Video game developer Team NINJA has revealed that Dead or Alive 5 Plus, the company's upcoming fighting game for PlayStation Vita, will come to the handheld system on March 19, 2013. When it does, it will feature cross-platform features that allow players to play matches against opponents on both PlayStation 3 and PS Vita while sharing costumes across both platforms.
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "While fully-fledged fighting games on handhelds have achieved varying levels of success in the past, they weren’t really a thing until the PSP. Prior to this there would always be certain concessions to get them running on weaker hardware. Sony’s powerful portable console, however, allowed developers to experiment with new ways of delivering their titles that would sometimes be hugely successful (e.g. Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection), which in turn meant new games were forthcoming throughout the console’s life. This mantra continued onto the Vita, which received ports of a number of high-profile fighting games, from launch through to the present day.
The ever-expanding industry of eSports has somewhat put a damper on handheld fighting games, as the fanbase moves increasingly towards arcade sticks, perfect latency, and other measures that always ensure a fair fight. That doesn’t mean the Vita doesn’t have access to its fair share of fighting games, though – whether you like 3D arena brawlers, party-friendly multiplayer titles, or pixel-perfect technical 2D fighters, you’re well served by the selection that’s available here, especially when including backwards-compatible PSP & PS1 games."
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "In spite of Switch now dominating this niche and mobile/tablet games inching ever closer to console quality, Sony's Vita has a number of titles which were not only impressive relative to the time they released but still remain gorgeous to look at even to this day. So I'll be looking at what was impressive about them (and what could have been improved) alongside a conclusion on how well the Vita did as a high-end handheld during its lifespan."
I once heard someone brag how the vita is as powerful as the ps3. That really made me laugh. A lot of games couldn't even run at the native 540p OR maintain 30 fps... It was basically a portable ps2.
Vita was 28gflops, ps2 6.2gflops. I think the comparison was that it could almost run ps3 games if the resolution was reduced. In reality probably not as it had 8x less gpu power. It was good for a handheld at the time though in terms of power.
A nintendo 64 could almost run ps3 games if the resolution was reduced. To 160x90 pixels.
To most people, PS Vita was probably to PS3 what PSP was to PS2.
On the smaller screen, you could say "ehh, kinda in the same ballpark"
On the vita's smaller screen, first party titles like Killzone: Mercenary and Uncharted: Golden Abyss can really fool
you into thinking that it is a ps3 game, it was more like a portable PS3, if only more dev use its power. A portable ps2 is more like the 3ds.
only thing good about it was jrpg support and the og vita's oled screen. Other than that I felt I wasted my money on it.
If only Sony supported it with software and didn't put a ridiculous pricing tag on memory cards.
Killzone: Mercenary looks awesome on the Vita. Too bad it didn't get a big exclusive game like a new GTA to reel buyers in, plus those propriety memory card prices are ridiculous even now.
Right now I'm playing Trails, and while it's no technical showcase, being able to suspend the game at any time makes grinding much more manageable.
Some of my favorite vita games aren't impressive graphically. Persona, Danganronpa, Lone Survivor, Spelunky, Rogue Legacy(!!).
Still working thorough my backlog.
Several Vita fighting games have been discounted, including Dead or Alive 5 Plus (42% off to $23.33), PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (69% off to $12.48) and Street Fighter X Tekken (48% off to $20.99).
Some ok deals, but i love the fact that if you preorder, Galak-Z and Everbody's Gone to the Rapture are both 20% off and if you get them both together you get an extra 10% off on a total cart, plus each comes w/a free theme. The Rapture theme is dynamic and spectacularly amazing.
The summer sale is going on as well, last week i got Bastion (PS4) for under 4$, and this week i got Slender on PS4 for 4$ for my gf. The Old Blood was 9.99 last week and i got an awesome dynamic Transistor theme (PS4) for 1$.
Also, idk if it is anymore but Farcry 4 was 20$ brand new at best buy. Crazy.
Oh my Gosh! That is awesome. At least we know we will always be able to find an online match. This is what I want from more Developers that bring their games to the Vita, that will also be on the PS3. Croos-Platform for the win. I also like the first person mode. This is no straight port and happy to see that it will be worth the wait and have unique features.
Now, hopefully we will see some sports games do it.
lol i cant wait for this.. Love DOA since the beginning & i hope some other forgotten faces return for this version.. DAY 1!!!!!
Wasnt interested in the game on PS3, now that its on the vita, i am :D
I said it once I'll say it again. The Vita is the best console to play fighting games. They just feel at home on the Vita.
Vita = The New Arcade :D
Awesome. DOA was kiler on the 3ds cant wait to see how this turns out. Great series.