PS Vita Trends on Twitter as OLED Screen for New Switch Is Revealed

I do love the OLED on my Vita. I just can’t justify upgrading my Switch for such a small upgrade.

Just shows "in terms of tech" how far Nintendo are behind

Sony should have supported Psvita more.

The PS Vita was my crap back in the day! LBP Vita, Tearaway and Angry Birds Trilogy were some of my favs. Wish Sony treated this handheld better so we could get a Vita 2.

I do love the OLED display of the Vita. Vanillaware games and other 2D games look gorgeous on it. I know this Switch OLED didn't improve much but it would be interesting to see how good the games will look in handheld. Shame that Sony don't see much value on the handheld market. The Vita sure is one great portable console despite its failure

@Milt perhaps one day?

I definitely don’t regret getting my Switch in 2017, but there’s no way I’m putting more stock into Nintendo’s ecosystem any time soon.

Nintendo releases maybe 1 game a year that’s really worth getting and now that the PS5 and XSX are out their standards look really low.

@Boucho11 Seeing how poorly Vita has sold during its lifetime, i really doubt it.

Not only that, but the Vita was the first handheld to let you continue where you left off if, at some point, your vita turned off due to low battery while playing a game. It's a feature that was later implemented on the Switch.

Well then, it’s still true…VITA > Switch

It's funny, because Sony's been trying to kill the Vita for years while competitors steal all the groundbreaking ideas that Sony rushed to abandon.

LMAO!... the Switch PRO!

At this rate - VITA's folders, themes, FREE local backup and voice chat will make the Switch in 2025.

I rarely use my Switch... no reason to invest another $350 in hardware to play $60 Wii ports and 2D Metroid.

I rather use that cash on GamePass (or on a $10 PS5 4K upgrade 😉)

I'm still amazed every time I fire up stuff like Gravity Rush, Persona 4 or the dancing spin-offs on my Vita. The OLED really does make some games visuals pop.

Also shout out to the fact that Vita is still mentioned so regularly long after Sony has since moved on from the console. You would be hard pressed to find a bunch more dedicated to a piece of hardware that isn't the Vita crowd. I literally just got done with a play session on it about an hour ago!

The vita still more than holds up today and its shocking the switch was able to take off whilst the vita died.

Man what a good portables, I always play indie games on psvita back then, I remember playing hotline miami 1 & 2 until the battery runs out. I want to play switch oled though, I prefer switch pro but an oled is fine too 😃

People: OLED screen! AAA gaming on the go!
Ps vita: ..me? Are they talking about me, finally? My time to...
People: SWITCH(OLED)!!
Ps vita: 😐..😑..😐

A switch pro? More like highway robbery coming in at a whopping $350.

Ahead of their time on the design and features, but lacking in marketing support. If Vita had shipped with PS4 day one systems as a bundle and hit hard on ads featuring the PS4 remote play functionality on the Vita, it would’ve breathed new life into the handheld.

Sony failed Vita unfortunately, a lack of vision and commitment, company is still run mostly by idiots.

Reading all these made me glad I'm a Vita owner. It's way ahead of its time and with all these amazing feats, you really had to wonder why Sony didn't support it fully. It's really sad to think about it but at least with all these Switch OLED talks made people realize how underrated the Vita was.

Kinda warms my heart to see some people diss nintendo - the things they get away with and the blind praise they get all because of nostalgia is crazy at times . I have a switch myself and can't be bothered to play anything more than smash bros on it , if even .

that said though id still like to own all 3 current gen consoles , i don't have brand loyalty to no corporation , i just go where the hype and games are. was hoping Xbox would gain alot of traction this gen tbh , but its still early on so time will tell.

Had to get surgery last month and was in the hospital for days afterwards. Vita really made that time go by

@Texan_Survivor And still people say Playstation has much remasters how many times can you remasters Zelda and Mario. If they would have done a real remake off Metriod then I would be quite happy though.

Just release a PSP 2 I think that will work of course BC with PS1 and PS2 games and PS3 if it's possible.

So what's stopping Sony from doing handhelds again when there is this much support for it and not to mention the backlash they got for trying to shutdown the store for the vita?

If Nintendo didn't money hat Monster Hunter in Japan, Vita might've just lived. Sucks that Sony is out of the portable space, hope they find a way to support it again or do something special with mobile hardware.

I got to experience switch around 4 months ago for the first time. I was very much underwhelmed. It felt cheap and I very much disliked the super big bezels around it and the quality of the screen was low too.

It's like the Vita in reverse. Maybe they will do PSTV next... be a good option to have a cheaper 'docked only' version.

lol

Lots of salty anti-Nintendo takes in these comments.

The Vita was alright. I still like it more than my PS4 overall, although the insane memory card prices, obnoxious back touchscreen, and single set of shoulder buttons ended up hurting it a lot. More than anything, though, it has become clear over time that Sony never expected it to succeed and sent it out to die. Which is a shame, because it had a lot of unrealized potential.

Personally, I'd have preferred a Switch Lite OLED upgrade. Even with a better screen, subnative games are going to look even softer on this new model thanks to the bigger screen. The Lite's lack of modularity and smaller size makes it much more comfortable to use as a proper portable console.

@Ralizah A Switch Lite with OLED would be great (And probably the Vita 2.0 that we never had lol). Would be even better if the Vanillaware Vita games get ported to the Switch, I might end up dropping the Vita completely.

@Yomogi I was disappointed when it came out that 13 Sentinels wasn't going to release on the Vita, since I played Dragon's Crown, Muramasa, and Odin Sphere on Vita and think their aesthetic and style of game design is a particularly good fit for handheld systems. I was hoping for a Switch port, but Vanillaware seems to only be interested in supporting Playstation hardware, so with Sony going full home console...

I'm still of the opinion that Persona 5 Royal would have been a handheld port if the Vita, or a successor system, was alive and well.

These sorts of things are the reason that, even being a very happy Switch owner, I still wish Sony would've pressed on with their line of handheld consoles.

As it stands, the Vita is still the only way to play a whole mess of games on a portable console, and it's super useful with CFW and something like SD2Vita that allows you to dramatically increase the amount of storage space it has, so I expect to keep using mine until it inevitably craps out.

I'll definitely hand it to Sony for the system's build quality. I've gone through a few Nintendo 3DS systems over the years, whereas my 2013 Vita is still going strong.

@The_New_Butler Yeah. I'd never want to have the Lite exclusively, since I do like having the option for docked play (especially for games like XC2 that run poorly in handheld mode), but despite the difference in size not sounding that huge, it really feels much more manageable for taking out of the house, or even around the house.

Lately, my Lite gets used every day, whereas I can go for a week or more at a time without looking at the big boy.

Oled screen doesn't change the fact they haven't had a killer game line up since the year the thing launched.
It's just Malibu Stacey with a new hat....

I was a bit worried about the OLED burn in, but Vita reminds me it was actually pretty good.

I've said my reasons for going for Switch OLED elsewhere, but it's Push Square that cleared my concerns!

So this thing isn’t 4K AND it still uses the same old overprice/ crappy Joy Cons? Geez Nintendo. I guess this is what happens when a gaming company see itself as a toy company first, and a consumer electronics company second.

@Ilovecoffee you're expecting a handheld console (essentially a tablet with a controller attached) to run games at 4K and still be affordable? Aside from the fact that this is Nintendo and they'll always go for marketable gimmicks over impressive technical specifications, those are some pretty unrealistic expectations

(I do have a switch so this isn't me knocking Nintendo - it's just that ever since the Wii at least, new Nintendo consoles have always just been "the current means to play Nintendo games" rather than impressive in their own right - other than the gimmicks, e.g. the Wii's motion controls)

Loved my Vita. If it had L2/R2 triggers it would have been perfect.

@Ichiban my Nephews got a Switch Lite each for Christmas and all they’ve ever played on it is Fortnite 🙄

They’ve never played a single Nintendo exclusive.

What's the point of an OLED screen when the games run sub-720p in handheld mode anyway? And the screen is bigger, but with no increase in resolution. I'll stick with my OG model, thanks.

I believe I read an article that the official position of Sony with regard to why the Vita failed is . . . they don't know why it failed.

As someone who has played it regularly for over 9 years my theory is:
-Fairly expensive.
-Insanely priced proprietary memory cards.
-Complete lack of support from Sony after 18 months.

Everything else about it is amazing, including that screen!

@SoulsBourne128
You could pause/resume the PSP by moving the power slider briefly to off. Sliding it back on resumed.

As an owner of a Vita Slim, I cannot enter into this discussion.

@crazykcarter Lack of L2 and R2 made the Vita hardware kinda suck in my opinion. I still love my OLED Vita but that was an awful idea.

A new Vita would be fantastic but would need to do what switch did in the sense it's the primary Playstation system and can be docked

I just played mine last night. Still a good pick up and play machine. Lol.

@fR_eeBritney They'd probably be better off playing it on a phone or tablet, would no doubt run alot better!
It had so much potential at the start. Zelda BOTW & Mario Odyssey gave me hope that they were finally ready to release some big scale adventure games, like they used to. But nah, from the second year onwards back to the same old garbage: Smash, Mario sports games, Animal Crossing, more Smash, Ring Fits, Amiibo dollies, etc. Just disposable crap if you ask me. (Though Luigi's Mansion 3 was pretty sweet).
Pardon the rant haha

Bought the Vita a couple weeks after it launched, still love the system and use it on occasion to this day. The OLED screen is still very nice.

I have mine with me now. Playing through God of War collection on it. By far my fav handheld ever.

@Slippship Same here with my son's Switch and wife's Switch Pro. Nowhere near the use that the PSP or the Vita have had.

Got an OLED Vita but traded it in and later got a Slim - screen is just as good on the Slim (in my opinion) on a 5" screen. Still got the HORI grip for the Vita and that works on a lot of games for L2, R2, L3 & R3.

What gets me with the Switch OLED is that thing has a 7" screen! We used to have Nexus 7 tablet and that was barely portable! Add joycons on either side and that's going to be a monster of a handheld!

This is partly helped by Nintendo being an entire decade behind on tech most of the time. I remember having a Samsung Galaxy S2 phone with AMOLED screen back then and it was amazing. PS Vita as well. Although even Vita switched to LCD in later iteration if I remember right.

The oled vita is great but damn playing 2 hours straight is death for my eyes i see blurry after for some time. Im not 100% sure its because of oled but it is not good to me.

Vita was ahead of it's time but this Switch is not.

Mochizuki from Bloomberg striked again with fake insiders rumors. The funny thing is no matter how many times he gets it wrong, the whole Internet media keep reporting whatever he says.
To be fair, switch Pro or Switch 2 is probably in 1 or 2 years from now.