Sony's PlayStation Portable redefined the state of the art for mobile gaming technology back in 2004 with its luxurious 480x272 colour screen and custom architecture that powered graphically immense titles like God of War, Ridge Racer, Gran Turismo, LittleBigPlanet and Metal Gear Solid among many others. While many argued that portable versions of home console games were not the way forward, with PlayStation Vita we find that Sony continues to beg to differ.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
While gamers usually take notice of the mainline missions, these 5 side quests deserve more widespread attention for how entertaining they are.
Final Fantasy 7 has come back under the spotlight thanks to the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, but is it worth replaying the original?
Very much so. Graphically it's dated but the story and the gameplay haven't aged a day. It's still one of my all time favourite RPGs and for me is better than Remake in some ways.
"The whole game appears to be rendering with a native framebuffer somewhere in the region of 720x408 (which is 75 per cent of the Vita's maximum 960x544 resolution), meaning the game's image quality isn't quite as exemplary as we'd hoped it would be, and that scaling artifacts are evident."
You must be kidding me, the game won't even run at vita's native resolution. The device seems to be outdated at launch or the developer did poor optimization, anyway I believe the games will look better and better with time, just look at the PS3.
The Vita is the new king of the hill of handhelds. That screen alone makes it the best one out. Then add a touchpad on the back, dual analog sticks, a gyroscope, an accelerometer, and built-in SixAxis motion controls, and a myriad of other features, and you've got yourself the best handheld around.
Who cares about the resolution? If it looks good in front of my eyes that's all that counts, I don't need a website to tell me whether it looks good. The browser? why all the moaning, its a games machine, virtually everyone has a phone that does decent browsing so your never going to go without.
It plays good games, two analogue sticks, beautiful screen...game on.
Shame this isnt getting many attention as its a great piece of an article.
Even if some titles are rendered at a slightly lower resolution than the screens the games still look amazing for portable titles. If you want to complain about low resolution visuals the 3DS is the one to look at not the Vita because it's resolution is a lot higher than the 3DS.
This article is very good and proves that the Vita is extremely well designed. According to them Sony did everything possible to improve battery life it was impressive to read that they got rid of a lot of notification lights in order to improve it. The guy who designed the Vita did a great job.
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