Console PSP Vita Nintendo 3DS NVidia ShieldPrice £145.99 £119.99 £262.22Amount of CPUs

4 Core 2 Core 4 Core

RAM memory 256MB 64MB 2GBInternal memory

512MB 1GB 16GB

GPU This has not been announced 133 MHz. The amount of cores is unannounced.

1.9 GHz, 72 cores.

Power From full charge –3 – 5 hours gameplay.5 hour video9 hours listening to music

2 hours 40 minuets to charge from 0% to 100%

From full charge –When using the 3D function the battery lasts 3 – 5 hours.When playing non 3D games the battery lasts 5 – 8 hours.

3 hours 30 minuets to charge from 0% to 100%

From full charge –6 hours 30 minuets game play7 hours PC streaming

5 hours to charge from 0% to 100%

Optical Drive The PSP has its own type of optical disk. It cannot play any disk the same size as a DVD.

The games are on Cartridges None, games are streamed from the computer to the Shield

Visual Display 960x544 pixels Dual screen. The upper screen has 800 x 240 pixel and 3D display. The lower screen touch screen capabilities and 320 x 240

5 inch 1280x720, touch screen

DRM No No NoSecond hand games fee?

No No No

Cloud Saving? No No NoBackwards compatibility?

No Yes N/A

Online service Yes Yes Yes

Comparison The PSP Vita (or PlayStation Vita). It is the middle priced out of all the consoles, it is priced art £145.99. It also has the joint-most amount of cores, it also have the medium amount of RAM, but the least amount of internal memory. The GPU stats have not been formally announced by SONY. The power stats are the worst out of all 3:

3 – 5 hours gameplay 5 hour video 9 hours listening to music

It takes 2 hours 40 minutes to charge from 0% to 100%.

The PSP Vita has its own type of optical disk that is unique to the vita. The visual display screen is the middle sized out of all 3 consoles.

The Nintendo 3DS is the cheapest out of all 3 of the consoles, costing just £119.99. It has 2 cores. This makes it the worst console out of the 3. The RAM is also 64MB, meaning the 3DS cannot play high quality games and it has the worst RAM out of all 3 consoles. The internal memory is 1GB; it is the middle best for internal memory. Each GPU core produces 133 MHz, making each core 10 times worse than the NVidia Shields. The battery power is best out of all 3 consoles:

When using the 3D function the battery lasts 3 – 5 hours.

When playing non 3D games the battery lasts 5 – 8 hours.

It takes 3 hours 30 minutes to charge from 0% to 100%.

The 3DS uses old fashioned cartages as appose to modern optical disks. The visual display screen – or screens – are all the smallest out of the 3 consoles. But the screens have 3D display (without glasses) and touch screen capabilities.

Out of the 3 consoles the 3DS is the worst choice. This is because it is lacking behind its 3 main competitors in almost all catagories.

The most expensive out of the 3 consoles is the NVidia Shield. It costs £262.22. It matches the PSP Vita, with having the joint-most amount of cores, 4 cores, and like the other 3 console, the power of the cores is still company-only information. The RAM drive on the Shield is the best out of the 3 consoles, at 2GB. The internal memory is also the best out of all 3 consoles too, 16GB. The GPU is the best too; each core has a power of 1.9GHz and there are 72 of them. The Shield as the middle best power supply:

6 hours 30 minuets game play 7 hours PC streaming

It takes the longest to power the Shield from 0% power - 5 hours to charge fully.

Unlike all the other Consoles the Shield doesn’t have any form of disk or Cartridge; all the games on it are steamed there through a computer. It also have the biggest screen out of all 3 consoles – 1280x720.

The Shield is only just the best console. Although it has superior technology is almost all fields, it’s too futuristic choice of disk drive sets it down a lot because you have to own a computer (which not all people do) to put games on the Shield. Also the time it takes to charge is excessive and sets it down to in-my-view only just beat the PSP Vita.

Source – http://www.amazon.co.uk/ / http://uk.ign.com/wikis/ps-vita/PS_Vita_Tech_Specs / http://uk.ign.com/wikis/nintendo-3ds/Tech_Specs / http://kotaku.com/5644430/report-nintendo-3ds-hardware-specs-revealed / http://shield.nvidia.com/specs-and-features/ / http://www.anandtech.com/show/7060/hands-on-with-the-final-nvidia-shield-hardware / http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/nvidia-shield-tegra-4-android-geforce-review,review-32747-12.html