I mean, sure, if you just have different flavours of the same PC parts put together in slightly different configurations they are relatively redundant.
But the Vita is very much not that. It has cameras, microphones, not one but two touch surfaces, gyroscope inputs and a wildly different config of contemporaneous hardware that required adaptations in many ports.
“Identical” is a high bar. I don’t think it’s uninteresting to be able to check out what is different in, say, the Vita version of Wipeout or Metal Gear HD or LittleBigPlanet. Plus there are also many of exclusives or very different releases on Vita. Tearaway is very much not the same on PS4, Virtua Tennis 4 has unique features on Vita (and is otherwise stuck on PS4 anyway), Uncharted never even got ported up. There are unique entries of Dynasty Warriors, Killzone, Resistance and Silent Hill in there…
I get that it’s challenging hardware to emulate and a lot of people don’t give it enough credit, but it is certainly not a platform that is trivialized by identical hardware elsewhere.
I mean, sure, if you just have different flavours of the same PC parts put together in slightly different configurations they are relatively redundant.
But the Vita is very much not that. It has cameras, microphones, not one but two touch surfaces, gyroscope inputs and a wildly different config of contemporaneous hardware that required adaptations in many ports.
“Identical” is a high bar. I don’t think it’s uninteresting to be able to check out what is different in, say, the Vita version of Wipeout or Metal Gear HD or LittleBigPlanet. Plus there are also many of exclusives or very different releases on Vita. Tearaway is very much not the same on PS4, Virtua Tennis 4 has unique features on Vita (and is otherwise stuck on PS4 anyway), Uncharted never even got ported up. There are unique entries of Dynasty Warriors, Killzone, Resistance and Silent Hill in there…
I get that it’s challenging hardware to emulate and a lot of people don’t give it enough credit, but it is certainly not a platform that is trivialized by identical hardware elsewhere.