I own pretty much all the systems.  I have all current and last gen systems among many other before them.  The one thing I see as I read topics on all the systems is that rarely does a person who prefers the 3DS over Vita cause trouble in Vita topics.  Sadly, I cannot same the same for the people who prefer the Vita.  Seems like every topic on VGC, IGN etc... that are 3DS specific have endless comments from Vita fans as to how much the 3DS sucks.  I just don't understand the hatered that people have towards a specific brand.  What has those companies done to them?  One thing I know is that most biased post come from peopel with user id's like yours....

It is very shifty behaviour not to give out review copies, and it only happens for a large game if even the publisher realises that it is terrible and that having reviews for it published would actually have a significant negative impact on sales.

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Doesn't Sony market the Playstation Vita as providing a home console experience on the go? Why is it wrong to judge PS-Vita games based on how well they achieve that goal?

@forevercloud3000

Thanks for posting this. Seems to me people made their minds before even reading the article. Oh well.

......... R u serious? Look at any vita related piece on this very site and come back and tell me that.

I suppose being compared to a first-rate, modern handheld is preferable to being compared to losing, aging consoles.

Meaning we must raise the standards for Vita games for the platform's own good.

whoever wrote the OP forgets that all things are relative. Reviews are relative to the system the game is on, the competition, the genre, the expectations/hope etc.

Also, Saying "x game is 3x better than y game because thats what the number tells me" just shows how badly the fault lies on consumers. Read the darn reviews (am i allowed to swear here?). Use that to make your judgement on the game. The meta generation needs to get their heads out of reviewer's arses and start think for themselves, or at the very least, don't squish an opinion down to a number, the number is the least important part of the review...

Why? Reviewers compare 3DS games to console games too. How else do you explain the chronic complaints about Kid Icarus: Uprising's control scheme, which follows the handheld standard for shooters? Or New Super Mario Bros 2's sub-80 reviews for "a lack of innovation." Or Paper Mario: Sticker Star's sub-80 reviews for "innovation we do not like." There is no double standard here.

what does that mean? The same way we judge an elementary student against his peers and not against college students. 3Ds is its only direct competition and psp is vita's benchmark. Thats how it should b judged. Not the top down method of rating it from a console pov. 

If u read the vita reviews u can see what fans r talking about. In comparison to 3ds vita  looks amazing.

True. But I think the PSV is favoured by VG journalists. It doesn't help the device, but still.

Funny thing is, PSV games are compared to PS3 games and get trashed and 3DS games are compared to PSV games and get trashed even more. That's how it feels to me. I mean, it can't be a coincidence that the review scores for 3DS games dropped HARD since the PSV is on the market or am I wrong?