Perhaps the most significant change between the Vita generations is the screen type. The first Vita has an OLED screen, the Vita Slim an LCD screen. This has helped lower the cost of making the handheld console, letting Sony be a bit more aggressive with its pricing.
However, it’s not really an upgrade. The resolution – predictably – hasn’t changed from the original 950 x 540 pixels. And by current phone standards that’s pretty low. 5-inch phones of last year tended to use 1080p screens with four times the number of pixels as the Vita. So while it’s an upgrade, it doesn’t remotely bring the handheld up to date, technologically.
The Vita’s LCD screen also has some image quality limitations. Although pretty good, contrast and black level do not match those of the first Vita. OLED screens are capable of near-perfect contrast and black level, and the difference becomes pretty clear in a dark room. Blacks will look a little bit grey – worth considering if you like playing your Vita in bed.
Motion handling is a bit worse on the new screen and colours are less vivid. There’s greater loss of brightness with angled viewing with the LCD screen, but maximum brightness is greater on the new model.
We prefer the old screen.
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