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superchunk on 03 May 2012
oni-link said:
I think what superchunk( a very fair guy I must say) is trying to show is that the Vita so early in it's lifetime is already on the verge(if not already) of being obsolete in terms of hardware capabilities. In fact, Superchunk had used the higher rumored specs of the Vita which could be less powerful when comparing it to the S3!!! Once again SC good job on a fair and interesting article.


Thank you!

Someone who actually read the OP and gets it.



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superchunk on 03 May 2012
mjk45 said:
To my way of thinking if there was a Vita phone , it would sell at around the price of it's competitors and most likely come with similar spec in regard to extra ram etc ,also it would enjoy the same luxury of releasing upgrades every 6-12 months , now this sounds good from a phone point of view but not so much from the games side for a closed system , I'm mean really if Sony want a phone with analogue sticks surely it isn't that hard to add it into a future smart phone , and leave the vita as a dedicated games machine .


and they did do that. However the Xperia Play was bad in that it was a low-end phone at launch with no gaming library. Had it been Vita's power with Vita's library, things would have been drastically different. I'd own one right now for sure. Maybe a 2nd one for my oldest son.



superchunk on 03 May 2012
pezus said:
oni-link said:
I think what superchunk( a very fair guy I must say) is trying to show is that the Vita so early in it's lifetime is already on the verge(if not already) of being obsolete in terms of hardware capabilities. In fact, Superchunk had used the higher rumored specs of the Vita which could be less powerful when comparing it to the S3!!! Once again SC good job on a fair and interesting article.

Better than being obsolete before release!

 

lol, however Vita doesn't have the 1st party games to survive while being obsolete.



sperrico87 on 03 May 2012

We're still a ways off from smartphone games that look like Vita games... and god knows how many years from smartphone games that look and play like AAA console games.  Hypothetically speaking... even if smartphones did some day reach PS4/Durango levels of power, it would still come down to game control and exclusives.



 

disolitude on 03 May 2012
pezus said:

I have a question, wasn't Galaxy II the best phone on the market for a while (not just a few months)? Apple won't top this. Samsung...doubt it, since they have the next Galaxy next year. Nokia...don't think so

What are we talking about? Hardware? Software? Design?

Design wise, Lumia 900 and HTC one X easily wins over this.

Hardware wise HTC One X and this are neck and neck.

Software wise I think that its safe to say that Galaxy Nexus will still be king on the android side.



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superchunk on 03 May 2012
pezus said:

I have a question, wasn't Galaxy II the best phone on the market for a while (not just a few months)? Apple won't top this. Samsung...doubt it, since they have the next Galaxy next year. Nokia...don't think so

Yeah S2 was best at time and is still a top tier phone.

iPhone5 will be slightly better as its GPU will be a better standard (same base as Vita's). The GPU in S3 is good, but not quite as good as the PowerVR series. That's why I say it is relatively similar.

Its also why the iPhone4S GPU (even tho technically lower spec'd) performs really well still when compared to phones not using PowerVR that are a lot newer. One thing Apple does well is make sure the product they are using is very good, even if basic specs may hint otherwise. That is why I think the iPhone5 will match or likely beat Vita in benchmarking when its released and compared. Then like all Android OEMs each year, it will be passed by end of year.

Nokia won't because its on WP. MS, at least currently, doesn't seem to want anything to do with a tech war. Maybe just because Nokia and others don't want to risk the costlier hardware while WP has yet to really take off. They still have the mistaken view that phones and tablets are not computers and therefore don't need to present leading specs.



Cold Light on 03 May 2012

The raw power doesn't mean anything.




 

superchunk on 03 May 2012
pezus said:

Sony has never needed system selling 1st party titles that much. 3rd party is the key, and we'll hopefully hear all about that come E3

OK, but what happens with iOS and Android (maybe WP8) have the *exact* same 3rd party games? How many people would consider a bluetooth controller to sync to their phone/tablet that costs $50 instead of an entirely new console for $300?



Crystalchild on 03 May 2012
superchunk said:
oni-link said:
I think what superchunk( a very fair guy I must say) is trying to show is that the Vita so early in it's lifetime is already on the verge(if not already) of being obsolete in terms of hardware capabilities. In fact, Superchunk had used the higher rumored specs of the Vita which could be less powerful when comparing it to the S3!!! Once again SC good job on a fair and interesting article.


Thank you!

Someone who actually read the OP and gets it.

*Raises his hand* my sincere apologies to you chunk.

@topic: Well yeah, it's kinda weird to see how Phones are growing so much more powerful year by year, which is why i think that the next generation of consoles will be blown by PC's the day they are out.  the thing that will still give them (Handhelds aswell as Consoles) an edge over Hardware of equal strength is that they are dedicated to certain features only, and have their own, optimized operation Systems. (though i think this edge will be lost - especially for consoles - very quick.)



I'm a Foreigner, and as such, i am grateful for everyone pointing out any mistakes in my english posted above - only this way i'll be able to improve. thank you!

superchunk on 03 May 2012
pezus said:

Hardware. Isn't HTC One X pretty new? So we probably won't see an improvement until about a year from now


HTC makes more than one model line. Increadible has a new version coming out soon as does some of their other lines. They'll have at least two other major new phones greater than the One series before this year is over.