While the initial announcement made the rounds a few days ago, Tecmo Koei has given more details on Dead or Alive 5 Plus for PlayStation Vita. Scheduled to launch in March 2013, this version will naturally offer touch-based moves, in addition to new training modes and "a new display of advanced frame data that reveals twice the amount of information for each move compared to previous versions."
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.
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, look. MORE Vita games are being released, that's weird.
*looks at collection of three 3DS games*
I love my Vita <3
Side note for anyone reading this: I just finished Journey and I'm speechless, that was beautiful.
So these are international release dates? If so, sweet :)
It would be released at March 20th in Japan.
I don't know the international release date, though.
http://www.gamecity.ne.jp/d...
Wait a minute is this a newely announced game for the Vita?
But i thought developers were abandoning it.
LOL
Im not a fan of the Dead or Alive games but its nice to see a new game for the Vita.
Awesome, I would really love Persona 4 Arena for the PSVITA though.