I just booted my Vita after few years and it instantly felt much better & higher quality system than Switch

trikster40 said:
get one of those holders that add 4 buttons to it. Gives you more grip, and makes remote play fantastic. Gives you true L2/R2/L3/R3 buttons instead of using rear touch pad. This is the one I have:

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PSA: This HORI thing is expeeeensive... (I still want one :messenger_downcast_sweat:)

Vita is Binding of Isaac! My most played game 2019 on a Sony console... my one Vita is hacked with a 200GB-SD-card (remember the times, when PS+ gave you at least 2 Vita games a month and then you tried to put them on your measly shitty proprietary memory card?) I still need to get into setting up the newest retroarch, because I crave handheld retro gaming and my hacked 3DS just doesn't cut it (even with the nice option to put single emulated games as full titles into the main menu...anybody know if this is somehow possible with the Vita?).
 
I've never seen a Vita in person. GAF is the only place I've even heard of it.
 
Get that thing hacked. It's worth it!

- "Free games"
- Homebrew games
- Emulators
- Micro SD card support. All you need is an adapter that cost a few £/$ and any micro SD card of your choice
- Over clocking for better performance in games
- Use it as an SDK if you want to make your own Vita games or apps
 
I love my vita. And i use my pstv almost daily - i have become adept at playing turn based games on the treadmill.

I don't use the vita itself as much as i used to, but still do when im heavily invested in a game.

Kind of curious about hacking it.
 
In terms of services, maybe build quality even -> Yes. Vita was underrated in that aspect.

For everything else no, Switch is so much better:

- Specs (and i put the display in there as well cause it's HD at least) are better

- Games are so much better

- The system is more versatile, i can play 2 players on the go on the same system which is a very fun novelty.

Self High Five said:
Ewww...doesn't the Vita have a bunch of ports I can already buy on PC/consoles?

What is the value of playing that on a handheld.....oh wait, it's not 2013.....the goalposts moved....console quality ports on the go is all the rage now due to the big N's "seal of approval™"
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I've never understood that rethoric.

The benefits of playing on the go have always been there since the very first Game Boy: Playing Tetris on the go was huge.
 
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FStubbs said:
In 2017 you literally were not going to be able to build a handheld more powerful than the Switch, so I'm not sure how the Switch is crap and the Vita was not from a tech perspective.
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Yes you could. The screen is terrible, the bezels are enormous and the plastic feels cheap. Also joycons are terrible.. small and drift like a mothef#cker. Gpu/cpu are fine though.

still love my Switch but it doesn't look like a hightech device where the Vita does. Also we are comparing 2011 tech and design vs 2017. This fact alone says enough :)
 
trikster40 said:
get one of those holders that add 4 buttons to it. Gives you more grip, and makes remote play fantastic. Gives you true L2/R2/L3/R3 buttons instead of using rear touch pad. This is the one I have:

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This looks cool, I see it's made by HORI but what's it called?
 
Switch in itself is fine, it is those joycons that suck. But the console is fine, quite small, powerful, good screen (at least my launch model) and good speakers.

Vita is fantastic of course, extremely well built.
 
Mochilador said:
There are but they are just a watered down version of home console games like MGS2/MGS3 or PSP/PS1 games.
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I'm sorry, are we talking about the Vita or the Switch with this sentence? I assume the Vita because you are talking about an example of extensive backwards compatibility, but the first half of that sentence is what confused me.
 
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I'm not a fan of handhelds but I might buy a powerful one with a big screen. The switch just feels gimped. I would want a $499+ with a focus on power.
 
Everyone should play, Sonic All Stars Racing: Transformed, to see how amazing to see how that game runs on a handheld.
 
Other than the screen being OLED on my Vita, there is nothing I like more about it than my Switch Lite. I did think it was nice back when I bought it though.
 
The Vita/PSP had its issues but the Vita in terms of build quality alone is fucking miles ahead of the cheap flimsy Switch. Haven't played the revision but the OG is built to the cent.
 
I mostly agree. I loved Vita (especially the primo-feeling 1000) & when I first held a Switch it felt so clunky, cheap, unergonomic and like those joycon slots were destined to snap.

But Switch Lite is a different story. The materials aren't as high quality as the Vita 1k, but the sticks feel worlds better, and it actually has two functioning trigger buttons. It's also slimmer & much easier to hold for long stretches at a time. It's really scratched the Vita itch for me.

The only things I miss are the web browser & media functionality, and the OLED screen. But just like everyone said about the Vita 2000, the LED screen on the Lite is totally fine.

The one legit gripe is that the dpad is in an awkward position. I really need to get a grip for it. Hoping they do a larger revision down the road.

But overall I'm super happy with it. It's only been out a couple of months, but I'm about ready to put it up on portable Mount Rushmore with the Vita, GBA SP & Neo Geo Pocket Color.
 
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I just turned mine on last week. It had some touch issues for the first few uses but damn does that thing still feel great. It's probably the definitive PS1 emulation machine and the big PS3/PS4 indies all felt like they were at their best on it. I think my best times with it were playing Rogue Legacy, Velocity 2X, Hotline Miami 1 & 2 and Olli Olli on it on my train rides to work, then saving them to the cloud and picking up again on PS4. I almost wish Sony would make a premium Remote Play device for PS5, with the option to run certain games natively.

Sony should have taken a lesson from Nintendo and how they sell their handhelds by bringing ports of classic games from the last 1 or 2 console generations to have that magic moment when you're playing it on a handheld. They should have had early PS3 titles like Demon's Souls, Call of Duty 4 (it was on Wii) and Oblivion on it.
 
It's a nice piece of hardware, especially for the time. It has that premium feel to it which the switch definitely lacks. Once hacked it probably is the best portable emulation machine as it can emulate ps1 perfectly, n64(emulates well, will get better), anything lower, plus perfect PSP emulation and someone got a dreamcast emulator working quite well on it recently. The dpad feels really nice too. There's a lot of weird downsides also, like small face buttons, weird back touchpad, no r2/l2, I'm not too fond of the analogue sticks either. Plus a lot of ports of games like Borderlands 2 were pretty terrible. It seems like more of an unfocused experiment by Sony looking back on it. Still, I finished Earthbound, FF7, Parasite eve I & 2, Chrono trigger on it and had an absolute blast, with the OLED and clicky controls it's a really nice way to play games like those. I'll probably keep using it to play older games for a long time yet
 
Azelover said:
Yeah, games is all that matters.

Hardware could be Atari 2600 level for all I care..
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this almost sounds like a 'graphics are better than gameplay' post. which is always funny to be.

oh youd like a great game but no graphics, okay, here you go.
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Nah, man. Vita has no games and the ones it has are bad or not that good.

Here's what y'all Sonyboys don't get about the Switch or even Vita's killer, the 3DS: they have great games.

"Uhhhg but it looks like a toy" yeah but you don't look that manly playing anime games on your PS Vita, you know?
 
GAMETA said:
Nah, man. Vita has no games and the ones it has are bad or not that good.

Here's what y'all Sonyboys don't get about the Switch or even Vita's killer, the 3DS: they have great games.

"Uhhhg but it looks like a toy" yeah but you don't look that manly playing anime games on your PS Vita, you know?
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Your so wrong saying the Vita has no games.
Here's what y'all haters say about the Vita having no games when we have

Souls Sacrifice
Uncharted Golden Abyss
Gravity Rush
Persona 4 Golden
Danganronpa series
God of War collection
and on and on

No matter how much I love my Switch and other Nintendo handhelds the Vita was a great system for it's time , to just blanket say it has no good games is being ignorant.
I still buy Vita games to this day.
 
I owned one solely for Persona 4, now that P4G is on Steam and it's other great games like Gravity rush, tearaway have all migrated to ps4, I just don't see the point in owning one any more. The og one was the best but also had the stupidest custom charging port.
 
GAMETA said:
Nah, man. Vita has no games and the ones it has are bad or not that good.

Here's what y'all Sonyboys don't get about the Switch or even Vita's killer, the 3DS: they have great games.

"Uhhhg but it looks like a toy" yeah but you don't look that manly playing anime games on your PS Vita, you know?
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I put down the 3DS after a couple games because they were all just inferior sequels to storied Nintendo franchises.

Vita had a lot more plain fun and interesting stuff. Even if a lot of them were multiplatform indies, they weren't on 3DS and they were at their best on Vita.
 
Didn't like the Vita. The analog sticks felt bad and not clicky, no L2/R2 hindered the kind of experiences they were trying to sell (including remote play), back touch panel was a poor gimmick, and lastly that bubbly UI was really unappealing.
 
Currently playing rogue company on switch and the joy con are complete trash for anything first or third person shooter. Being full cross play kills it.

PSVita had few FPS but at least I remember having fun playing Killzone. This and PSP are such cool system with tons of hidden gems. I really like all of the little gimmick Vita had at launch.
 
DESTROYA said:
Your so wrong saying the Vita has no games.
Here's what y'all haters say about the Vita having no games when we have

Souls Sacrifice
Uncharted Golden Abyss
Gravity Rush
Persona 4 Golden
Danganronpa series
God of War collection
and on and on

No matter how much I love my Switch and other Nintendo handhelds the Vita was a great system for it's time , to just blanket say it has no good games is being ignorant.
I still buy Vita games to this day.
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The Vita is also backwards comp with EVERY psp/ps1 game. If Sony had only ditched their horrible overpriced memory card. Something I see affecting next gen consoles. (the proprietary ssd shit for next gen games/xbox's thing)
 
I have to say, in terms of user interface and usability, in the context of when it was released and what it is:
IMO the Vita IS BY FAR the best PlayStation system EVER made.

for a system of its type and time I couldn't tell you a thing that was actually bad about it. it was a really well made system.
but Sony had to kill it by selling it with no storage, meaning you can't even play most retail games and having a super expensive storage solution that was ridiculously expensive even at the time of release.

that is especially fucking sad given that the PSPgo had 16!!! GIGABYTES!!! of internal storage.
that reminds me, there is a thing that is actually something I would criticize about it... why the fuck can the PSPgo dock to a TV and connect to a DualShock 3 to play games on the TV, but the Vita can't? I get that some games use the touchscreen but still, thosw who don't could easily be playable.
 
The good thing about Switch-Vita and PSP is that you can hack them and over clock. I have v1 switch. I bump up cpu to 1480 mhz ... to elimiate hiccups...

same with PSP and vita .. putting in extra 100+ mhz helps.
 
01011001 said:
I have to say, in terms of user interface and usability, in the context of when it was released and what it is:
IMO the Vita IS BY FAR the best PlayStation system EVER made.

for a system of its type and time I couldn't tell you a thing that was actually bad about it. it was a really well made system.
but Sony had to kill it by selling it with no storage, meaning you can't even play most retail games and having a super expensive storage solution that was ridiculously expensive even at the time of release.

that is especially fucking sad given that the PSPgo had 16!!! GIGABYTES!!! of internal storage.
that reminds me, there is a thing that is actually something I would criticize about it... why the fuck can the PSPgo dock to a TV and connect to a DualShock 3 to play games on the TV, but the Vita can't? I get that some games use the touchscreen but still, thosw who don't could easily be playable.
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Originally the extra slot on the 1000 was going to have an adapter to connect to your tv. Proto Vita could do this, on top of having a sd as storage/being more like the go.



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Yes this was literally a Switch before the Switch LMAO.
 
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Got my Vita in 2015 and fucked my 3DS off apart from playing Pokemon Sun in 2016. I loved playing it. All the good times we had, Dangan Ronpa to V3, waking up before everyone in my friends house before everyone else and starting Steins;Gate in 2016 with my headphones on at 9am. Playing Resident Evil Revelations 2 at 20fps while it looked like an N64 game, playing MGS2 at 60 FPS and falling in love with that game all over again. Truly a blessed handheld... But then you had to drift on me and you hurt me ever since.
 
SLoWMoTIoN said:
Originally the extra slot on the 1000 was going to have an adapter to connect to your tv. Proto Vita could do this, on top of having a sd as storage/being more like the go.



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Yes this was literally a Switch before the Switch LMAO.
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PSP actually had TV out. PSP is still the best Sony portable effort imo, deserves the success it had. Always felt the Vita was a a simple by the numbers iteration (with some back steps as well).
 
jts said:
PSP actually had TV out. PSP is still the best Sony portable effort imo, deserves the success it had. Always felt the Vita was a a simple by the numbers iteration (with some back steps as well).
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The PSP1000 was probably designed to have tv-output, since UMD-VIDEO discs are 720x480 AVC video and PSP screen is 480x272. I guess they swapped it with a serial port in order to cut initial costs. Or maybe because the didnt want to deal with composite output back in 2004 and they waited for a cheap component solution.

GP2X came out in late-2006 with tv-output tho, one year before the PSP2000.
 
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