 2:57 pm by DAYDANNY666
I got Hotmail to work in the email app
protocol pop
incoming mail settings
Host name Pop3.live.com
user name Your email
password Your email password
outgoing mail settings
Host name smtp.live.com
Username your email
password Your email password
Ok and it will work
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 3:15 pm by dgnfly
how about instead off this making more psp games available for psvita or more ps1 games it’s supposse 2 be a gaming machine yet hardly any games.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 3:43 pm by undergroundgr
great upgrade.want to see more like this one.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 3:44 pm by kivi95
10# I would like a guide aswell
. I mean what is username? All I know is my email and password.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 4:28 pm by Hellas-ICXC
Nice update, also if you can, add to the Vita the Hellenic language as one of the system’s languages, that would be very helpful especially in the web browsing, thanks.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 4:33 pm by DenSchmerz
Whether there will be a support of subtitles, and if yes, that what?
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 5:37 pm by smallpod
Can you confirm that any games on the vita system, that were part of the ps plus package on the ps3, will automatically update so that they are playBle again. Because these games were downloaded on the PS3 and then transferred onto the vita once my first year of plus ended i have been unable to play these. I am still a plus member!!
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 6:01 pm by ABTR
Thanks DAYDANNY666 with this settings hotmail works fine
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 6:14 pm by AshishSahoo
Newest plus member !
I still hope I can download ps3 igc games through vita though!
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 6:23 pm by markopolouk
Nice update, particularly allowing the browser to run in the background. A few issues though:
Any chance of video streaming through Content Manager Assistant? I thought that was the whole point of allowing wireless CMA support, not just to copy the entire video over wirelessly (which takes forever).
Also, a bug I’ve noticed is that partial video transfers (i.e., cancelled before completion) tie up memory card space that can only be recovered via a format of the memory card. No idea how that passed through QA to be honest.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 6:24 pm by ABTR
@ JohnoBoy disable the antivirus when make sync with pc
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 6:28 pm by AlexAtkinUK
At this point can I assume then that I will NEVER be able to play my PSP Burnout games on my PS Vita? As it seems that support for additional PSP games is already forgotten.
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 6:32 pm by hayzink
any chance of adding media server support so i can use tversity as i do on my ps3 and my xperia s smartphone?
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 6:57 pm by wilodonnyGaS
since doing the update my vita will not sign into psn also my web broswer fails loading like the vita is dropping connection all my ps3 everything works fine so i know its not my network can anyone help
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 7:35 pm by timewarp87
Great update!
Please may we have an RSS reader which supports 3g and a Playstation blog app (like we have on mobiles) ??
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 8:26 pm by rodrigo1UP
Nice one guys!
I love the email app, i hope you guys keep bring more nice apps to the vita.
Keep the good work!
PS: Now we just need a easy way to change keyboards
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 9:14 pm by XSpike
A questions bout the new update. With Automatic updates when does it automatically update? With the PS3 you choose when you want it to check for new updates in download them. I see no option on the Vita for this. So when does it happen?
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 9:42 pm by bazzamc1
@wilodonnyGaS I am having the same issue since I updated my Vita.
Fred, do you have any details about this?
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 11:04 pm by Syrus_
This is a great update and i’m happy sony keeps the updates meaningful. I truly love the Vita.
Fred, when is the free games coming to us PS+ members? Really wanna get my hand on Gravity Rush
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Posted on 20 November, 2012 at 11:28 pm by NightRanma
Messages are bugged since the update for PS3 and Vita owners. Vita stuff sent to me (namely party chat invites, in my case) show up in my received messages on PS3, despite the fact that not even my Vita kept them after I used them (I didn’t turn my PS3 on at all while I was using my Vita, only hours after I was done).
And possibly worse, is every message I send to someone through my Vita, shows up in my received messsages list on PS3. That doesn’t even make any sense.
Hopefully this gets fixed soon. My inbox is going to get way too cluttered with this junk going on.
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Posted on 21 November, 2012 at 1:49 am by JamieIII
I started downloading this evening, it got to 99% then failed saying there was an error. Now whenever I try to redownload it it just hangs on 0%. Anyone else having a similar issue?
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Posted on 21 November, 2012 at 4:19 am by lagunareturns
Why is it a forced update?
So I must upgrade now to get and play Retro City Rampage, when and if it gets released…
Oh why is it delayed, please blame the devs again, the game was submitted at the same time as euro steam and xbox live…
It was confirmed by the game creator and I have confirmed from several sources that it has been submitted as well…
The delay is at your end…. As for waiting the devs excuse, what exactly are you waiting for that euro Steam and XBOX Live doesn’t need…
Clearly you pushing for exclusive content to cover the delay you have caused or pushing the devs for extra money to publish for the euro region or you are forcing the dev to fix bugs before the game goes live because you charge an arm and leg just let them release a patch.
All information I can find on the delay is stating that Euro PSN is the cause and yet you guys say otherwise and that is if it ever gets released, chances by the time it is released it will be way too late…. Clearly there is no care…
Oh you can check my PSN account no purchase for a month, I will never buy from PSN again until Retro City Rampage is released.
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Posted on 21 November, 2012 at 6:12 am by Japandaman
The wireless content manager feature…only works with PCM and not Mac? I can’t get it to work
Also the free games should be with us tomorrow, correct?
Thank you
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Posted on 21 November, 2012 at 10:58 am by FurryFreak
Looks great. I’m really excited, as I’ll be getting a vita for Christmas. I would like to know something about my old PSP games though. If I backup my PSP game saves on my laptop, will they transfer over to my vita nice and easily so I can continue playing, or will I need to start new save files?
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