| Kynes said: I see we have different views on what is a tablet. I abide to a most restrictive definition, one that has a big screen (bigger than a galaxy note) and almost no physical buttons, and some of you to a less restrictive one. Having used an iPad and a 7 inches Galaxy Tab, I can't consider the Vita a tablet, as it's main purpose is to play videogames, and media consumption is a less important feature, and a tablet main purpose is multimedia consumption, and playing games is a less important feature. |
Tell that to people who use their iPads for gaming mostly or those who use Vita for multimedia purposes mostly. Sure they might not be in the majority, but they exist. Social and media apps are highly rated along side games when analyzing Vita's Near function. When it comes to the importance of the device, it depends on function. If a smaller screen device does practically everything a large screened tablet does, it then has tablet functions making it qualify as a tablet device itself. The main break away of tablets from computers is that they are all in one touch screen mobile devices generally with a sub par computer OS. The Vita is breaking the divide between handheld gaming console and a tablet, similar to how Microsoft's premium full Windows 8 Surface tablet computer is breaking the divide between a tablet and a computer. (though maybe not the first to do so, their device is doing that regardless)
I use to carry around an iPod Touch 4 as my multi media web browsing device, but after getting a Vita I have no more need of it. They are both tablet devices in my eyes, or the equivelent in function. If we restrain tablet to screen size than a debate about a Vita tablet is meerly about the size of its screen and I don't see how that would be beneficial to the device in penetrating the market. People didn't buy the iPad because they didn't buy iPods or iPhones afterall. iPad is meerly an option of screen size of a product Apple already produced. As the Vita is its screen is plenty big enough and creating a Vita XL, or Vita tablet, would be a financial disaster. Sony could take their current line of tablets and allow for Vita games to be played for it after adding some physical buttons, but what kind of ungodly giant device would that be?
Anyway, I still hold that Vita is a tablet gaming device.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
