After having heard several people talk about the new 3ds being more powerful than the vita in terms of raw power, which is contrary to my impression of the Vita even though I've never used one, I started thinking if there were any games from this last handheld generation that were on both platforms and kept the same games. This would make comparing them easier, even if no multiplatform games were specifically made for the New 3DS.
I swear I've tried to look for any easily obtainable answer to this without any result. However, I can imagine the typical Lego games being on both and maybe some skylanders. There's probably also Tekkens, Street Fighter and maybe Dead or Alive. Minecraft comes to mind as well. I saw that Senran Kagura came out on both but they seem to be different games.
I've also tried to look for any of the usual [3ds version of a game] vs [Vita version of that same game] videos that you typically find on youtube (of the sorts VCDECIDE and Elanalistadebits make), but I could not find any. So if anyone has something like this then that would be fantastic and quench my curiosity a bit.
Please do not misinterpret this as any fanboy war whatever (both systems have finished their runs anyway).
Thinking about it there's probably a lot of indies that are available on both (?).
NB I'm not interested in the typical discussion of which one has the best specs blah blah blah. I'm purely interested in any games present on both systems and how these compare to each other, since this topic seems to not have been that much addressed.
So yeah, I'm not 100% sure of all of these, but the games I can think of so far are:
Retail games
Lego games
Severed
Street Fighter IV (?)
Tekken (?)
Virtue's Last Reward
Zero Time Dilemma
I swear I've tried to look for any easily obtainable answer to this without any result. However, I can imagine the typical Lego games being on both and maybe some skylanders. There's probably also Tekkens, Street Fighter and maybe Dead or Alive. Minecraft comes to mind as well. I saw that Senran Kagura came out on both but they seem to be different games.
I've also tried to look for any of the usual [3ds version of a game] vs [Vita version of that same game] videos that you typically find on youtube (of the sorts VCDECIDE and Elanalistadebits make), but I could not find any. So if anyone has something like this then that would be fantastic and quench my curiosity a bit.
Please do not misinterpret this as any fanboy war whatever (both systems have finished their runs anyway).
Thinking about it there's probably a lot of indies that are available on both (?).
NB I'm not interested in the typical discussion of which one has the best specs blah blah blah. I'm purely interested in any games present on both systems and how these compare to each other, since this topic seems to not have been that much addressed.
So yeah, I'm not 100% sure of all of these, but the games I can think of so far are:
Retail games
To be honest I hadn't even heard of this game before, but I found a pretty nice video on them. The difference is not that big really, only the resolution, texture quality and maybe the fps. This one would really have been interesting to see what the N3DS could have produced. There are quite a few effects that the Vita shows too like fog and basic reflection on some textures. Having said all of that I can definetely say that this is the most similar game I've seen between these two systems and I imagine while holding them both in hand it would be hard to tell them apart, mainly if we talk about the 3ds LL editions and not the bigger XL. You could probably only tell a difference by looking at the graphical effects missing on the 3DS.
I'm not too familiar with this game, but it's nice to see a 2D fighter compared. Makes you think back to Street Fighter Alpha series on PS1 vs Saturn. The vid I found shows some differences even if the video of it self suffers from video artifacting and probably from streaming no youtube as well. The Vita has some more effects like leaves that float up from the ground and interestingly the goddess finish move has more animation than the firm 3ds one. I guess this must be because of storage medium. Not sure if these games were physically released, but that would explain it.
According to @oxenh this game runs fine on the 3DS but has worse resolution (naturally) and worse fps.
Lego games
I managed to find a video on this one and the Vita runs at pretty solid 30 fps, higher resolution. Even more so at higher clock speeds. The 3DS runs at an unstable 10-20 fps. Setting n3ds clock speeds does make it more stable around 20 fps but it still drops frequently.
According to @Orangy57 the PS Vita version runs a lot better than the exclusively New 3DS version, with better more stable framerate, better draw distance, higher graphics settings.
I managed to find a vid however disregard the choppy gameplay that is caused by the creator streaming the game over wifi and focus on the fps counter. The Vita version runs at around 50 fps when running at higher clocks while the N3DS runs at round 38 fps.
I managed to find a vid however disregard the choppy gameplay that is caused by the creator streaming the game over wifi and focus on the fps counter. The Vita version runs at around 50 fps when running at higher clocks while the N3DS runs at round 38 fps.
Sure this game is 2D, but it's still interesting to see how it plays on both systems. I even found a nice video on it. It's the first to compare sound quality (or speaker to be more precise) between the two systems and not so shockingly the 3ds has a worse speaker. Would've been nice to hear a comparison using their audio outs. There's not much else to say. The resolution is of course higher on the Vita. Perfomance seems to be the same.
Revelations 1 was released on the 3DS and was not enhanced for the N3DS but still runs pretty well. The PS Vita sequel runs well too with a higher res and textures but maybe less stable frame rate.
I was not aware that this game came out on both systems. I haven't found any concrete comparisons on gameplay other than the below video. It is obvious that the resolution is quite different and I would expect the Fps as well to be better on the Vita. Would be interesting to hear what fps they run at and how higher clock speeds affect both systems
Severed
Again I only found a vid showing footage of the two games. However I seem to remember people saying the 3ds version tends to crash when running at N3DS clock speeds. Would be interesting to have a comparison showing the fps on those as well.
Here's another nice comparison vid with a lot of good commentary. The framerate seems to be around 5 fps lower on average on the 3ds compared to the vita.
Here's another nice comparison vid with a lot of good commentary. The framerate seems to be around 5 fps lower on average on the 3ds compared to the vita.
Street Fighter IV (?)
Tekken (?)
Virtue's Last Reward
Zero Time Dilemma
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