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superchunk said:

A15 vs A9 source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5571/ti-posts-omap-5-800-mhz-dual-core-a15-vs-quad-core-a9-13-ghz-video

That's a unfair comparision... the benchs uses JavaScript but it's not multithreaded for more than 2 cores.

So the A9 quad-core is underutilized.

From these specs:

CPU: Vita wins
GPU: Tie with Vita slightly better (+)
Memory: Vita win for games due the dedicated and fast VRAM but loose for general applications
Resolution: iPhone 5 wins
Camera: iPhone 5 wins
Storage: Vita wins because it's not fixed
Battery: Tie? I don't know
Connectivity: iPhone wins but you don't need that much.
Price: Vita wins



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BasilZero said:
leo-j said:
Although the vita is one of sony's best products imo, I'm glad apple matched the vita's specs if not surpassed them with the next iphone.. Sony need to be dick slapped pretty hard


Now that I think of it, its funny how no one mentions the 3DS, I wonder which is more powerful, the 3DS or the iPhone 5.

I already had asked Chunk to include the specs here it is if you are curious: http://3dbrew.org/wiki/Hardware , straight from an official teardown and dissection of the system!!! Pretty interesting site which includes pictures and stuff.  The iPhone5 doesn't really matter to the 3DS (it has 20M userbase at the moment) as it is marketed at a diffrent audience.  The fact, that the 3DS can nearly pull off anything the other two can do with a lower price is one of the 3DS's main weapons.



ethomaz said:
superchunk said:

A15 vs A9 source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5571/ti-posts-omap-5-800-mhz-dual-core-a15-vs-quad-core-a9-13-ghz-video

That's a unfair comparision... the benchs uses JavaScript but it's not multithreaded for more than 2 cores.

So the A9 quad-core is underutilized.

From these specs:

CPU: Vita wins
GPU: Tie with Vita slightly better (+)
Memory: Vita win for games due the dedicated and fast VRAM but loose for general applications
Resolution: iPhone 5 wins
Camera: iPhone 5 wins
Storage: Vita wins because it's not fixed
Battery: Tie? I don't know
Connectivity: iPhone wins but you don't need that much.
Price: Vita wins

in terms of sales:

0 units for the i5

~2mil units for the Vita

~20mil units for the 3DS

lol...sorry can't help it.



oni-link said:

in terms of sales:

0 units for the i5

~2mil units for the Vita

~20mil units for the 3DS

lol...sorry can't help it.

Well I guess i5 will sell more than 3DS but not for gamers.

For gamers 3DS is insuperable.



Jay520 said:
superchunk said:

I don't think its hardware is weak. Just that Sony's business model for it was bad, which is why I've maintained it should have been a smartphone. Sony's target audience largly won't buy a smartphone AND a dedicated handheld that besides core gaming, has less features.

Nintendo can do that because their handhelds target a younger market by default. One that will not have smartphones, but would like games and other 'smart' features.

So, Sony needs to either directly compete with Nitnendo (which it doesn't have the 1st party to do so) or directly compete with smartphones (which it already has the competency to do so). Of course it should still be based on a dedicated game console (i.e. controls and games) but also be a full smartphone.


Good points

Though I personally can't imagine a Playstation phone being successful. How would that even be shaped and formed?

I think the model they're trying to accomplish is better than the smart phone model. 

To be honest though, I don't thin

 

There you go.. android 2.3.. 4G/hspa plus enabled.. capable of playing most high end android games.. and.. a limited launch line up of ps1 games..

Sony discontinued it within a year..

they are supposedly going to launch XPERIA PLAY 2.0 which could be their biggest push with a playstation phone.. while probably running ice cream sandwitch/jellybean



 

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leo-j said:

 

There you go.. android 2.3.. 4G/hspa plus enabled.. capable of playing most high end android games.. and.. a limited launch line up of ps1 games..

Sony discontinued it within a year..

they are supposedly going to launch XPERIA PLAY 2.0 which could be their biggest push with a playstation phone.. while probably running ice cream sandwitch/jellybean

No analog sticks. No triggers (or at least, only one half). Small ass buttons. No curve for more comfortability. Etc etc 

 

I'm not surprised it was discontinued.



it has touch pads..



 

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Shinobi-san said:

WTF. Are you serious superchunk??? read the dammn threads man!

You said this in that thread (this is what started everything):

"My point isn't that the new iPad is a games console, just that these devices are already passing Vita and by end of this year will be superior in all technical ways (less controls of course)."

This was 5 months ago, at the time there was no phone out that was equal to vita !!!!! Yet you kept on you mentioning phones being shown off at MWC...most of the devices released/announced/rumoured then had tegra 3 or s4 chips. Both of which were not better than the VITA i even had to explain to you how tegra 3 was kinda shitty! Only after i told you that you then changed your argument .

In that SAME THREAD i said this:

"Im pretty sure though, that by the end of this year/beginning of next...most tablets and smartphones will be on par with vita and beginning to surpass it."

Pretty much spot on. I even went and highlighted the s3 and iphone (I guessed the correct spec of the S3 by the way you were waaaaay off, yet you still made a thread about how you were right back then!!!) you are deluded man.

After a hell of a lot of said and explained to YOU since you knew nothing about what you were talking about (if you did you would not have said phones been shown off at MWC were stronger than VITA), i then said what my main point was in the S3 comparison thread:

"Im not saying the PSV is waaaay ahead of the rest, but what im saying is that it is ahead at the moment (especially in terms of gaming performance), im also saying that in the next year the PSV's chipset will stil be relevant, id imagine quad core cpu/gpu combinations will only become the norm then."

And since you started the doucebaggery, you then went on to say this:

"Vita's chips are what all the next phones/tablets will have THIS year. In the next 3 to 6 months." <----(by the way this is you changing your argument from NOW to 3 - 6months.)

You also said ALL phones and tablets? HA. Bullshit. WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. It is bullshit and its exactly what i called you out on:

"Thats where i call total bullshit. NO phone/tablet thats currently announced or even rumoured to be announced, releasing in 3 - 6 months will have the power of the PSV especially not tegra 3 or S4 devices!"

To top it all off there was no rumour about iphone 5 specs at the time if i remember correctly...and when i said this WE BOTH KNOW we were talking about the phones been announced at MWC that fucken week. YOU ARE A ****.

"Im not saying the PSV is waaaay ahead of the rest, but what im saying is that it is ahead at the moment (especially in terms of gaming performance), im also saying that in the next year the PSV's chipset will stil be relevant, id imagine quad core cpu/gpu combinations will only become the norm then."

Let's finish the rest of your quote, shall we?

"And in the following year the psv will be overtaken, possible in that same year. My main point was that your statement about tablets already overlapping psv tec wise is simply not true at this point in time. Hell the new ipad hasnt even released yet."

Which means Vita is not too far ahead. That NEXT year, i.e. 2013, it will still be relavent and you image similar chips to just become norm then. Then you followed that with you didn't think surpassing the Vita would happen until 2014 or very end of 2013.

*******

Going through your quotes... I said the same thing in both those first quotes. My point in that thread was the new iPad3 matched the GPU. It was beginning to equal the Vita. That the convention just prior showed phones that would match and then exceed Vita. I said the same thing many times.

1) within 3 to 6 months Vita will be matched
2) vita will be surpassed by end of year/ early 2013

I think you are also reading too much into the MWC context. I did use those as examples, but clearly was talking in general terms to "phones/tablets". I only used MWC and expected launches of CPUs / GPUs as examples to show why Vita would be matched/exceeded in 2012. I also specifcally stated iPhone5 would likely have A6 that would at least match Vita. Granted, I was wrong and it exceeded it, but meh root point met. I think you either were not have the same discussion I was back then or you don't remember it well. But the quotes show I was right.

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Lets recap (paraphrase) each post we made in that thread to eachother. (not too many)

you: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4460397
you didn't show Vita being beaten...ipad3 still doesn't beat it....amazed as apple usually leads...apple will launch new ipad in 2013 that will match vita....other tablets don't compare, use tegra3, its worse than vita....meaning next wave of tablets in 2013 will barely start to match vita...also those cpu makers are exagerating their growth.

me: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4460421
android recently has been leader in tech, not apple but apple is developer leader....in next few months Vita will be matched from both android and iphone5, current tech rumored shows this....look at overall tech and you'll see it will be surpassed by 2013....then mobiles will have PS360 level games and so forth.

you: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4460461
you have researched and i'm wrong....tegra3 is quad core but is not as good as vita or ipad3....other tech like s4 is only dual core and not as good...those are best in current android....roadmaps for their successors show 2013 launches at best and they may not be better in real terms....psv is not way ahead, but next year it will be relavent as others barely match and 2014 finally start to surpass.

me: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4460746
tegra3 cpu is good and gpu is worse agreed, but its not the standard gpu for the cpu...not talking now but future products shown in mwc... vita's chips will be in phones/tablets THIS year.. in next 3 to 6 months...making this year equal to vita...iphone5 with A6 essentially same as vita...android oems will also be same and likely better as they normally do...next year will be quad-based but faster clocks /memory....point is by 2013 phones/tablets will as good or better than notebooks or midlevel laptops using docks and be more powerful than Vita/PS360....2013 i'll snag nexus or win8 phone that will double as laptop....(btw that was before Surface was announced)....listed source where S4 chips will be better than Vita by end of year....reiterate that Vita will be matched within 6mos and beaten soundly in 2013....followed by gaming specific prediction.

you: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4463496
you don't remember anything at MWC that is amazing or ahead of its time.....htc x uses tegra3 and dualcore s4 for US...listed few more devices that use S4 or dual core chips...metioned new Intel stuff that is probably weaker as well....most phones/tablets use tegra3 or dualcore S4 for this year and its weaker as is adreneo, all weaker than vita....you think i'm stuck on core count and ignore real specs/tests....agree to disaggree and Vita cutting edge rest of year and at very least might get matched but certianly not bested...2013 we'll finally see them matching vita and then after that (2014?) pull away.

you again: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4463502
adding more....next gen tegra/snapdragon won't come until 2013... nothign known for this year shows equal better to vita... meaning S3/iphone can't possibly match or beat vita.

me: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4463817
listed various links and sources with cpu/gpus all showing 2012 or late 2012 release dates... all of these are equal or better to vita. I did't even compare tegra cpus, just standard ARM architecture including A15s... reiterated point that by end of summer vita will be matched and by end of year it will be beat with 2013 many soundly beating vita and as 2013 rolls on it will only get worse.

you: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4463869
say I'm not reading same thing as you....adreno gpus weak vs powervr gpus...new exynos cpu are not going to be in any of samsungs phones/tablets announced at MWC....S3 will mostl likely get 4412 exynos which will be within same ballpark as vita cpu but worse gpu....quoted yourself that psv is not way ahead, but next year it will be relavent as others barely match and 2014 finally start to surpass...then called out my quote that Vita will be matched in 3 to 6 mos and said it was BS that NO phone/tablet that is known or rumored will match Vita in that time... then apologized for derailing thread.

me: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4463900
said we'll just revist as year ends to see who's right...thanks for discussion and it really wansn't a derailment.

you (FINAL ONE): http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4463904
said we'll only revist if you're right otherwise you'll be gone!

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So that's great recap of our discussion. Just take your crow man, just take it!!!! ;)



leo-j said:
it has touch pads..

It was  crap product that was a low-end phone in the first place and not what I mean when I say Vita should be a phone.



Argh_College said:
disolitude said:
At this rate Iphone 6 should be able to beat high end PC gaming in 2 years.

I can't wait for portable 3 screen Crysis 4 on the go using my 3 Iphone 6's is eyefinity.

Not sure if serious.

I'll also run 2 iphones in SLI to get better frame rates. It would be only 15.2 mm thick anyways...