DEAR VIDEO GAME JOURNALISTS......

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F0X said:

forevercloud3000 said:

F0X said:

RolStoppable said:

think-man said:
Best article iv read in ages! we should be comparing vita games to 3ds games not console games.

And how would that help the Vita?

I suppose being compared to a first-rate, modern handheld is preferable to being compared to losing, aging consoles.

Meaning we must raise the standards for Vita games for the platform's own good.

what does that mean? The same way we judge an elementary student against his peers and not against college students. 3Ds is its only direct competition and psp is vita's benchmark. Thats how it should b judged. Not the top down method of rating it from a console pov. 

If u read the vita reviews u can see what fans r talking about. In comparison to 3ds vita  looks amazing.

No, no, no. You misunderstand - it's good for Vita games to be held to as high of standards as possible, so that only good games succeed. Therefore, Vita games must be held to the same unreasonable standards that Nintendo games are typically held, which is completely fair and beneficial to everyone in the long term.

I'm not seeing how that is benefitial to anyone. 3DS is never compared with Wii or god forbid the WiiU. It is compared to DS,PSP, and Vita whom are it's peers. When a reviewer says "This game could have been don on DS", that is a valid point to make if they feel that way. Yet if they were to start saying "This Mario game pales in comparison to Super Mario Galaxy WiiU", that is ridiculous.

Lets be honest here, when it comes to portable gaming, consumers are far more lenient on what is appropriate. Mostly because the games are much cheaper than full console games(or at least should be) and we only need them to amuse for shorter burst of time. So when consumers see these review scores, because we all know most don't even read them, they are guaging them for that basis. When you rate a portable game a 6/10 consumers thoughts go "Oh.......this must be a really bad game......for a handheld". The key part being "for a handheld", they think that score is propriated in relation to what handheld games should be, not console gaming.

The problem here is that games for Vita, in a perfect world, are a 8s and 9s for what they are in the portable arena, yet if you throw them against AAA titans they appear to be 4s and 5s. Not a fair comparison, and its almost being done on purpose in order to drum up hits from all the rage.