Nintendo 3DS vs. PlayStation Vita

Corpse v. corpse.
Edited by Dominic Mattero and Scott Wozniak
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[@STICKOMEDIA]

I am betting on the fresher corpse on winning this one

[@spplmj2380]

Imagine the timeline where Sony didnt sabotage the Vita with the overpriced memory cards

[@extrasalt9053]

I had the terrible misfortune of being both a PS Vita and Wii U owner.

[@blubba818]

I went to Japan at the end of November to mid-December and I took my 3DS with me to get StreetPass data. As it turns out, you can still run across a ton of people toting around the 3DS in Tokyo. Kinda wild.

[@mashaya5327]

I'm a user of both consoles, and I prefer the 3ds because it doesn't have as many problems as the psvita with its gpu crashes

[@awoosionist5825]

As someone who bought and modded both a 3DSxl and PSVita within the last few months, I think that the 3DS has more consistently good games made for the 3DS itself as well as a greater library of good games on the DS, GBA, and SNES, but the short-lived Vita has higher highs with more addictive, well-executed games and, since you can play PSP and PS1 games on it, you have every single golden age Square JRPG title available, every Final Fantasy up to 10, loads of other JRPGs, and a lot of more amazing action games. There were a lot of series that started on the PSP and ended on the 3DS, with the most notable example being 7th Dragon. If you can get both, then I highly recommend it! I spend like 8 hours a day at work playing my portables, and I don't think I'd ever going to be bored again.

[@HellBreaker]

I dont know if you should be bringing up mgs3d when vita can play 1-3

[@nephilexfrost7202]

Fun fact, In the Vita itself, in the file names, it refers to itself as PSP2

[@BackdoorBarnyard]

The New 3DS didn't come with a charger. It was way too expensive to buy a new new 3DS every time the battery died.

[@absupinhere]

It took him 42 minutes to mention that one of these had a 3d screen 😂

[@Megaman.ExE7]

I don't know what it is but something about my mind can't accept that these consoles are basically

[@smudgetwo]

regardless of their official runs, the vita and 3DS are portable powerhouses if you mod them. there's so much Stuff compatible with both it's nuts

[@cyrus8886]

Sony really pulled a dad going to get milk on the vita

[@Hamlock_]

You bring up a very good point about how a lot of first-party PSP/Vita games were just the console games but portable, but also more than that, the PSP/Vita didn't have blockbuster franchises that they could call their own. Like Pokemon started on GB and consistently released mainline titles only on Nintendo handhelds, but PSP/Vita didn't have anything like that. Monster Hunter is the closest it came to that, but ironically, Capcom moved that series from PSP to 3DS.

[@matthewstrunk5581]

One thing to note about the Vita's Kinda backwards is when modded the PS Vita has a full PSP mode which also can mod games to allow you to use the right analog stick for cameras. Modding also allows you to fix the biggest issue with the Vita;Memory Sticks as it allows to turn the game card slot into your storage space and use a cheap Micro SD to Game Card converter to be able to store everything.

[@bcj842]

I never had a Vita but I love both of these systems so much. I feel like one of the Vita's most effectual coffin nails was Capcom's decision to continue the Monster Hunter series on 3DS instead. I think that cost Vita quite a few sales. MH was one of the killer apps on PSP.

[@Onotosho]

3ds was my go to for a time period when i was kinda falling out of gaming, it kept the passion alive during a dark time in my life

[@fabiofabiobio]

I remember in the leadup to Vita, as iPhones were really taking off as the big new thing, gaming journalists were always wildly speculating about a PSP Phone. I really think Sony was lead astray by that and it ultimately killed the Vita. Vita didn't need 3G, didn't need front and rear touchscreens & cameras, or gyroscopic and accelerometer controls, or a suite of dorky social apps and games crammed with swipe gestures and motion gimmicks. I think if they'd cut all those "features" and launched $50 cheaper with a focus on quality portable games, Vita would've been a huge success and even had a strong chance to surpass the 3DS at a time when it was really struggling.

[@maxawesomo]

Freedom Wars is one of the first Vita games I always think of. It's just a shame only like 7 people bought it because Sony didn't bother to market it. An absolute underrated gem, especially if you have someone to run multi-player missions with.

[@golemofwill4728]

These two are some of my favorite devices in gaming. The big thing I will say is that Nintendo kept improving the library and features of the 3DS while Sony dropped the vita hard and fast. Both are great for having so many retro games on them. It's a shame how many people will never be able to experience this era and how many fantastic games it had without selling an arm or leg,