I actually would never do that. Not anymore. I can determine those things for myself now. no one knows your tastes more than you.

I'm talking about making sure something has quality, for instance, a game like ninja bread man might fit your tastes perfectly but you look a review here on Nlife to see if the execution is as good as it looks, you see it's not something that has any quality to it so you decide not to buy and avoid waisting money on it.

How is Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on the Vita (or psp for that matter)? I hear it's more difficult than Tri, but the right-stick on the Vita will aid with camera controls.

My current PSP1000 really pains me if I play for even fifteen minutes. The analog is far too small and bumpy, while the D-Pad is so large it's slippy. It's a miracle I even managed to 120/100/117% the Spyro trilogy and beat the Crash trilogy on it, but my actually-related-to-the-topic question is, would it be worth it to jump right into a Vita? I've already tried one and I find it much more comfortable, and it's sort of redundant to get, say, the Go since that exists now. But if it's not a massive thing, I'd rather go for a cheaper version. I do plan to play a couple of Vita games.

If you like games, the Vita is essential.

That is really all I have to say on the matter.

It's been a long time since I've played it on the PSP, but yeah, it's really tough - in a good way though. Vita now has a new functionality that allows you to remap the controls (and touchscreen) to your liking. This means that you can assign the right joystick the L and R buttons functionality - it's a brilliantly simple thing to do, but good night does it work wonders with PSP games, when you have decent camera controls. I've been dumping a lot of time in with Persona 3 Portable - insanely awesome game - and having dual analogue controls while in the dungeons is much more comfortable than the L/R alternative.

It's been a few months now, but I recently spent $699 for an iPad 4, with its awesome power and Retina display. I love the things, but I'm still playing my Vita everyday. I'm fully planning on playing both the PSP GTA titles (and other PSP games that didn't work well without dual analogue controls) and I still haven't gotten to half of the Vita titles already yet. It's a fantastic system with a load of great games; it's a shame that it hasn't fully taken off the ground yet. It is selling better though; it sold just over 50k units last week, which is equal to what the Wii U did, so maybe it will continue this trend going forward.

People seem to forget that the Vita is doing better than the PSP did in it's early years. Just give the Vita time, and it will be just as popular as the PS3 and PSP are now if not more so.

There are loads of great games on the Vita both exclusive and non-exclusive. Anyone who says that the Vita has no games need to get their facts straight. And speaking of games, I hope Soul Sacrifice gets released over here in NA...because it looks amazing.

This surprises me since I remember a lot of hype from everywhere about PSP being the real hot new item to get for a year or so and then most people seemingly forgot about it. In my experience at least.

My experience as well. I think the problem was that it was the same as the DS' - it had a not-so-great at launch (though Lumines, Ape Escape, Darkstalkers, and Wipeout Pure were all really good titles), and it took a little over a year for the amazing titles like Daxter and Syphon Filter Dark Mirror to come out.

In fact, I'm looking at the PSP's early line-up versus the Vita's...the Vita's doing well in the games department. We got a lot of kick-A stuff. The PSP had, in North America, only about 15 games I'd personally consider good in its first year or so. The Vita has good games in over half of its line-up from my perspective, with a handful of amazing games as well. I think the Vita will have a promising future if it can keep this up.

The PSP was a nightmare at launch. I bought it day one and I went through three until in three days, because of pixels burning out. The games we're good at best, with nothing that made the high cost to purchase the console worth it. Heck, the best game within the first year was Untold Legends, but on the original PSP 1000 model, the screen blurring was so bad that it gave you headaches trying to play it. I hated the thing and sold my original model off in a little over a year's time.

I jumped back into the game well after the PSP 2000 was on the market and the price of memory cards had fallen substantially. The system had quite a few better games and the console was much better than the launch version. But, it wasn't until the PSP was thought to be practically dead when God of War breathed life into the ailing portable and it just exploded thereafter. This is also why Vita is such a good console, because these games are cheap to download nowadays and they play brilliantly on the Vita. People that claim that Vita has no games - I literally laugh and keep on walking away.

In terms of games? Heck yes. In terms of sales numbers? Heck no. The PSP by it's third quarter had bigger sales numbers than the Vita does currently.

Now, according to vgChartz, the Vita is at about 4 million shipped (an overestimate, of course, but even at the most positive thinking level the system isn't doing nearly as well as the PSP) The fact that this image still applies kind of shows how bad things are for Sony right now.

@moomoo The last numbers that I saw put the Vita at 4.4 million worldwide, so their numbers aren't overestimated.

Source? Are we talking shipped or sold?

Well here's some good news for the system. Famitsu held a poll on which game systems their plan to purchase this year, and here are the results:

PS Vita - 64.0%
3DS - 48.2%
Wii U - 33.8% PS3 - 25.2%
PC - 14.4%
Xbox 360 - 10.6%
Smartphone - 10.0%
PSP - 9.6%
Wii - 9.0% iPad - 7.0%
DSi/DSiLL - 5.2% iPhone - 5.0%
iPod Touch - 4.0%
Other - 2.4%
Source: http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=194575

Now, this is a Famitsu poll, so many of their readers likely already own a 3DS, and it doesnt' represent the entire gaming population of Japan, but this is still fantastic news for the system. I hope that turns into actual sales figures.

Yes, it is very good news for the Vita, considering the console hasn't even got a game for the Japanese audience yet.

Watch what happens once it does.

Well, there are a few games. Ys IV reinvisioning and Soul Sacrifice come to mind. But yeah, nothing on the level of Moster Hunter. Still, if over 1/2 of people in a survey plan to purchase it, that's a definite plus.

Also, I find it hilarious how the story is getting downvoted so badly on gonintendo. Nearly half the people plan on purchasing a 3DS (after the thing has outsold the Vita nearly 10 to 1 in the territory) and about a 3rd plan on getting a Wii U. Fanboys will be fanboys

Does TearAway have a Release day yet?

^No, just 2013.

Hey guys. I was wondering about something. I just bought my friends Vita for $150 with 4 games: Uncharted, Resistance, Metal Gear, and Unit 13, paying $60 today and paying the rest off as I can. My thing is that at a certain point he went to digital and he's got 3 full games on the memory card: Little Big Planet, Playstation All-Stars, and Call of Duty. I'm interested in all 3 to whatever extent, but I would like to link my PSN account I use for PS3 to the Vita and really play on the Vita as my own console rather than another persons. So my questions is should I format it or not?

No. The moment you format it and stick your own PSN account in there is the moment you'll lose access to all three games.