Comment on PlayStation Portal review: impressive hardware but is Remote Play itself good enough?
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 11 months agoHardware-wise, vita is nothing special. It’s just an arm cortex device, which means Sony will have much easier time making the runtime works on newer arm processor. They don’t even need to port the whole os, just the runtime would be enough. If a bunch of volunteer can make vita runtime from scratch on their own free time (and managed to get various Android games running on vita runtime too), there is no reason Sony which have access to the source code can’t do it with less time.
No need for extra touchpad in the pad either. Vita TV didn’t have it and work fine without it too.
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
it’s not a “nothing special” device, it literally has a psp encoded into the soc package…
also
this is just flat out incorrect, a huge amount of games just don’t work on the vita tv because of the lack of touch interactions
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 11 months ago
It’s nothing special anymore today because current arm processors are fast enough to fully emulate PSP.
Only a few dozen out of hundreds of vita titles, and mostly due to the lack of touchscreen, not the lack of the rear touchpad. Most vita titles that use the rear touchpad only use it as a workaround for the lack of R2/L2 buttons, which the portal has.