A Playstation Vita Review (In 2024)

If the Playstation Vita was ahead of its time back in 2012, what is it in 2024? Let's talk about it!

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[nahurup]

It's incredible how it holds up its charge. Left mine suspended with a game open multiple days and the battery percentage was the exact same as I left it.

[DARKSHREK]

Sony (and a few other companies in Japan 🇯🇵) had A LOT of money from the great economic boom in the 90s. This caused a lot of strange phenomena in the business world. Many Japanese companies were so wealthy and so technologically advanced, they would regularly over-engineer their products, essentially making those said products instantly become "ahead of their time". This is why the Toyota Supra can compete with hypercars released last month. And it's why the Vita is still so relevant today. Sony really over-engineered 4 consoles: the PS2, the PSP, the PS3, and the PS Vita. The PS2 has slowly succumbed to time, mostly because of aesthetic choices. But the PSP, PS3, and PS Vita are so well designed that, if you didn't know, it would be easy to think those consoles came out less than a decade ago. Meanwhile the PSP and PS3 have reached two decades and the Vita is over one decade. It's mind-boggling.

[calculateddeclination]

I have a modded, sapphire blue ps vita 1000 with a 1tb micro sd card. I have TONS of games on it and it's great. Literal years of entertainment. Or at least until the battery goes to crap.

[pinkmarkercat]

I ordered a vita 2000 on ebay a few weeks ago and it should be coming in the next few days and ive been binge watching the reviews because i cant wait lol

[rook]

I still can not believe that the 1000 series has both OLED screens and hall effect sticks, it was 2011 for goodness' sake

[wd]

Just picked one up, playing Most Wanted, Uncharted, Killzone & Dead Nation. I love it!

[andrewstencel]

I own my Vita since 2012 and got it jailbroken around 2020. What a fantastic piece of hardware. I played with it a lot back when I purchased, and around 8 years after, when having access to all the cool stuff, I've been using it pretty much every day since then. Not only it has a huge library of the more official vita, psp and ps1 games, but through homebrew, I played all of the ps2-era gta games, which I'd never do if it wasn't on a portable.

[tovopro]

About 5 months late to the party. I'm just like you, I've been on the fence with the Vita for the past 10 years, and now I'm full of non-buyer's remorse. I FOMOed into this cult resurgence 2024 hype for the Vita and managed to snag a 1000 unit from a Japanese online store, since I heard they are "region free". Real excited to get it in, and while I'm waiting, I've been on the hunt all over the internet across Ebay, Amazon, and rando mom/pop shops that offer the hard to find games I enjoy.

- Muramasa Rebirth
- Odin Sphere
- Dragon's Crown
- BlazBlue (Continuum and Chrono - Extend)
- Dariusburst CS
- Gravity Rush
- Fast Striker
- Super Hydorah
- Super Robot Wars X
- Killzone Mercenary

...to name a few.

[Gold_Yoshi]

You can almost tell each time he got distracted playing the vita while writing the script because each time he got distracted he wrote it into the script and I love that

[nicotica]

i always wanted one... a friend had one and i was so incredibly enthusiastic about it. i think i'll buy one and see if i still like it today. the only thing missing are game recommendations

[MagitekBahamuto]

6:32 aged? what? that aesthetic looks awesome af.

Oh, this is an apple guy.

[SolidPython]

Claiming that the Switch runs games only "a little bit better than Vita" is a pretty wild take.

[treajones]

Followed u for ur sao reactions, glad youre still going strong man

[-vr]

Vita Means Life was a
and meme magic made it real.
love my vita to this day

[Myjacob]

The shop still works you just have to fund your account outside of the vita and then you can come back on it and buy games on it

[GurlDreamer]

I have 2 PlayStation Vita 2000 both modded. They were so ahead of their time. I also have 2 PlayStation Portables. Mind boggling how developers keep these things going. I love them!

[Rook]

I had a monster movie marathon, watching Godzilla on my vita, 3 movies and played some Sly Cooper until I went to sleep. The battery is really good considering its age.

[rj]

To buy stuff in the Vita store, you have to add funds to your wallet using your ps4 or ps5. Afterwards, the funds will show in your Vita store

[Thoma]

Great video mate. I'm thinking of picking one up for sure.

[OtakuGamerZone]

You can still purchase from the store, you just need to add funds via the PS app or your PS5, for supposedly doing research, it’s a neglected point in your review.

Sony hasn’t made any overtures to close the store recently (outside the original attempt that was met with vocal resistance), I just purchased several games recently via the method I mentioned above.

There’s no doubt that it will in the future probably close, but as of this posting it’s still up and running as usual. You just have to add funds in a backwards way via your own PlayStation 4/5 or your PS account via website or app.