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aryu on 18 February 2014
MikeRox said:
So the Vita version remains the definitive version of the game even after the XBONE and PS4 ports hit. Good to know.

Damn straight it does and rightly so!



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justiceiro on 18 February 2014

There is no sucefull franchise on wiiu to use the gamepad yet. When(if) it comes, them you can count there will be a lot of alike them there.



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Podings on 18 February 2014

"after all"

You type that as if they ever actually promised that linking up PS4 and Vita could accomplish the same things as the Wii U does.

They never claimed that they could.



teigaga on 18 February 2014

It can as MM done it with the Little Big Planet 2 DLC, but no developer can be bothered to utilise this feature.



Xenostar on 18 February 2014
walsufnir said:
bubblegamer said:
Why would we want to emulate the WiiU when no one is buying the console itself?

 

Why would anyone want to build a specific solution for PS4+Vita when no one is buying the Vita?


Both damn good points, second screen gaming is just the next Gimmick that will fail hard. 



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Rogerioandrade on 18 February 2014

well.. the Rayman Legends example is really, really dissapointing. I was expecting that it would be possible to control Murphy with Vita´s touchscreen (like it is on the WiiU), but nope.....

It seems that Vita may work in a few games just like an extra controller and nothing more than that. Well.. it was not designed with that function in mind after all.



Rogerioandrade on 18 February 2014
justiceiro said:
There is no sucefull franchise on wiiu to use the gamepad yet. When(if) it comes, them you can count there will be a lot of alike them there.


Nintendoland. Wii Party U.



Nem on 18 February 2014
daxter100 said:

Vita options:

gaming hanheld= No , second controller= No, Ps Now =possibly NO
No love for vita


Games = yes?

 



MikeRox on 18 February 2014
Rogerioandrade said:
well.. the Rayman Legends example is really, really dissapointing. I was expecting that it would be possible to control Murphy with Vita´s touchscreen (like it is on the WiiU), but nope.....

It seems that Vita may work in a few games just like an extra controller and nothing more than that. Well.. it was not designed with that function in mind after all.


Given you can use the Vita in a Wii U gamepad style on PS3, I somehow think this is more Ubisoft deciding it's not worth the resources to implement than a technical inadequacy on the hardware front.



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Rogerioandrade on 18 February 2014
MikeRox said:
Rogerioandrade said:
well.. the Rayman Legends example is really, really dissapointing. I was expecting that it would be possible to control Murphy with Vita´s touchscreen (like it is on the WiiU), but nope.....

It seems that Vita may work in a few games just like an extra controller and nothing more than that. Well.. it was not designed with that function in mind after all.


Given you can use the Vita in a Wii U gamepad style on PS3, I somehow think this is more Ubisoft deciding it's not worth the resources to implement than a technical inadequacy on the hardware front.


Technically, yes, but unlike the Gamepad, Vita wasn´t designed from scratch to do that. I believe there must be some intricating programming to make it work like the gamepad, which maybe prevented Ubisoft to work on it.