As misguided as it may seem on Sony’s part in a world with smartphones offering smaller games perfect for arduous train journeys that cost a few measly pennies, the Vita is heavily marketed as a ‘hardcore handheld’ capable of console-quality games on the go. After all, handheld games are traditionally meant to be digested in bite-sized chunks, so developers make the appropriate cutbacks.īut the Vita is no ordinary handheld. Milestone argue this is because they wanted to offer a quick pick-up-and-play experience that you can dip in and out of on short journeys for example, and you can certainly understand their logic. WRC3’s Road to Glory career mode is the most glaring omission, meaning that, consequently, there’s no central career whatsoever in WRC3 on Vita. Being a port of the core console game, it’s unsurprising to find some sacrifices were made in WRC3’s transition to the Vita, which is a shame as many naive consumers will be expecting a direct port. We’ll be assessing both competitors, but for now here’s our review of Milestone’s maiden Vita project in conjunction with our extensive video play-through of the game.įirst, the compromises. ![]() I’m talking, of course, about WRC3 and Need for Speed: Most Wanted – two very different games with vastly different budgets, yet both represent the developer’s first attempt at a Vita game. Thankfully, two recent efforts managed to redeem the situation and show what the Vita is capable of for racing games. The usually reliable Ridge Racer turned out to be a shameful cash-in completely stripped of content, Asphalt: Injection was irrefutably expensive for what was essentially an expanded port of a cheap-as-chips mobile game and the least said about the sloppy port of F1 2011 the better. But the Deck is the deck and it's never going to be actual competition to anything other than the handheld PC market.Until recently, Sony’s slow-starting PlayStation Vita handheld was sorely lacking in decent driving games. We can't even fucking get that.Īnd yeah the Steam Deck is great and PC is unparalleled when it comes to PC i know i own a Deck, ill own a Deck 2 and i have owned a PC my entire life. I wish my entire PS1 And PSP collection i bought digitally on Vita/Ps3 would work on my PS5. I wish i could play PS3 games on my PS5 outside of cloud gaming. We are getting a at best cloud service budget handheld at worst a budget handheld that focuses solely on remote play. We aren't getting a Vita 2, we aren't getting Vita support on this handheld. The idea on paper is great but it's never going to be executed. I think it's not as big of a hurdle as it was when the Vita came out.Ĭlick to shrink.To the first point sony is literally doing the same thing with PS+ Classics, they sell you $70 remakes of a game that was remastered a few years ago of a game that released what 1-2 years prior to that? Let's not pretend it's just a Nintendo thing and to the second point yeah there's a big library and how's that library again on their flagship PS+ service? And when you do find one, you wish you had a vita d-pad. ![]() Next to impossible to find a gem, instead of a product that hates you and makes you hate yourself for playing it. Less satisfying than just scrolling through instagram or tiktok. We're just getting started with the steamdeck though.Īnd are we still doing the mobile gaming? For over 8 and under 60? I thought they were just considered a battery drain now - on a battery that is essential. And the old games are still in peoples minds with all these remasters being so popular. It's a super attractive model and as Sony, you'd want to showcase you're a believer of that too if it's not going to really set you back. Meanwhile you buy on steam, that's a game for all forseeable future handhelds you pick up. ![]() Same games on WiiU, full price on switch - with an online subscription to play the same roms you've bought a thousand times before to boot. They were good in the past about it but they've clearly gone in the complete opposite direction.
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