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PSP was a great handheld. Do you think the VITA surpassed it?
- Thread starter hwarang
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It depends on what you wanted from a follow-up. I feel like the Vita's library was (is!) very good, but it doesn't quite have the sheer variety that the PSP had.
The Vita played everything the PSP could and more (technically, since it could only play digital releases) which in my eyes makes it a better system than the PSP
The vita was incredible and, at least in Japan, had every non AAA japanese game you could want, even Catherine Fullbody.
The OLED screen was incredible at the time and it's still a really good vn machine, second only to the Switch. If you liked certain games/genres it is still really good.
The only thing that I hated deeply were the memory cards. Fuck Sony for that.
The OLED screen was incredible at the time and it's still a really good vn machine, second only to the Switch. If you liked certain games/genres it is still really good.
The only thing that I hated deeply were the memory cards. Fuck Sony for that.
I love my Vita (even bought a 64 gig memory card for it) but it didn't strike me as much as the PSP. I do prefer the feel of the Vita in my hands though, for a long time my Vita was getting daily use as a PSP/PSX machine. Too bad Sony is trying to distance itself from that library as much as they can.
Love both, and for me it definitely did as someone who likes Dungeon Crawlers and started to get into visual novels.
Yes and no.
There were far more original titles on PSP still worth playing today, while the Vita's library shined most in providing portable versions of games that already existed on consoles, albeit with pared-down graphics and longer load times.
Having access to PS1, PSP, and Vita titles still makes the Vita amazing, though!
There were far more original titles on PSP still worth playing today, while the Vita's library shined most in providing portable versions of games that already existed on consoles, albeit with pared-down graphics and longer load times.
Having access to PS1, PSP, and Vita titles still makes the Vita amazing, though!
I have multiple vitas and really like it but PSP was THE handheld. It was the device which showed what smartphones can be to me. Great games, good media device and much better supported than Vita. Vita was the better hardware but all Sony tried to do with is to make console quality games on it without understanding what works on a handheld.
Hardware upgrade to the Vita was fantastic especially if you compare the 1000 models. Software was almost even for me personally thanks to that short surge of indie games the Vita had compared to the PSP and there were some great Japanese games on it too admittedly in lower quantities. I don't think I purchased a single western non-indie game outside of Tearaway though.
I never had a PSP so Vita was my first foray into Sony handhelds. And oh boy, was that a trip! It wiped the floor with 3DS, both in regards to games and hardware. Hands down still my most favourite handheld system to day, closely followed by the Switch.
Hell nah. I loved my vita tho but that psp library plus homebrew was insane. Once the memory stick prices decreased and you could easily rip isos directly from the damn thing itself instead of fooling around with discs, it was over. Greatest handheld of all time.
First gen Vita with that beautiful screen, absolutely one of Sony's finest gaming products, plus it plays PSP, Vita, and PS1 games. And it's highly hackable. I have a white one I adore.
I get it's a failure, but as an individual product (one that unlike the switch [which I love] can play Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, Persona 3 and 4, plus the two Suikoden games, - and that without hacking!) is a beautiful, useful machine.
I get it's a failure, but as an individual product (one that unlike the switch [which I love] can play Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, Persona 3 and 4, plus the two Suikoden games, - and that without hacking!) is a beautiful, useful machine.
In regards to its native games? Hell no.
In regards to hardware though... Definitely! I mean, it's got a vastly superior build quality. It's screen is beautiful. It's controls are better. And it plays all the PSP games anyway...like at this point if you wanted a PSP I'd suggest buying an original vita and hacking that thing wide open.
In regards to hardware though... Definitely! I mean, it's got a vastly superior build quality. It's screen is beautiful. It's controls are better. And it plays all the PSP games anyway...like at this point if you wanted a PSP I'd suggest buying an original vita and hacking that thing wide open.
purely from the hardware perspective vita was so much more comfortable to play then the psp.
shame that it flopped so hard. the system got barely any good exclusive games to speak of.
shame that it flopped so hard. the system got barely any good exclusive games to speak of.
Kinda?
It delivered on the hardware and had some really amazing games. With that said, the genre variety wasn't as good as the PSP. We never got GTA or many AAA games on it.
At the end of the day, the psp library and the PS1 games being on it was good. So were all the indies on it.
The Vita truely shines when you hack it. That's when it becomes magical.
It delivered on the hardware and had some really amazing games. With that said, the genre variety wasn't as good as the PSP. We never got GTA or many AAA games on it.
At the end of the day, the psp library and the PS1 games being on it was good. So were all the indies on it.
The Vita truely shines when you hack it. That's when it becomes magical.
In terms of library, no, even though the Vita has a great one. There was just an absurd amount of Japanese devs showering the PSP with games. As with the PS1 and PS2, there is soooooooooo much good unlocalised stuff.
In term of hardware, absolutely. The Vita is still by far the best handheld ever made.
In term of hardware, absolutely. The Vita is still by far the best handheld ever made.
It did hardware wise of course but not game variety wise. Love vita to death but psp had a lot more to offer no matter your tastes
As a piece of hardware yes. Library-wise? No.
Vita had a good library if you were into JP games, but it didn't have the quite frankly ABSURD library that the PSP had.
PS3 development struggles meant all those developers turned to handhelds that gen, and it shows. Phantasy Star, FF, Metal Gear, Yakuza, Monster Hunter, and the list of huge and small games goes on and on.
I'm STILL playing PSP games from my backlog on my Vita.
And then there's the other thing both systems got right, at least in Japan: the PSX classics. JP side had hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of almost everything you could've ever wanted and then some.
Vita had a good library if you were into JP games, but it didn't have the quite frankly ABSURD library that the PSP had.
PS3 development struggles meant all those developers turned to handhelds that gen, and it shows. Phantasy Star, FF, Metal Gear, Yakuza, Monster Hunter, and the list of huge and small games goes on and on.
I'm STILL playing PSP games from my backlog on my Vita.
And then there's the other thing both systems got right, at least in Japan: the PSX classics. JP side had hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of almost everything you could've ever wanted and then some.
No, specifically because of software and nothing else to me. PSP was as good as PS1 to me (just not as crazy as PS2), it had such a huge library to explore, the literal only downside of that system to me was the single stick.
Sure Vita fixed that, but Sony aimed it way too high and nobody wanted to budget so high for niche portable games. They also called it a stupid name and fractured their well known product line to the masses. It's such a shame.
I don't blame the memory cards at all, PSP had the same expensive proprietary shit with Memory Stick Pro Duo. They'd just grab a 4-8GB card and rotate games.
Having SD cards would've made the "owning experience" easier, but not a deal breaker of buying one, if the thing had a nice library of games to coax people in.
Sure Vita fixed that, but Sony aimed it way too high and nobody wanted to budget so high for niche portable games. They also called it a stupid name and fractured their well known product line to the masses. It's such a shame.
I don't blame the memory cards at all, PSP had the same expensive proprietary shit with Memory Stick Pro Duo. They'd just grab a 4-8GB card and rotate games.
Having SD cards would've made the "owning experience" easier, but not a deal breaker of buying one, if the thing had a nice library of games to coax people in.
PSP probably had a better library/support on paper, but I could never really get into the idea of playing lesser versions of console games on a handheld, and that analog nub was awful. The Vita had much better indie and crossbuy support for my preference.
PSP had more original content but I found it uncomfortable to use. I didn't properly enjoy its content until the Vita because of that.
Pretty much in the same boat as most others. If we're talking about the hardware, yeah, I mean the Vita was quite the incredibly built machine. As far as everything else, nah. PSP had a pretty amazing library. Vita really only overtook PSP in the mass amount of indies that came to it throughout its lifespan.
