| Conegamer said: They seem to be rather harsh. Oh dear... You can't compare a game like Angry Birds to Uncharted. You just can't. It's a gaming device. It may be handheld, but you expect the games to be on-par with those on consoles. Hence £40 as opposed to £1, otherwise, you could say all games on all platforms should cost the same, regardless of quality, length or production values. And that isn't right. However, I concede the UI is poor and the loading times are excessive. And the lack of any multitasking is off (I'm writing this on the 3DS whilst having Revelations on-hold). I can only imagine more of this thing happening in the future. |
Wah, you can use the browser while having a game running? Damn, there's so much I don't know about my 3DS yet. I just discovered the game note functionality...
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Don't care much about multimedia functionality when it comes to portable consoles as I buy them to play games. I'm allergic to bad interfaces so that may or may not be a problem, but the stupid proprietary stuff and the lack of BC are my main issues. There are quite a few PSP games that I want to play so I'll probably get a PSP at some point, unless there's...hrm...an emulator out there. I would pay for the games though, even get them new if I can! Promise! So, had the Vita been more like the 3DS in terms of cost, storage and BC then it would had made sense to me to just get a Vita instead.
I don't think all this will be a big problem for Sony though, if they understand that to really compete with the 3DS and other portable devices they'll need a library of good exclusive, portable games. Portable. Home console light games won't sell the system, and while the Vita can have games look close to PS3 games it won't be able to compete with 8th generation consoles. It needs games that are only available on Vita, great games that people wants to play, games that fits the format. And they can't just sit and roll their thumbs waiting for Capcom to give them their blessing (a blessing that might just go to somebody else if the pay is good), they have to come up with some system sellers of their own!
