A Sony booth worker holds up a PlayStation Vita playing the Uncharted: Golden Abyss game at Tokyo Game Show Thursday afternoon.
Photo: Robert Gilhooly/Wired.com

TOKYO and CHIBA, Japan — Wired.com’s staff came into Tokyo Game Show excited to get our hands on the PlayStation Vita. One endless bus ride, an aimless excursion on a boat and lots of polite rejections later, we were no closer than when we began.

Sony is launching PlayStation Vita in Japan on December 17 with 26 games, many of which were in its booth on the Tokyo Game Show floor. But the extremely long wait times to play games usually...