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Original: Having got back into playing Virtua Tennis on the Vita, I realised how stunning the game looked and was wondering what else among my (or your) collection shows the Vita off at its best (ignoring aliasing, other effects and so on).
After some digging, I've come up with many titles' screen resolution, with native-res being 960 by 544. If you see a title missing and know the res, please comment!
Note, some games run with screen elements in various resolutions (Persona 4 Golden, for example), or they dynamically adjust resolution to keep up the speed (WipEout 2048). Some use anti-aliasing to various degrees to clear up jagged lines. Games running at lower-resolutions have more GPU power to add extra filters and effects, so just because a game is low-res doesn't mean it will look bad (except F1 2011, which looked mud-coated horrible from every angle).
UPDATED: added some recent reviews and upcoming games (
bold), plus some claimed frame rates.
FINAL UPDATE: Since major developers have stopped producing Vita games, seems rather pointless updating the list further, but if you want to know the res of a game, comment and I'll try and find it.
960 by 544 (Native Resolution)
Air Race Speed
Akiba's Trip
Akiba's Beat
Aqua Kitty DX
Atelier Rorona Plus
Atelier Totori Plus
Atelier Meruru Plus
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend
Borderlands 2
Child of Light
Citizens of Earth
CounterSpy
Demon Gaze
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
Dragon's Crown
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z
Dragon Quest Heroes II (30fps)
Dustforce
Dynasty Warriors Next
Escape Plan
Fez
FIFA 15
FIFA 14
FIFA 13
Flame Over
Forma.8 60fps
Freedom Wars
Farming Simulator Series
Girls und Panzer: Senshado Kiwamemasu (No AA)
God Eater 2 (30 fps)
God Eater 2 Rage Burst
Grand Kingdom
Gravity Crash Ultra
Guacamelee
Hohokum
Hustle Kings
Jet Car Stunts
Jet Set Radio
Kick & Fennick
Killzone Mercenary (dynamic)
LEGO Ninjago Nindroids
Luftrausers
Madden NFL 13
Malicious Rebirth
Michael Jackson: The Experience
MLB 14 The Show
Motorstorm RC
Muramasa Rebirth
Natural Doctrine
New Little King's Story
Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus
Octodad
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
Oddworld Stranger's Wrath HD
One Piece Unlimited World Red
Persona 4 Dancing All Night
Pixel Junk Shooter
Plague Road (confirmed by Luc Bernard)
PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale
PulzAR
Ragnarok Odyssey
Ragnarok Odyssey Ace
Rayman: Legends
Rayman: Origins
Rock Boshers DX
Rocketbirds
Shinobido 2
Sine Mora (960x416 Letterboxed)
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Soul Sacrifice Delta (rumoured)
Spelunky
Super Stardust Delta
Surge Concerto
Table Top Racing
Tearaway
Touch My Katamari
Toukiden
Toukiden 2
TxK
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
Velocity Ultra
Velocity 2X
Virtua Tennis 4
Virtue's Last Reward
Wipeout 2048 (dynamic)
Ys Origin (confirmed by Dotemu)
Ys VIII
720 by 448
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
720 by 408
Asphalt Injection
Street Fighter X Tekken
God of War Collection
Final Fantasy X HD (supposedly)
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Unit 13
Dead or Alive 5 Plus
Gravity Rush
Persona 4 Golden (HUD is native res)
Ridge Racer
MLB 12: The Show
LittleBigPlanet
Assassin's Creed: Liberation
Soul Sacrifice
Ys Memories of Celceta (HUD is native res)
Project Diva f (native UI)
Project Diva f 2nd (native UI)
Project Diva X (native UI)
Miracle Girls Festival (native UI)
640 by 384
F1 2011
Hot Shots Golf
Need For Speed: Most Wanted (with 4XAA)
Mortal Kombat
640x368
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
LEGO Jurassic World (native UI)
LEGO Lord of the Rings
LEGO Marvel Superheroes (native UI)
LEGO Ninjago Shadow of Ronin (native UI)
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens (native UI)
The LEGO Movie Video Game (native UI)
Wondering about Ragnarok Odyssey: ACE
ReplyDeleteThe original did, according to user comments, can't find any definitive proof. So I'll guess this will, I'll update the list.
DeleteGreat article! Keep it updated, plz
ReplyDeleteIs SS Delta confimed somewhere as native resolution? I wondered if it was 720x408 with AA on or really now native res...
ReplyDeleteI read it was, but have yet to see any hard evidence (have stuck a "rumoured" by it for now)....
DeleteGod of War Collection is another one to add to the 720x408p pile of games... Was expecting Native... And higher than 18-30fps...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-god-of-war-collection-vita-face-off
Duly noted, thanks! passing on GoW anyway.
DeleteJust wanted to say you run a great and tidy place here and its always interesting to see where my current Vita games sit in this list. Good work
DeleteHello! I just wanted to let you know that Ys Memories of Celcata does not render it's native res. It's actually quite ugly. The interface, dialogue portraits, and menus are native res, but where it counts, the gameplay, is clearly upscaled from a lower resolution.
ReplyDeleteThanks, will update
DeleteJust started Sly 4 from my PS+ backlog. Its super pretty and Native res on the vita: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ps3-vs-ps-vita-face-off
ReplyDeleteGreat job you're doing here ;)
Maybe you could add info about use of AA! Would be great!
ReplyDeleteThe game Child of Light runs at PS Vita's native resolution (960x544). Also, the game Malicious Rebirth runs at PS Vita's native resolution (960x544) .
ReplyDeleteCounter Spy & Hohokum both native
ReplyDeleteNice! keep the list updated!
ReplyDeleteAny idea about Ratchet & Clank collection/trilogy?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not native, will dig further.
DeleteNatural Doctrine seems to be native; Fifa 15 = Fifa 14...
ReplyDeleteAtelier Rorona Plus, Totori Plus, and Meruru Plus all run at native res.
ReplyDeleteDrabon ball z battle of z mostly runs at native res
ReplyDeleteThe game Rayman Legends runs at PS Vita's native resolution (960x544).
ReplyDeleteI think Tales of Hearts R and Silent Hill Book of Memories are both running Native Resolution
ReplyDeleteTales of Hearts R look a bit pixelated really...
DeleteOddworld New and Tasty and Geometry Wars 3 Dimensions both run at PS Vita's native resolution (960x544).
ReplyDeleteThat 720x408 list...like I can totally see Uncharted and Assassin's Creed being that resolution considering how fuzzy they are, but Dead or Alive 5+? Probably need to get my eyes checked again, because that game looked pretty sharp to me.
ReplyDelete....maybe there's a little fuzz there. Nowhere near as bad as those two games I listed though.
Please keep updating the list, really interesting! Odin Sphere runs native res (I guess)
ReplyDeleteBy the way, more info on the use of anti-aliasing would be great! :-)
ReplyDeleteDisney Infinity 2.0 runs sub-native, 720x408?
ReplyDeleteWhat were they smoking to put 4X AA at the lowest resolution? It literally would have required less resources just to put at native with simple FXAA or non at all.
ReplyDeleteOn Vita, the resolution is more demanding than AA.
DeleteCriterion said it to Eurogamers when they released NFS
Yup, it's do with powerVR chipset doing 4MSAA very cheap. But I think it depends on the renderer forward/deferred etc. So that's why you don't see it in every Vita game.
DeleteAsphalt Injection runs at 720x408
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