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thekin on 05 September 2013
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SxyxS said:
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BlowoverKing said:
Pretty good score when you consider most sites are reviewing the game as a PS3 game. I mean seriously why can't people realize that the Vita is a handheld and not a home console and review it's games accordingly.

Because the system and this game are promoted as console-quality on a handheld? It is a lot cheaper than the console versions though, so they should take that into account. 


But the fact remains that it's a handheld game regaurdless of what Sony's marketing team says. The Vita is a Vita, not a PS3 and comparing it's games to PS3 games is just wrong.

A 3ds game will get 90% ratings as soon as it reaches 80% console quality.Amazing a miracle-wizards created this game.Even the missing right stick will be ignored as something negative.

A vita game reaching 95% console quality will get 75% ratings,because the losers still didn't managed to reach 100% console quality.

 

Deal with it.

It's the same what we gave seen in terms of graphics.Games on Wii,no matter how ugly were never criticized because of lousy graphics.Noone cares wether there is AA ,frameratedrops or not.Games on ps360 can run smooth ,look good with antialiasing,they will be criticized for not having 2x AA,for not running with 60fps,,for not having super high res textures.

Somehow Nintendo managed it to be judged in a different way than others.

The reason the wii was judged differently, was because it was never marketed as a power horse that could do 720-30fps, if you remember the old wii commercials they were not about graphics, it was about having fun playing games, that was why wii games were reviewed based on the amount of fun you could get out of the titles. But that was not the case for PS360, their main marketing point was that they could do pixel shedders, 720p and constant 30 fps. So when the game could not fulfill these marketed expectations, the games got reviewed poorly.

It is the same when you look at the indie market, best example are AMY and JOURNEY,

AMY- was marketed as AAA indie horror game that could compete with the likes of silent hills.

JOURNEY – was marketed as a game of exploration and discovery.

You see in JOURNEY’S case, the dev did not market the graphics of the game as a selling point so when people played the game the main thing they focused on was “exploration and discovery”. But in AMY’S case the game was compared to other AAA horror games because that was what it was marketed as.

That is the same problem the vita is having now, Sony and a lot of Devs keep saying and marketing the system as a PS3 but portable, so when people are reviewing games on it, they compare it to what it was marketed as, which is a Portable PS3.