How Nintendo's approach to Switch OLED is smarter than what Sony did with the PS Vita

[Redaktion]

Sony already tried an OLED portable console nine years ago and it didn't work. Nintendo is now betting on that same technology for its Switch console but with a smarter launch window.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/How-Nintendo-s-approach-to-Switch-OLED-is-smarter-than-what-Sony-did-with-the-PS-Vita.549305.0.html

[Q]

A pentile + PWM OLED should be a downgrade.

[kek]

A pentile + PWM OLED should be a downgrade.

I agree. I dont understand why, especially here on NotebookCheck, where hundreds of OLED screens have shown the same nasty low 240Hz PWM, reviewers and tech sites are claiming it will be an upgrade. It's not like the current Switch LCD is bad. It's actually pretty good.

[ZODD]

The PS VITA was ahead of the times and is still a excellent system, I would have to disagree with the article and the VITA screen was a definite highlight.
My OG VITA screen still looks gorgeous to this day.

[Reece Parry]

"Sony already tried an OLED portable console nine years ago and it didn't work" "moderately successful PSP".. Seems like the author doesn't like Sony very much. The PS Vita's OLED was miles ahead of the competition at the time and the fact the tech is still talked about today is testament to its quality. Disregading the Vita's flaws, that screen is still an absolute joy to look at today, especially as an emulation machine.

[Harrykonstantinos]

There really are some terrible reviewers on here...

I mean, this article is bizarre.

So you're saying that Nintendo, releasing a 5yr "upgrade" which makes it do what it was supposed to originally (remember 'motion plus') and disappointing millions to a shocking degree, whilst being completely moronic.... is still smarter than Sony's decision..... To make something too expensive, then regret it....?

The screw up for Sony was making a crap device that was less functionally than a tablet, was more expensive and required ridiculously priced slow men cards and asked full game money for download vouchers, effectively forcing out people with poor internet, completely disregarding the second hand game market without including that in pricing and requiring you to redownload games to your slow as hell 8gb for $40 card from their barely usable servers. The screen only factored for reviewers, or adults with warped priorities.

(if they had any brains they would have ported the game library exclusively to xperia phones and recovered their investment like Nintendo did with wii U).

[Hakbim Akhra]

"psp was only moderately succesful..."
whats wrong with this author? it sold 80 million units, thats as many as the switch, as many as xbox 360 and ps3, almost as much as the wii
your bias is showing when youre just ignoring plain fact

[Darth Mario]

LOL!  "moderately successful PSP"

didn't the Sony device sell a massive amount of them? They were the rage for a few years. A youngo wrote this article, apparently.

[Gaz]

Lol this article is about a whole lot of nothing. Super pointless. PS VITA flopped not because they did OLED poorly, because of the lack of R2L2 triggers, L3R3 stick buttons, and the expensive memory cards. Despite the complaints I'd say the memory stick price was less of an issue, but the lack of buttons was definitely the nail in the coffin and made sure the portable console could never make a come back. What's worse? It doesn't even support 5ghz WiFi, something absolutely crucial for smooth remote play. What Sony should have done was release PS Vita alongside the PS4 with remote play working from day 1.

[BangoBongo]

Lol this article is about a whole lot of nothing. Super pointless. PS VITA flopped not because they did OLED poorly, because of the lack of R2L2 triggers, L3R3 stick buttons, and the expensive memory cards. Despite the complaints I'd say the memory stick price was less of an issue, but the lack of buttons was definitely the nail in the coffin and made sure the portable console could never make a come back. What's worse? It doesn't even support 5ghz WiFi, something absolutely crucial for smooth remote play. What Sony should have done was release PS Vita alongside the PS4 with remote play working from day 1.

Your take is so bizarre to me. 5GHz wifi was still being developed when the vita came out and was not fully standard. The lack of buttons was shared by the original 3ds which was much more successful in sales. I have the opposite opinion about the memory card because it was not a small issue. If anything the fact that a 64 GB memory card costed over half the price of the console not only was absurd, but it had a huge negative effect on digital game sales, which was a major incentive in owning a vita because all backwards compatible games were available through the psn store. I only had a 16GB card, which was 70 dollars and I remember how many sales on games I skipped just because I didnt want to see my card full. I also hear that the larger cards were highly susceptible to failure, the entire proprietary memory card idea was just plain stupid, and it was obviously a cash grab that inadvertently hurt potential sales

The lack of buttons was slightly awkward in remote play mostly, but overall wasn't that big of a deal to me. It wasn't until the new 3ds where they even added "L2/R2" buttons and that still didn't have L3/R3 controls. As a handheld the vita had a lot going for it. Sony killed it through their poor decision making, and now we have wonderful homebrew support and micro SD card support through CFW

[JaxonH]

PSP was only moderately successful. Yes 80 mil, but in the context of PS2 at 155 mil and DS at 154 mil, it was the Xbox of its generation.

And Nintendo didn't "disappoint millions". A few extremists on fansites don't speak for the masses. The upvote to downvote ratio on YT speaks for itself.

This is a revision that adds some niceties for a marginal increase in price. The complete opposite of what Sony did. And say what you will about how smart it is or isn't, but results don't lie.

[shogen]

thats a crock of s*** anyone that has own both ps vita know the prefered vita is the oled models, the colour is richer and crisper and has a more premium feel, i also take the vita out more then the switch cause it has bluetooth and i find the oled screen has way better viewing angles

[Joseph D Hill]

This article is a joke. The vita oled works fine. And the fact that the OG psVita has a port for sim card shows how much the author doesn't know. Requesting Google doesn't show articles by this publisher

[Sakitoshi]

this oled switch is how it should have been from the beggining and the vita oled screen is fine even by today standards.
even now the new switch is bad specwise. 32gb were a joke in 2017 and now 64gb can't store much either, not to count that the tegra chipset is even more underpowered than at launch. you can get a smartphone with better specs than the switch for half the price.

[Robert Mamr]

You guys are all idiots here.  He isn't saying the vita OLED had issues or anything, he was saying that Sony's strategy to release OLED first and then downgrade it to LCD to lower price didn't work as well as Nintendo's strategy to release LCD first and then upgrade to OLED, and he is correct.

80 million is "Moderately successful" when it only sold 50% of it's contemporary competitor, the NDS.  It was successful, but not anywhere near the number 1 seller.