| MikeRox said: I totally get what you are saying. But then when there is a Vita release that is exclusive (see Killzone) the reviews then all bemoan that fact they would rather play it on a home console. You don't see that for 3DS reviews. It's taken as a handheld title and left at that. |
I didn't read many reviews for Killzone, so that may be true, but I do remember IGN raving about how it was the first great handheld FPS and Eurogamer being slightly cooler to it for other reasons while still praising quite effusively what it accomplished as a handheld shooter. So the impression I got was actually the opposite: as a console title it would have been merely passable, but as a handheld one it was something special.
That aside, if there is indeed a point where a handheld game can be so close to yet so far from console quality that it turns people off - a sort of qualitative uncanny valley - then it's a bad strategy for Sony to keep hanging their hat on that kind of thing instead of things like Tearaway*. And even if there is, a quick glance at Metacritic's highest rated 3DS and Vita games doesn't indicate that reviewers have been unduly harsher to the Vita on balance. I think the Vita's troubles are less about reviewers dislike of it and more about Sony's own apparent disinterest in it.
* This time with marketing!
