Worth buying a vita for? I almost got one a few months ago but a quick look at 2014 titles changed my mind.
Nah. But there's like 6 games worth playing on the system and you can use it on a portable PS4 if you get one eventually, so if that's worth the money then it's worth the money.
I like the idea of remote play but it was kinda crap on the PS3. Have you used it much on the PS4? Can it do 60fps if a game is capable of it?
I've also been thinking of getting a shield since I got a $100 coupon when buying my videocards. It's capable of being hooked up to a TV which is pretty cool since my PC is on a different floor from my TV. Supposedly Nvidia has improved the streaming drastically since launch and 60fps is now possible if the WiFI is fast enough.
What are those 6 games for Vita?
Remote play is very playable on PS4. Compared to the Wii U tablet it's lacking because 30fps and smaller screen. Wii U tablet comes across way nicer.
But here's the deal with remote play on PS4 with vita:
1) Vita has shitty controls. I hate the analog on that thing. Especially if you're coming from playing a PS4 with the nice DS4 it'll just make the games feel worse. Using the back touch screen for L2/R2 is bad for most games. SOME devs who actually put effort in to negate this negative by having good control screens. Like in AC4 to turn on your eagle vision you tap the bottom left corner of the front touch screen. This works perfect and is fine. Killzone is so uncomfortable to play and try to find and hold a rear touchpad section just to run.
2) Vita streaming looks ugly compared to PS4. This is simply because the resolution is lower and you can see the streaming compression artifacts and compared to really nice looking 1080p images on your TV with PS4 it looks pretty ugly. I think the Wii U tablet gets by better here because the games don't look all that amazing on your TV (Mario 3d is the exception) and so you don't notice and don't care much about the graphical hit from playing on the tablet. Plus the tablet is a bigger screen, maybe higher resolution?, and they seem to handle the compression artifacts a lot better.
All that being said, PS4 remote play will be AWESOME for certain types of games. Like for rpgs it'll be killer to be able to chill in bed and grind or hell, if it's turn-based, even grind at work or a starbucks over wi-fi. For games with shitty graphics (aka, a lot of Japan's output for PS4 in the next few years most likely!) it'll be nice to have portable and there won't be much of a visual hit. For strategy games or puzzle games it'll be perfect. Just for quick reflex games like action games, racing games, or FPS games the controls will keep it down and for games that are spectacles (aka, look really nice on your TV) it won't be the place where you'll want to be playing them.
tldr: remote play on PS4/Vita is decent, I won't use it much right now, but it'll probably be used a lot in the next 5-6 years, especially for Japanese games.
