Apple.
Apple sells phones and MP3 players, not dedicated gaming machines.
I’m just pointing out that incrementally improving the performance of your devices is a valid marketing ploy, and that people will still buy your products if you do so.
It’s still a dick move, and a lot of people will hate you for it.
Hey wait man, you kinda jumped the gun. When I said hardware updates I was referring to drivers and stuff along those lines, like you know how when you get gfx cards and out of the box they are at a low resolution until you update it’s drivers, and how your gfx card can go to a higher resolution than your actual monitor. Sorry if it sounded like I was implying them to build a new Vita with a higher resolution monitor.
But, I am 99.9% sure that they will release a new Vita with the HDMI output that they took out in a newer version as a scheme to get more profits.
Sony doesn’t add features in their hardware revisions, they take them out.
Yeah lol, I remember when they made the douchebag decision to remove PS2 backwards compatibility from the PS3 and then increased the price.
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I don’t think it works that way either. I’m sure the Vita’s screen is made at the exact resolution that the video card in it is outputting so I don’t think updating drivers to make it go to a higher resolution would do anything in that circumstance.
There’d be no point in having the capablity to display a higher resolution than the screen can actually use. It’s wasted potential.
This I can see them doing. The PSP is one of the few (the only?) systems that anyone actually added features to that just weren’t available anywhere else, in a hardware revision.
And about the higher res screen, would there be much point on a screen that small?
Yes. PSP 2000 aside.
Those revisions you keep referring to are known as firmware updates. That’s software, not hardware. Which is exactly what Microsoft keeps doing to their front end on the 360. Thing is, I strongly doubt that the Vita would ever receive a firmware update to increase the display resolution. Plus, if the games are already displaying 720p, there’s no reason to upscale to 1080p just to facilitate having an HDMI cable linking it to a larger monitor, simply because it would look fine as is.