Breaking down the PS Vita TV: Why Sony's $100 set-top box is more than a consolation prize

Late last night / very early this morning, Sony's PlayStation team finally unveiled a release date for the PlayStation 4 in Japan: February 22, 2014. That's just short of 100 days after the company's new game console launches in the US, and nearly as far away from the console's arrival on European shores -- a far cry from the PlayStation 3's launch strategy, which put the console in Japanese gamers' hands first. Instead, Sony's got another idea for Japanese gamers this holiday in PlayStation Vit...