Llamasoft does TxK for Sony Vita

[Misfit]

Some people seem to think LCD is a good move and don't like the OLED for some reason.

I think they are quite mad. The Vita screen is a thing of beauty.

[Jimaroid]

The OLED screen suffers from burn-in apparently.

The Vita's a couple of years old now so I'd guess that a new LCD screen could look as good as an older OLED one.

[Misfit]

You can get the 3G vita (3G not that much use apart from a cheap way to get Wipeout) with Killzone and 8GB for £155 with the code VCUKSEPT13 from Game online.

Code also works with the megapack mentioned above for the same price, so a few quid more to get it from the UK.

[gilesgoat]

The OLED screen suffers from burn-in apparently.

The Vita's a couple of years old now so I'd guess that a new LCD screen could look as good as an older OLED one.

I have my doubts about this, I'll believe it when I'll see it.

That OLED screen is just .. "almost what makes it all" .. it's too gorgeous ..

[Misfit]

That OLED screen is just .. "almost what makes it all" .. it's too gorgeous ..

To avoid screen burn then you really should think about making TxK's graphics a little less static. They should, at least, glow, morph, shatter, warp, explode and pulsate. Preferably all at once.

[fog]

That OLED screen is just .. "almost what makes it all" .. it's too gorgeous ..

To avoid screen burn then you really should think about making TxK's graphics a little less static. They should, at least, glow, morph, shatter, warp, explode and pulsate. Preferably all at once.

Having seen the latest video I'm more worried about my eyeballs than the OLED.

TxK and OLED seems like a match made in heaven.

The OLED screen suffers from burn-in apparently.

The Vita's a couple of years old now so I'd guess that a new LCD screen could look as good as an older OLED one.

Had mine since launch, used it daily and no issues with burn-in. I don't know if the way traditional LCD works would let it ever match OLED.

[gilesgoat]

I don't think a retro illuminated thing will EVER match the black black of a LED technology, it's simply impossible.

[Whiteball]

I've seen permanent images left on LCDs too, and not very old ones at that so it is possible.

[Harlequin]

Newly manufactured OLED displays are apparently wonderful but it would seem that at least older ones degrade relatively quickly with extended use.

Disadvantages
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Lifespan
The biggest technical problem for OLEDs was the limited lifetime of the organic materials. One 2008 technical report on an OLED TV panel found that "After 1,000 hours the blue luminance degraded by 12%, the red by 7% and the green by 8%." In particular, blue OLEDs historically have had a lifetime of around 14,000 hours to half original brightness (five years at 8 hours a day) when used for flat-panel displays. This is lower than the typical lifetime of LCD, LED or PDP technology—each currently rated for about 25,000–40,000 hours to half brightness, depending on manufacturer and model.…
Color balance issues
Additionally, as the OLED material used to produce blue light degrades significantly more rapidly than the materials that produce other colors, blue light output will decrease relative to the other colors of light. This variation in the differential color output will change the color balance of the display and is much more noticeable than a decrease in overall luminance.…
Efficiency of blue OLEDs
… {B}lue diodes (430 nm) have only been able to achieve maximum external quantum efficiencies in the range of 4% to 6%.
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Outdoor performance
… The metallic cathode in an OLED acts as a mirror, with reflectance approaching 80%, leading to poor readability in bright ambient light such as outdoors.…
Power consumption
… {I}t can use over three times as much power to display an image with a white background such as a document or website. This can lead to reduced real-world battery life in mobile devices when white backgrounds are used.

[BillyT]

When is the release date for this? I wasn't going to buy a Vita but because of TxK I will be banging some cash down. If it's anyway as good as Tempest 2000 then I can justify the purchase I haven't look forward to a game for years and boy I'm looking forward to this!

[Firefox]

I was interested in the Vita TV, but apparently it won't play Wipeout! Fail!

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/09/new- ... ita-games/

[adam]

is that a polite way of saying jp devs write more efficient code?

[Misfit]

I was interested in the Vita TV, but apparently it won't play Wipeout! Fail!

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/09/new- ... ita-games/

Presumably it will all depend on how games control as to whether they are compatible? I doubt Vita Wipeout is going to look as good as PS3 wipeout on a large TV either...

[Firefox]

Presumably it will all depend on how games control as to whether they are compatible?

Actually, yeah: I remember from a video that the reviewer was using the touchscreen a lot to select tracks, etc.

Maybe they'll do specially-tweaked Vita TV versions of incompatible games at some point?

[Misfit]

Presumably it will all depend on how games control as to whether they are compatible?

Actually, yeah: I remember from a video that the reviewer was using the touchscreen a lot to select tracks, etc.

Maybe they'll do specially-tweaked Vita TV versions of incompatible games at some point?

Let's hope so. Presumably it's easier for Sony to convince developers to update than it is say Ouya to get android developers to worry about redeveloping for no touch screen.

So Jeff/Giles can you play Txk without ever using the front or rear touch screens?

And totally opposite, have you thought about a rear touch screen control mode? In my mind I think it could work really well, obviously how that works in practice is something else.