Shai-Tan
Banned
I think there's definitely a flaw in the reasoning of some reviewers and games like NFS suffer because of it - but I also think some of the other games mentioned are scaled down games that deserve lower scores for reasons almost entirely unrelated to them being on handhelds. Games like Uncharted and Assassin's Creed on the Vita have lesser design and polish because less effort or talent was put into their production.
I think it's important for reviewers to treat the difference in graphics as a tradeoff because the idea behind the handheld version is it's on a handheld. It's portable, it has instant suspend, etc. It seems like some reviewers are completely discounting the advantage of a game being on a handheld. I agree with the OP that there is a double standard because you could do the same thing saying all console versions are shit when the PC version looks drastically better. Yet they don't because of things that are unrelated to the game.
And if we want games with good polish on a handheld some of them will have to be multiplatform games. I want to play those games on the Vita. It seems to me some reviewers don't want to be playing handheld games.
I think it's important for reviewers to treat the difference in graphics as a tradeoff because the idea behind the handheld version is it's on a handheld. It's portable, it has instant suspend, etc. It seems like some reviewers are completely discounting the advantage of a game being on a handheld. I agree with the OP that there is a double standard because you could do the same thing saying all console versions are shit when the PC version looks drastically better. Yet they don't because of things that are unrelated to the game.
And if we want games with good polish on a handheld some of them will have to be multiplatform games. I want to play those games on the Vita. It seems to me some reviewers don't want to be playing handheld games.