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!
Cool. Toro, coming to America. Nyan.
“Both of these apps will be coming your way this Sprong for PS Vita.”
I can’t wait for Sprong to pick these up :)
Seriously though, the Friend Network looks really cool. Can’t wait.
Looks cool! I know this is a big ‘if’ but is there any chance you guys could update the music program so we could import created tunes into LBP Vita?
The Friend Network looks pretty cool.
Looking forward to checking both apps out! Hopefully their file sizes aren’t too big. I have to repeatedly delete items from my Vita (32GB memory card). It gets a bit annoying and frustrating.
Friends Network sounds neat! But my friends list is already full :(
even though i havent replaced my vita…obviously will with ps4 and all…im really liking things happening with the vita
With so many apps coming, it would be great if Vita supported folders…
Sounds good, guys. Thanks.
Sound like Animal Crossing I hope its just like animal crossing. And whats a sprong is that a new type of season. lol
I can understand that there might be an audience for these types of social apps, but could you please pay some more attention to creating awesome games for the Vita?
My relationship with my dear Vita is getting stronger over time!
Both look cool. Thanks for the writeup.
Seriously guys?! I don’t mean to be THAT guy, but I don’t understand why conferences speak so highly about integration, and PSP (and now Vita) continue to stand on their own as handhelds. You don’t need a NEW social network… You have one! Bring PlayStation Home to Vita either directly or via Remote Play and stop this shenanigans! /Rant
it would be nice if sony fixed existing apps 1st like wake up club, people doesn’t help you wake up at all if you leave the vita on at night and end up always being first in waking up
The Friend Dungeon….that name alone makes me laugh happily. And with Toro, it’s gonna be good.
So….the song thing is like Sound Shapes? The friends thing is cool though
@su43berkut17
I was going to ask about Wake-Up club too. I really want to use that app as my alarm clock but it really needs to be fixed. Any word on a patch?
As always thanks for the new apps too.
Woo this is great really two more apps that might make my first edition Vita a better paper holder. Since that’s all I can do with the big collection of games being released.
So is this truly coming in Spring or is it going to be like the Crackle app? Speaking of which, is Crackle still coming to the Vita? Does soon mean this decade or the next one? LOL Hate to be negative but the follow through on getting stuff to the Vita has been inconsistent so it’s hard to get excited for “coming soon” announcements.
I played both titles. They’ll be coming this Spring. Crackle’s still coming to PS Vita, just don’t have an update for you right now.