Sony says No to Ps Vita 2

[Mr Puggsly]

bonzobanana said:

deskpro2k3 said:

 

So smog, but don't laugh, school is in session.

Vita came out in 2011, with the A9 Chip combined with 512RAM, the only portable with a 5-inch OLED screen, with front and back touch screens and a lot more functionalities that I don't feel like listing right now. iphones didn't have anything close to an A9 chip until 2015 with the iphone 6, and don't let me compare it with the 3ds, because that specs doesn't come close either.

Of course I didn't address the second paragraph, because that one was more reasonable.

I don't think comparing the Vita to the original xbox is a bad shout. As an owner of both I can see similar performance in many ways. Obviously Vita has a huge amount of additional memory over original xbox in a situation similar to the Switch over 360 and PS3 but it still has a restriction on cpu and gpu performance. I seem to remember in theory the Vita had 50 gflops of gpu performance where as the original xbox was around 20 gflops but later information came out to state the Vita wasn't clocked that high and was nowhere near that 50 gflops figure. The powervr chipset does have tile based rendering which enables it to punch above its weight though. Still love the Vita and its games and its more than powerful enough for its time. Uncharted on vita did remind me of the original xbox because the textures were very simplified compared to the ps3 versions and you see the same effect on original xbox versions of the same games that were also available for ps3 and 360 like Call of Duty 3.  Any comparisons to the original xbox is pretty much a compliment to me, the original xbox was truly brilliant hardware for its day which delivered many impressive games that weren't possible on ps2 or gamecube for various reasons like Half Life 2 or the Halo games.

Yeah, I agree with your post.

People often wanna talk about specs on paper, but I suggest looking at the games in practice.

Games like Uncharted and Gravity Rush looked good even for Xbox standards. But having played Killzone on a TV, it actually looks considerably worse than notable Xbox shooters.

So Vita was a very capable device, but it wasn't the powerhouse some like to think. It was kinda like 6th gen console getting 7th gen games and that was just fine as a portable.