18:21 - Seriously, don't sleep on this game. Check out my latest review; Resistance: Retribution on the PSP! LINK HERE: th-cam.com/video/HdPqXq-iLsw/w-d-xo.html
I still bring my Vita with me wherever I go to this day. As "portable" consoles like the Switch and Steam Deck get larger and larger, people seem to forget how wonderful it is to fit something like the PS Vita or the 3DS in your pocket. I hope one day we return to pocket sized gaming.
Same, one thing many people seem to forget is that smaller screens help disguising lower set graphics. Worst experience I've ever had was seeing Ridge Racer 2 on my PSP as it were running right behind it on my 24" PC screen. Even with all the postprocessing PPSSPP offers it looked worse than the tiny version.
I understand your point. For me personally, it is a good development though, as I have bad vision so I'm happy about larger screens and don't really care if I can put it in my pocket or a bag
As a former staunch supporter of UMDs myself, the medium did have quite a few downfalls. One factor left unmentioned was how often the UMD drives would fail over a few years of use. My 2000 model's drive nearly died completely after about 300 hours playing Dissidia.
@@Fallen608 it sped up everything and was just a better experience overall, it’s so weird how both Sony handhelds became absolute homebrew/piracy beasts though
A modded Vita is a must have for modded console collectors. The ability to play PS1, PSP and Vita games on the go on one system is absolutely fantastic.
@@therunawaykid6523 someone is a salty Nintendo switch Aya neo corporate slave fanboy and nice of you to get triggered by responding to someone that mentions a vita. Ps vita lives rent free in your head kid hahahah
The psps memory was shared by Sony's cameras making it cheaper which is probably why it wasnt such a issue for a psp because there was many more in circulation
Yeh, the Memory Stick Pro Duos were shared by Sony's own digital cameras as well as their Walkman MP3 players - that's already three devices you could use them with.
And with that, SD adapters already existed, whereas making an adapter for a proprietary format which is used on one device is considerably harder, especially because of the size of the memory cards. Now it is possible to hack a Vita but as far as I know the adapter is on the game port and not on the memory card port.
I'm one of the people that always wanted a vita and either never had the cash for it or just lost interest when I could afford it, so I never got round to buying one. This was a great video for helping show me what I'd missed.
He actually left some good games out, this system is awesome! Mortal Kombat 9 (first one with x-rays/PS3 port), Assassin's creed 3 Liberation, Assassin's Creed Bloodlines (PSP game/basically Assassin's Creed 1.5), Gravity Rush, Unit 13, Resident Evil Revalations 2, Flame Over, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Street Fighter X Tekken - not to mention a large amount of your digital PSP games/movies/TV shows are playable on PS Vita.
I owned a PS Vita slim for 4 years before giving it away to one of my friends. Mainly played God Eater Resurrection for over 300+ hours, only the right analog stick was making slight noises but it was still working as intended. Played some FFX on it too and that was fun too! Racing games was GT PSP and Ridge Racer PSP that was 60fps and almost look like it can be played on a PS2! Yea. Oh by the way, I got a 32GB card for like $50 on black Friday along with the PS Vita slim. Over 300 bucks and no game too! Fuck those memory cards to the core.
i wanted the vita SO BAD when i was 12 years old. it was pretty much the coolest thing i could imagine. years later i got a used one and i still think its a really cool console, but i only think its worth buying if you are willing to jailbreak the hell out of it. Great video!
I loved my PS VITA, I wasn’t allowed to have a phone back then, so I used this as my main handheld, used it for games, TH-cam, Facebook etc. The only 2 physical games I ever owned for It was LBP Vita and Persona 4 Golden. Still have it to this day, I use it for Roms and Emulators.
It would have been waaaaaay better than phones back then. Just recently I'm getting into Android games because my phone runs them well and there's a lot of good ones nowadays.
Always remember the weird feature where it would tell you about other people in your neighbourhood who also owned a PS Vita. you could chat to them too. But Frobisher Says was one of my fave games, Sony's version of Wario Ware.
Never really knew about that feature since the console apparently sold so little here. I used to joke that I was one of the fifteen proud people in the NL that actually owned and played a Vita.
9:34 You can fix that. In the settings, go to henkaku settings. You'll see an option labled "spoofed version". Select that, enter 3.73 and you should be good to go.
Thanks. I was going to bring that up but you beat me to the punch. There's still a big group of people playing COD: Black ops Declassified (myself included).
Fun fact: The only reason I asked for a PS Vita for Christmas was for Minecraft. It was absolutely the best version of Minecraft on the go at the time. Granted, both the Nintendo Switch and then the Bedrock version soon overtook that position, but I love my Vita. It's now my dedicated Persona console.
I would argue that the "big disaster" was Sony misidentifying the Vita as a disaster, thus creating a self fulfilling prophesy. There could have been other cost cutting measures made over time, and it could have stayed as a relatively niche but still successful system. From actual sales and impact, it's somewhat hard to argue that the Vita was a flop. Was the GBA a flop too because it was only on the market for a few years? No, because it sold a lot of games and we remember and think of it well. Was the Vita a flop because it was only on the market for a few years? Yes, because it didn't sell as many games, and we remember and think of it well. See the issue there? I prefer to look at cultural and industry impact over just regular sales numbers, and when I do so, it's hard to view the Vita as a "disaster".
This console was my obsession betweent like 2015-2019. Got around 100 physical games for it. I loved everything about the vita. I wish sony would give handhelds another shot
nah, smartphones have pretty much killed that market. I think the closest thing we'll get to a handheld console from now on is stuff along the lines of the Switch (or like gaming phones, if you want to count those)
@@ianism3 Gaming on phones suck, games like subway surfers or Clash of Clans are fun but anything more complex like Genshin or CoD mobile is just straight up a headache and not enjoyable to play on a phone.
@@ianism3 stay salty to sony portables Nintendo switch fanboy crying over a ps5 portable that you won't be able to afford. You aren't a true gamer lmao
Vita failed because of expensive memory cards plain and simple. Why no internal storage? I would have bought one if it came with a memory card. To buy the system, uncharted and a memory card was too much money for me.
After all these years, everytime I'm reminded that vita exists I still feel guilty for spending so much money to buy one. Literally played like 4 games for a month and then I chucked it into a drawer xd
honestly for me, my vita is the most fun console i've ever owned. i got it in 2012 for christmas and used it quite extensively. i made so many friends and had a blast everytime i used it. i recently "rediscovered" it and started playing with it again. i even got a new game! it's sad that sony ditched it so early since it had so much potential.
I absolutely adore the PS vita even to this day. I was always a ds kid and didn't get a Psp until my teens. The DS has a special place in my heart and I love my 3ds too. But after I got a PSP I was hooked and wanted a vita. I still use it to this day. Its a perfect homebrew and emulation machine and also has an amazing library spanning several consoles. It honestly has the 3DS beat IMO.
The vita was awesome, my favorite console for a long time. I owned pretty much every model, the 3G, the 1000, 2000, and I even had a PSTV at one point. For me though, the Steam Deck is the PS Vita successor we never got, so its pretty much taken the place of my Vita at this point. Almost find it hard to go back to the small screen and lack of grips the vita has. Which is strange, the vita seemed massive in comparison to the PSP. Maybe someday handhelds will be the size of gaming laptops and we'll be talking about how small the steam deck and switch were 😅
The steam deck is absurdly large. It's fine for around the house, but it would be rather annoying to carry daily unless you also use it as your laptop for work.
Right now I'm trying to figure out where different devices fit in my life. Pc for gaming and pc vr, standalone vr setup too, then my switch for Nintendo games (I prefer to play on the switch instead of the pc due to the pick up and go functionality. My phone can handle ps2 gamecube etc emulation and anything less and even output to the TV at 4k easily. So that's a perfect portable retro console with an 8bitdo controller. It's a zfold 2 so the screen is glorious for retro games. No wide-screen patches needed. The switch is portable enough to go most places. But the one device that gives me the most games in the smallest sleakest, and most exclusive form is the vita. It's the go everywhere gaming beast. It's essential
As a massive fan of LBP, you honestly had to be there back when the games had a larger community. I found out a few months ago the servers died when I wanted to go on a nostalgia trip and now they feel pretty hollow. Personally I don’t care to know what the people left on the games even plan on doing now.
I loved the vita. I’m pretty sure the majority of games I played on it were from PS plus, but it was still amazing. It was how I discovered Hotline Miami. HOWEVER, I have to dock some points off for not mentioning Touch My Katamari. It’s the best Vita exclusive IMO.
The PS Vita was - and well, still is - my Project DIVA machine. None of the games I bought for it clicked as much as F and F 2nd, and yet those two games alone were enough to make me not bring my 3DS to school for a few months. Even after I got a PS3 to play those games on, the Vita still is the one and only way I can play them on the go. Project DIVA F 2nd and X even cross-save between PS3/PS4 and Vita! I have both a 1000 and a 2000. For some strange reason, the ergonomics of the 1000 - with it being _ever so slightly_ thicker than the 2000 - absolutely ruin the ergonomics for my hands, and I get severe cramps after mere minutes of play. No other handheld has made my hands and wrists hurt so badly; it's absolutely nuts. I don't have this issue at all with the 2000 though, so I'm kinda just... Stuck with it. Edit: Another detail I just remembered - when I first got the PCH-1000 (I had the PCH-2000 first), I actually had to readjust my timings in the Project DIVA games slightly due to the screen's faster response time. That faster response time actually made the notes as they flew onto the screen appear choppier, because the PCH-2000's screen had smearing that smoothed out the individual frames.
the vita is the best handheld ever made. Im not talking software or peripherals. Just the handheld itself. Its sleek, powerful, has a great OS, and had OLEDs almost a decade before they were mass marketed. Its capabilities are still respectable hardware wise and in features (camera, music player, sd card space)
Sony shot themselves in the foot over and over and over again with the Vita, and I hate it. I didn't get one until 2015, but I loved it thanks to all the support Japanese devs gave it and it being region-free. The memory card prices were and still are the absolute worst. Thank God for SD2Vita. And the PS store on Vita was never NOT a trainwreck to navigate.
Should've mention an option to overclock the modded vita. It slightly affects battery life (for me it was like half an hour shorter at most) but makes games far more enjoyable as framerate becomes much better/stable, plus loading times become shorter so I think It's a good tradeoff. Also there's a homebrew app that allows you to change games resolution/target famerate in some games. Combined with overclocking some games become much better. Some examples: in NFS Most Wanted you could change resolution to almost native and it would still run in 30 fps while looking on par with ps3 version, WipeOut 2048 is able to run in 60 fps and it looks fantastic, Killzone could to run either in native res 30 fps or 60 fps. Also some broken ports like Jak (btw you could also change target framerate in first game to 30 (by default it's just 20)), Resident Evil Revelations 2 and Borderlands 2 become slightly more playable, but don't expect too much from them.
I bought a cheap PS Vita 2000 on eBay, modded it with the latest firmware even so I can play online and I did indeed get an SD2VITA cause fuck paying for those memory cards. The SD2VITA is a bit of a pain to set up I will admit but god it is SO worth it.
I got a PS Vita mostly to support the niche Japanese games long after SONY abandoned the handheld when the PS4 was released. I got allot of good Japanese Imports as well as supported a fair few that were also released in English localization. Though the PS Vita much like the PSP games I treasure the most are the ones I imported from Japan, the Anime style of games that I loved the most from the Queens Blade games on the PSP to the To Love Ru Darkness games on the PS Vita. And there are a few hidden gems like Bullet Girls to Gal Gun Double Peace and even the Hyperdimension Neptunia series and spinoff games that had good support on the PS Vita.
Wow, this is honestly the first time I've ever heard someone claim they actually played games on their phone instead of a handheld console. That's honestly fucking wild. The general consensus really is that the extreme memory card prices, high price, bad battery, and lack of game support really were the reasons for Vita's failure, though. We know this to be true since 3DS did not have the same problems and had plenty of success. I mean, I had the ability to buy a Vita at the time. I just chose to buy a 3DS instead and I played it (and other older handhelds) a ton at the time. Anyway, great video. I highly recommend Gravity Rush if you ever can. It's definitely the best game on Vita, imo.
Smartphones were really popping off in 2011, Infinity Blade had launched, and people thought the 3DS was doomed too… until it was clear all the app store games sucked and wouldn’t get any better 😂 It seems obvious now, but back then even the Penny Arcade guys were making fun of the idea of toting a dedicated game device.
I was born in 98 and really only started playing video games in the early 2010s so I have zero connection to most of what you are talking about and that’s why I like your channel I get to quickly learn about a ton of games from consoles I never experiences beyond the most popular ones. So take any console’s library from anytime before 2010 and run through all their games especially the mundane ones and I’ll be happy Also I probably would have lost this channel if it wasn’t for your jingle
The Vita is such a sad story, it was like Sony wanted the damn thing to fail. And maybe they did and that's why we haven't seen any other portable outings from them since? If I remember correctly the PSPs memory sticks were made by brands other than Sony, that probably helped it a lot on top of there not being any proprietary dongles.
The Vita was probably my favorite handheld of all time. My previous favorite was the PSP, and the Vita plays PSP games soooo... I badly need to do repairs to mine though. Battery is basically shot, right stick is wobbly as hell and lacks sensitivity, left stick feels mushy vertically, one of the speakers is blown somehow and I need a new charger for it, it still works but it's worn through the outer shielding. It's not that it's low quality I just played the thing A TON. My only disagreement on the thing though is that it's far too tiny. But I have huge hands o that's probably got something to do with it. I got the Nerf Power Armor case for it and that makes it about perfect for me. Modding the thing is also a must, especially with the ever looming store shut down. Last I messed with it you could still play online and access the store and stuff too. My biggest complaint with modding it is actually Adrenaline, this may have been fixed but again, last I played with it, it introduced tons of input lag to PSP games. All that said, with a Steam Deck order coming in the next couple months, I kind of doubt I'll see a lot more use of my Vita. It didn't have a ton of absolute must-have exclusives, there were a lot of good games but nothing really hit classic status to me that wasn't available elsewhere, and in its final days of regular use I was basically just playing PSP games on it, and the Steam Deck is going to do that better, currently if I feel the need I tend to just emulate them on PC. Plus some quantity of them is coming to PS5 so maybe even that would be somewhat unnecessary, though, I would miss the performance and HD texture patches/mods. All in all it's an absolute tragedy that Sony abandoned the Vita so early on. If they'd gone with generic memory cards and charging/comms cables, they would've likely sold a lot more of the things. Another big problem it had is there was a ton of games promised for it early on that never showed, for example the Monster Hunter series was originally slated to continue on Vita but ended up on 3DS after a long silent period, I actually bought the Vita FOR that so that was disappointing, and I basically missed the whole 3DS catalogue of MH games, wasn't at all a fan of that thing. Monster Hunter pulled the same shit with the PS3 being its target platform after PS2 then going radio silent and popping up on Wii. A lot of stuff I got the thing for also just never came out in the west, like Phantasy Star Nova (which is SORTA playable with an import but a ways into the game the language barrier becomes insurmountable in the base building system). Basically all the stars aligned against the Vita which by all accounts should have succeeded but basically nothing that actually mattered came through for it, its creators, developers, 3rd party support and marketing all gave up on it while the fanbase never did, but the fans just weren't enough.
I remember buying the 3g vita at a discount shortly after release because our local best buy was having a going out of buisness sale. I loved the thing and really wish sony actually supported it for longer. Killzone and freedom wars were amazing at the time, but i could never get remote play to work well on it. It would work ok if i was at home with my ps4, but due to the lack of range of movement of the analog sticks, it made aiming in games without gyro support undoable. Trying remoteplay anywhere else besides my home would either simply not work, or the input lag would be so bad that you couldnt feasibly play anything. The only other dissapointment for me was the absolute abundance of jrpgs on the system, as, im not much of a fan of them outside of freedom wars and persona. If you do like jrpgs or visual novels, the vita is still one of the best systems to buy
As a huge fan of Nintendo’s handhelds, I am surprised the SONY PSP did not sell more. I’m surprised the PS VITA did not sell well (enough). Owning both a NDS and PSP, I can say that I enjoyed both for different reasons and the PSP was a beast for it’s time.
I absolutely loved, and still love, my Vita. Tons of hours spent on the Sword Art Online games, the Chaos Rings RPGs, and it even got me into Phantasy Star Online 2, which has become my favorite game series of all time. The fact I can play PSP and PS1 games on it makes it one of my favorite handhelds ever, and I still play it pretty consistently. WAY more portable then the Switch while still delivering some great games. Compromised from their other forms, but that makes it more fun i find.
Never really liked Sony but when I got my PSP, it was the greatest thing ever. Movies, music, games, comic books, etc. I took it everywhere! It was my smart phone before I had a smart phone (got one in 2010). I actually Pre-ordered the Vita and bought a 16GB memory card the day before it came out. The system didn't disappoint but my phone did most of the things the Vita did. When that memory card filled up, I quit buying games. Still have it on display in my man cave along with the original packaging!
I remember getting Call of Duty and being so disappointed by it. Hostiles was kind of fun to see how far you could get, but I would always have preferred they made a zombies mode instead. Portable Kino (not that god awful Android port) would have been a huge improvement, in my opinion at least.
I got a PSVita for my 13th Birthday. Now I am [REDACTED] years old, and I still have it. Actually, I bought a 2nd one because I broke the rear touch pad of the 1st one when trying to replace its battery.
Despite being a Nintendo fanboy I loved the psp. I was excited about the announcement of the vita until they confirmed it would use a new proprietary memory stick. That killed it immediately for me. However, I probably still would've gotten one eventually if SquareEnix had supported the system the same way they did the psp. But Sony just got way too greedy with the memory stick and the system was DOA.
I wonder if the memory stick was necessary for enough speed for digital games, because sd cards aren't as fast as built in flash storage on phones/consoles. But if Nintendo switch does just fine with SD cards, then I don't see why Sony would think they are too slow. (Unless fast enough SD cards didn't exist back when ps Vita came out)
Biggest upgrade for anyone getting a Vita today is definately a SD2Vita card, it allows you to put a SD card into the game slot. Yes, you lose the ability to put in game cards in as quick as without one, but since you need to mod your Vita to use a SD2Vita anyways, you can also rip your physical games and put all of them on the SD card.
I still play my Vita sometimes, I love it. It's also the only console I can play Shinovi Vs on. The Ninja Gaiden Sigma port was outstanding on it and it had the best version of Street Fighter X Tekken
I liked that the Vita port of Ninja Gaiden 2 allowed you to switch the gore/dismemberment back on from the Xbox 360 original. We still don't got that option in the recent Ninga Gaiden Master Collection for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and pc.
Another great video to add to the list of videos commemorating this sadly abandoned piece of hardware. I have to ask something though: 1) Talking about battery life, have you considered the fact that the console is over 10 years old at this point and the battery probably isn't at its best? Or are the numbers taken from back then? My Vita also lasts about 4 hours or a bit more depending on the game, but like yours, unless the battery has been changed, it's probably not at full capacity anymore 2) I don't know if you know, but if you search for vita guide (not adding the magic keyword because YT's filter filters this but not real spam) is the most updated way to mod your psvita, remove the update prompt and, especially, the guide for SD2Vita is extremely simple and well explained compared to the screenshot you sent in the video Also, if someone is not aware, PSVita's analog sticks are SO GOOD because apparently they're hall-effect analogs designed specifically for the console, meaning they are way less prone to drift (if not completely immune to that) compared to the usual sticks used in modern consoles (which are made by 2 companies)
The Vita sticks are legendary imo. Only flaw was no L3/R3. Switch feels awful, inaccurate, and it drifted straight out of the box PLUS the buttons and stick barely respond unless you push them significantly more than you'd want to. Vita buttons and sticks are all accurate and responsive. It's a great system, Soyny's last great console (that's not a typo).
@@Vulpas L3/R3 could be done by using the upper left/right corners of the rear touchpad, there's some gripshells for the Vita 1000 and 2000 that come with optional plates that attach to the touchpad (double-sided tape) and provide triggers to perform L3/R3, useful if doing Remote Play over the LAN to a PS3 or PS4 (such as playing Persona 5 Royal in bed and your PS4 Pro is sitting in the living room). Downside to using those plates is you lose on the full function of the rear touchpad for Vita games, but with PS4 Remote Play the touchscreen replicates the DS4's trackpad.
There's this magical thing called Google, have you considered using it? PS Vita's expected battery life while gaming was 3 to 5 hours. 4 hours is right in line with expectations, not the result of an old and degraded battery.
@@mjc0961 I don't understand the point of being rude like that. You say PSVita's expected battery life is 3 to 5 hours, but there's no information regarding brightness or wifi and bt on/off. For example, if you get 4 hours with all that stuff turned off and low brightness then it surely can be battery degradation. It's not like batteries are eternal anyways, and after 10 years there is no way they didn't degrade even a little bit.
I recently rediscovered my Vita 1000 and 3DS which were resting in a storage box for years. After modding them, I feel they are going through a second youth and, honestly, I'm now enjoying them way more than I did when they were first released. I think we are lucky that the homebrew community has put so much love and support on these devices and today it's worth it to pick one of them (or both) if you can find a good second hand deal.
There's a level editor in Banana Splitz and it's the most bizarre way to make a level ever. You take a photo of something and the game tries to analyze the contours inside the image and builds a level out of that. You also need to shake the Vita for a bit before it can actually build the level, because of course you have to do that, and you can continue shaking it two more times, because of course you can. I still have no clue what shaking it does.
Working a game store back then, I remember so many people complaining about the PSP not having a 2nd analog stick. "Here's the Vita!" (Proceed to complain about no L2/R2 buttons...) I bet some of those people now complain about the Switch's small buttons. It really felt like the public was just looking for reasons to despise the Vita. (See scathing reviews of Resistance's controls....Which were fine.) And anything that wasn't perfect had 0 forgiveness. The Vita was imperfect, but never given a chance at all.
Resistance and Black Ops on Vita were made WITH THE SAME ENGINE. I don't understand why the COD Devs didn't use their COD engine to make everything better.
It is kind of strange how much the vita flopped while the Nintendo handhelds at the same time were booming. I think Sony really shot themselves in the foot by targeting such a high price point and making such stupid decisions as proprietary memory cards. I had a Vita at launch and I loved it but buying that memory card was such a kick in the balls I'm not surprised that it turned a lot of other people off
As a Vita fan, I appreciate the detail you went into. It was the first console I was able to hack with ease and the amount of homebrew and love it got from everyone not named Sony was great. I got lucky and scored a PSTV for cheap just so I could have another way of playing it. It's too bad Sony gave up on it almost immediately. No matter what the reason may have been, they did the Vita dirty after putting in the work to make it one of the best handhelds in looks and overall comfort factor.
Man I loved my Vita right up until the memory card died. They're fucking expensive to replace and, at the time, there was no alternative but the official memory card. That memory card, in my opinion, seriously held back the system's popularity because it probably convinced people to stay away from buying games they wouldn't be able to easily store, or getting the system altogether. They should have just let it use micro SD, something easier to replace.
I never owned an PSP or PSVita, since I was a DS kid. But years later, I feel almost jealous I never touched any of these consoles. They were incredible for their time, besides the price.
I had the vita since launch and supported it the whole way through Sony dropped the ball with this console. It is and continues to be(with the homebrew dev scene) my favorite handheld of all time I have my vita in my car so if I'm ever stranded somewhere I have something on hand to play. I cannot say enough good things about the console... Also the vita tv was amazing as well
I remember well being all excited for the Vita after having so much fun with my PSP-2000. Then infos about those proprietary memory cards came in which were brutally overpriced... and that's how my journey with the Vita ended before it even began.
I just don't get why Sony engineered a whole new memory format when the Memory Stick M2 micro (the one used in the PSP Go) was literally smaller (both are apparently 15*12.5 mm, but the M2 is 1.2 mm thick and the PSV one is 1.6 mm thick). Of course, better case scenario would've been to use microSD (microSD had been a proven technology since 2005, with a 32 GB microSD card costing around $30 or so in 2012 according to an article I found, as opposed to the RRP of ~$120 for a 32 GB PSV card) I wonder if choosing to go with a more open standard as opposed to their proprietary one may have saved the Vita from its sad existence here in the West.
I had such high hopes for the Vita and I very much enjoyed my time on it. Eventually though I slowly stopped playing it cause while there are some good Vita originals, I ended up mainly just playing ports of other games. I got the original model Vita the day after its release. The next year, my friend accidentally caused us to fall into some water and my Vita was in my pocket at the time, so...that was that. The next year I got a Vita Slim (or 2000 I guess) and I had it for a few years. I did eventually sell it though since I hardly played it anymore. Sometime later I got another cause I missed my original, but I soon realized how much the good games cost and how much the memory cards were. I had plenty of games I could still download, but I wasn't going to spend a lot of money on a big memory card or the now overpriced games. So as of now, I no longer have a Vita. It did have a good run with me, but Sony should've treated it better.
@@DannyBenS94 Stop crying over a Sony piece of plastic that still exists and can remote play ps4 games on the vita and has more ps4 games to play on the handheld more than the switch and I guarantee switch doesn't have all of those games and only some. Where is call of duty, wwe 2k series besides the bad wwe 2k18, madden NFL series, a tekken fighting game, and other games that are on other platforms but aren't on the switch? Seems to me that switch has some flaws and is a underpowered 30fps crappy kiddy toy and Nintendo now is a garbage company. Ps vita can remote play almost any game that ps4 has as long as they come to ps4. Lmao
@@EnaTenkiyoGamer I don't think you understood me lol I was a big fan of the Vita and I still think it's an awesome little device that does have some features and games I wish was on the Switch. And I said there are some games I like on the Switch, but I'm not a fanboy lol if I was, I would excuse nearly everything Nintendo does on it, which I don't lol
Why did the criticism of boxes with voucher codes fade out, it hasn't gotten any less stupid. why go digital only if you're not doing it to cut down on plastic?
I think we've collectively realized that as long as it's making money, they won't stop. I imagine everything will be digital some day, but these will die out long before that.
PS Vita 2 could be a success if they ever brought it back. Push the PlayStation Now pass on it. Give it Internal memory starting at 64GB and expandable SD card storage, OLED screen, proper L1/L2 R1/R2, USB-C charger, and improved battery life. Finally add HDMI port for TV connection. Only issue I see is will this thing have original games or will it be a ps play/ digital only device? 🤔
Bought a Vita at the end of January ish this year because there was a good handful of games I wanted to play on it (via hacking, because no way I'm buying all those expensive games). Turns out there was only like... around 6 ish (Vita) games I *actually* enjoyed on the system (of the ones I tried anyway), and none of those are actually exclusive, so yeah. Kinda put it down after trying everything I wanted to, but I still like to use it at times for PSP or GBA emu stuff. Neat little system if you wanna do homebrew/emulation or play games like Gravity Rush on the go but (GR feels really cool on Vita btw)... It's otherwise kinda meh imo. At least nowadays where its better games are basically on every other system.
As someone who runs a pair of Vita 110x's (the 3G/WiFi Phat), VitaTV (Jpn import) & PSTV (Aus Retail) - An alternate to using the SD2Vita for the 110x units is a PSVSD board to replace the 3G modem - once you've downgraded to 3.60, got Henkaku working as a coldboot install. After you got the PSVSD set up you no longer need the Vita MemCard but can still use legit Vita Gamecarts along with running downloads and homebrew off the PSVSD (you can also dump your gamecarts to the PSVSD as well). Additionally, if you have the VitaTV/PSTV microconsole (just a Vita 2000 built to hook up to TV) - with CFW you can run the system off a USB thumbdrive instead of needing a SD2Vita. Downside is you might need a USB hub to hold the thumbdrive and a cable to plug your DS3/DS4 in to in order to resync the controller to the microconsole if it's been a while since last used.
I still want to get a vita sometime. Got my modded 3ds, modded wii, Google TV for n64 and Android games and patched switch. Maybe I'll pick a vita up this year.
The most overlooked game for PS Vita: Shinobido 2. After the original two Tenchu games for PS1, the rights for the franchise went to From Software, and it's been releasing mediocre Tenchu games for years. Meanwhile the original devs of the first two Tenchu games made Shinobido in 2004. A game that is the spiritual successor to the original Tenchu, and one that improves upon its every aspect. They then released a PSP spinoff and a sequel exclusively for PS Vita. Shinobido 2 is simply the best game in the ninja stealth genre. Severely underrated. This is one PS Vita exclusive that I feel sad about not being ported anywhere. Killzone and other big name titles might look great, but are really mediocre games if you judge them without discount for their portability. Shinobido 2, on the other hand, is better than anything you'd find in this genre on any other platform. A real gem.
The failure of PSVita is strictly related to the time it came out, imo. 2011 was the golden rise of smartphones and mobile gaming, a completely non-existent concept back in 2005 (as in proper mobile gaming, not the snake game in a nokia). That's why PSP was such a big deal. For example, nowadays anyone can download a free psp emulator from play store and play any game they want as an .ISO. Of course, it's not the same experience, but most people would rather go for that than buying a 400 bucks handheld console.
I was a hardcore vita boy. I bought one day one, got the expensive memory card, bought a shitload of the games, it was great. Genuinely the way I played Persona 4, Dragonquest Builders (which was exclusive at the time) and Minecraft. I even plat'd Hotline Miami 2 on the thing.
Love my Vita, got it in 2016 or so. It doesn’t get much play now because of my Switch and PS5, but I still have a special place in my heart for it. I paid like $140 for the OLED model and about 7 games. Tearaway, FFX/X2 Remaster, Killzone, Resistance, Uncharted, Persona 4, and Assassins Creed I think. Was worth ever penny and a great deal. I’ve been a Sony guy since the late 90’s, but the way they tossed the Vita aside was horrible. I’m glad there’s still a dedicated fanbase. I wish we found out what the Vita really could have been, hell there was even a Bioshock game in development, crazy. Thanks for the coverage of this underrated and almost forgotten console.
I really liked the PS Vita, the only problem with it was it had almost no exclusive games so there was no point in even owning one. Sure it had a lot of games on the platform, but almost every game on the Vita was also released on either the PC or console, so what use did I have for the vita? Even at the time it felt like the system had absolutely no support, and looking at the list of exclusives now it makes sense why it felt that way. The vita felt comfortable to play for long periods unlike the 3ds (new 3ds without the circle pad pro is brutal), but the 3ds library was massive and I almost always had something to play with my friends.
One other storage option I don't see mentioned very much, PSVSD. For those with a 3G model like myself, you can take out the 3G module and place an SD card reader instead. Double that with an extender that fits into the SIM card slot and you got authentic SD card function! It's worth checking out 😊
I only have a single PS Vita game, that being a PAL copy of Lego Batman 2. It’s the only foreign game I have that works, the only other foreign game I have is a Japanese Jet Set Radio for Dreamcast.
Tearaway, lbp vita, ratchet and clank. Not really a 100% weeb machine (and before you say that’s only 3 games, there’s only like 8 games on the vita anyway lol) but I did get introduced to persona from it as you can tell from my profile
I still find it insane that there have been dozens of Gaming phones, and yet none of the modern ways are tying to emulate the Xperia Play, Vita, or PSP Go.
Choose whether you want to collect and play game cards or play (and maybe but probably not buy) entirely digitally with an SD2Vita. The Vita OS only expects there to be one internal storage device, and that's where it's going to write the Home Menu's database. You can change the mount point of your Vita memory card (if you have one) and use it for the database instead, but that's a lot of trouble to go through and defeats the purpose anyway.
Well about the Killzone series. The last one, Killzone Shadowfall was bad. Like the story made no sense, they pulled in things that made no sense, and it basically became CoD Infinite Warfare with cringe themes
I traded my 2 psps and an nds for a vita last year, because I always wanted one and after I jailbroke it I could play psp games on it anyway. I am a massive Warriors games fan so I use it to play Dynasty Warriors 8,Samurai Warriors 4, One Piece Warriors 3, Berserk Warriors, Warriors Orochi 3 etc - on the go.
After Killzone there wasn’t another good fps released. I probably put more hours of Killzone in that anyone else. Kinda bummed the Vita turned into a mainly JRPG handheld after all AAA developers abandoned it.
It's funny how even today, there's all these Chinese handhelds made in 2021-22 that advertise that they can play PSP games, but many are limited to 2D scrollers and puzzle games. Many struggle with God of War and others. Yet, here we have the PS Vita from 2012 playing every PSP game it can at full speed and no hacks or frame skipping needed.
i think another reason the psvita invizimal game isnt too fondly remembered is because of the weird bass ackward decision of having it tie into the ps3 title that released along side it to unlock a decent chunk of the game... when the other prior invizimal games never did anything similar to it in the slightest
that cancelled Diablo clone would be an instant install for my Vita... just why pray tell it was cancelled? and i do hope someday people could breach into servers to find any cancelled game data to then have it repackaged into a VPK
18:21 - Seriously, don't sleep on this game.
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of course i cant sleep on the game, that will break it!!!!
That was one one of the best Simpsons references I’ve ever seen 🤣🤣
I still bring my Vita with me wherever I go to this day. As "portable" consoles like the Switch and Steam Deck get larger and larger, people seem to forget how wonderful it is to fit something like the PS Vita or the 3DS in your pocket. I hope one day we return to pocket sized gaming.
Totally agreed.
Same, one thing many people seem to forget is that smaller screens help disguising lower set graphics. Worst experience I've ever had was seeing Ridge Racer 2 on my PSP as it were running right behind it on my 24" PC screen. Even with all the postprocessing PPSSPP offers it looked worse than the tiny version.
I understand your point. For me personally, it is a good development though, as I have bad vision so I'm happy about larger screens and don't really care if I can put it in my pocket or a bag
Just carry your switch in your purse.
AMEN!!! 🙏
As a former staunch supporter of UMDs myself, the medium did have quite a few downfalls. One factor left unmentioned was how often the UMD drives would fail over a few years of use. My 2000 model's drive nearly died completely after about 300 hours playing Dissidia.
There were just so many reasons to mod the PSP and load games from a memory card. Even if you didn't want to pirate
@@Fallen608 it sped up everything and was just a better experience overall, it’s so weird how both Sony handhelds became absolute homebrew/piracy beasts though
Although GBA, DS and 3DS were certainly similar, the 3DS used regular SD cards, so it was a lot better in that respect than proprietary cards
I think the biggest problem was how fragile it was.
@Ronald Jackson “the lasers could fail” okay so stop demanding that new consoles like the PS5 and Xbox whatever have disc drives then
A modded Vita is a must have for modded console collectors. The ability to play PS1, PSP and Vita games on the go on one system is absolutely fantastic.
Yeah ps1, PSP and vita on one device is good......but on my aya neo: GameCube/wii, Dreamcast, PSP, ps2, ps3, 3ds, SNES
@@therunawaykid6523 someone is a salty Nintendo switch Aya neo corporate slave fanboy and nice of you to get triggered by responding to someone that mentions a vita.
Ps vita lives rent free in your head kid hahahah
@@EnaTenkiyoGamer Im not triggered I just have notifications turned on 🙄🙄
@@therunawaykid6523 hahaha have fun getting triggered over a ps vita that lives rent free in your head hahahha
@@EnaTenkiyoGamer bruh, PS vita only has 20+ legit games from 2013 and 99% of the others Vita games is a 2D japanese games 💀.
The psps memory was shared by Sony's cameras making it cheaper which is probably why it wasnt such a issue for a psp because there was many more in circulation
Yeh, the Memory Stick Pro Duos were shared by Sony's own digital cameras as well as their Walkman MP3 players - that's already three devices you could use them with.
And with that, SD adapters already existed, whereas making an adapter for a proprietary format which is used on one device is considerably harder, especially because of the size of the memory cards. Now it is possible to hack a Vita but as far as I know the adapter is on the game port and not on the memory card port.
I'm one of the people that always wanted a vita and either never had the cash for it or just lost interest when I could afford it, so I never got round to buying one. This was a great video for helping show me what I'd missed.
I was like you for a long time until maybe a year ago i finally got one for amazingly $60 and i’ve used it everyday since
He actually left some good games out, this system is awesome! Mortal Kombat 9 (first one with x-rays/PS3 port), Assassin's creed 3 Liberation, Assassin's Creed Bloodlines (PSP game/basically Assassin's Creed 1.5), Gravity Rush, Unit 13, Resident Evil Revalations 2, Flame Over, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Street Fighter X Tekken - not to mention a large amount of your digital PSP games/movies/TV shows are playable on PS Vita.
A portable ps3 my boy
I owned a PS Vita slim for 4 years before giving it away to one of my friends. Mainly played God Eater Resurrection for over 300+ hours, only the right analog stick was making slight noises but it was still working as intended. Played some FFX on it too and that was fun too! Racing games was GT PSP and Ridge Racer PSP that was 60fps and almost look like it can be played on a PS2! Yea.
Oh by the way, I got a 32GB card for like $50 on black Friday along with the PS Vita slim. Over 300 bucks and no game too! Fuck those memory cards to the core.
They are too expensive now.
i wanted the vita SO BAD when i was 12 years old. it was pretty much the coolest thing i could imagine. years later i got a used one and i still think its a really cool console, but i only think its worth buying if you are willing to jailbreak the hell out of it. Great video!
I loved my PS VITA, I wasn’t allowed to have a phone back then, so I used this as my main handheld, used it for games, TH-cam, Facebook etc. The only 2 physical games I ever owned for It was LBP Vita and Persona 4 Golden. Still have it to this day, I use it for Roms and Emulators.
Same here, I didn't get a smartphone until senior year of high school so the Vita was my main way of getting online for a few years.
What about porn?
@@ajinomoto831 I mean there was a web browser. ;p
It would have been waaaaaay better than phones back then. Just recently I'm getting into Android games because my phone runs them well and there's a lot of good ones nowadays.
Me too! Netflix on it was great too, all the apps worked pretty well. LBP was amazing online and so fun with friends
Always remember the weird feature where it would tell you about other people in your neighbourhood who also owned a PS Vita. you could chat to them too.
But Frobisher Says was one of my fave games, Sony's version of Wario Ware.
I remember Frobisher had a mini-game you could control with your eyelids by blinking.
@@SotNist squeezing zits by pinching the front and back of the Vita.
Never really knew about that feature since the console apparently sold so little here. I used to joke that I was one of the fifteen proud people in the NL that actually owned and played a Vita.
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9:34 You can fix that. In the settings, go to henkaku settings. You'll see an option labled "spoofed version". Select that, enter 3.73 and you should be good to go.
Thanks. I was going to bring that up but you beat me to the punch. There's still a big group of people playing COD: Black ops Declassified (myself included).
Fun fact: The only reason I asked for a PS Vita for Christmas was for Minecraft. It was absolutely the best version of Minecraft on the go at the time. Granted, both the Nintendo Switch and then the Bedrock version soon overtook that position, but I love my Vita. It's now my dedicated Persona console.
I would love a p5 demake on it just to have all of the games on the same system. Minecraft was so awesome on the vita too man. Good times
I would argue that the "big disaster" was Sony misidentifying the Vita as a disaster, thus creating a self fulfilling prophesy. There could have been other cost cutting measures made over time, and it could have stayed as a relatively niche but still successful system. From actual sales and impact, it's somewhat hard to argue that the Vita was a flop. Was the GBA a flop too because it was only on the market for a few years? No, because it sold a lot of games and we remember and think of it well. Was the Vita a flop because it was only on the market for a few years? Yes, because it didn't sell as many games, and we remember and think of it well. See the issue there? I prefer to look at cultural and industry impact over just regular sales numbers, and when I do so, it's hard to view the Vita as a "disaster".
Those executives can be made fun of now after seeing the success of the switch. The original plan for the vita was similar to how the switch worked.
This console was my obsession betweent like 2015-2019. Got around 100 physical games for it. I loved everything about the vita. I wish sony would give handhelds another shot
nah, smartphones have pretty much killed that market. I think the closest thing we'll get to a handheld console from now on is stuff along the lines of the Switch (or like gaming phones, if you want to count those)
@@ianism3 Gaming on phones suck, games like subway surfers or Clash of Clans are fun but anything more complex like Genshin or CoD mobile is just straight up a headache and not enjoyable to play on a phone.
@@ianism3 stay salty to sony portables Nintendo switch fanboy crying over a ps5 portable that you won't be able to afford. You aren't a true gamer lmao
Vita failed because of expensive memory cards plain and simple. Why no internal storage? I would have bought one if it came with a memory card. To buy the system, uncharted and a memory card was too much money for me.
After all these years, everytime I'm reminded that vita exists I still feel guilty for spending so much money to buy one. Literally played like 4 games for a month and then I chucked it into a drawer xd
Meh, that just means it'll work like brand new still.
Nintendo switch steam deck fanboy lmao
I use my aya neo as a:pc, PSP, GameCube/wii, Dreamcast, 3ds, ps2 😏😏
Worth noting that the PS Vita dev kit (PDEL-1000) has an HDMI output and can play retail games. Like combining the PS Vita and PSTV into one unit.
Isn’t that what the unused port was initially for?
Sounds like the original switch
@@killerwillies5460Probably. Still don’t understand why they didn’t just make a TV out cable for that plug in. PS TV was so pointless
honestly for me, my vita is the most fun console i've ever owned. i got it in 2012 for christmas and used it quite extensively. i made so many friends and had a blast everytime i used it. i recently "rediscovered" it and started playing with it again. i even got a new game! it's sad that sony ditched it so early since it had so much potential.
I absolutely adore the PS vita even to this day. I was always a ds kid and didn't get a Psp until my teens. The DS has a special place in my heart and I love my 3ds too. But after I got a PSP I was hooked and wanted a vita. I still use it to this day. Its a perfect homebrew and emulation machine and also has an amazing library spanning several consoles. It honestly has the 3DS beat IMO.
how do you get homebrew and emulators?
@@robin83915 Look it up
The vita was awesome, my favorite console for a long time. I owned pretty much every model, the 3G, the 1000, 2000, and I even had a PSTV at one point.
For me though, the Steam Deck is the PS Vita successor we never got, so its pretty much taken the place of my Vita at this point. Almost find it hard to go back to the small screen and lack of grips the vita has. Which is strange, the vita seemed massive in comparison to the PSP. Maybe someday handhelds will be the size of gaming laptops and we'll be talking about how small the steam deck and switch were 😅
The steam deck is absurdly large. It's fine for around the house, but it would be rather annoying to carry daily unless you also use it as your laptop for work.
Right now I'm trying to figure out where different devices fit in my life. Pc for gaming and pc vr, standalone vr setup too, then my switch for Nintendo games (I prefer to play on the switch instead of the pc due to the pick up and go functionality. My phone can handle ps2 gamecube etc emulation and anything less and even output to the TV at 4k easily. So that's a perfect portable retro console with an 8bitdo controller. It's a zfold 2 so the screen is glorious for retro games. No wide-screen patches needed. The switch is portable enough to go most places. But the one device that gives me the most games in the smallest sleakest, and most exclusive form is the vita. It's the go everywhere gaming beast. It's essential
As a massive fan of LBP, you honestly had to be there back when the games had a larger community. I found out a few months ago the servers died when I wanted to go on a nostalgia trip and now they feel pretty hollow. Personally I don’t care to know what the people left on the games even plan on doing now.
I loved the vita. I’m pretty sure the majority of games I played on it were from PS plus, but it was still amazing. It was how I discovered Hotline Miami. HOWEVER, I have to dock some points off for not mentioning Touch My Katamari. It’s the best Vita exclusive IMO.
The PS Vita was - and well, still is - my Project DIVA machine. None of the games I bought for it clicked as much as F and F 2nd, and yet those two games alone were enough to make me not bring my 3DS to school for a few months. Even after I got a PS3 to play those games on, the Vita still is the one and only way I can play them on the go. Project DIVA F 2nd and X even cross-save between PS3/PS4 and Vita!
I have both a 1000 and a 2000. For some strange reason, the ergonomics of the 1000 - with it being _ever so slightly_ thicker than the 2000 - absolutely ruin the ergonomics for my hands, and I get severe cramps after mere minutes of play. No other handheld has made my hands and wrists hurt so badly; it's absolutely nuts. I don't have this issue at all with the 2000 though, so I'm kinda just... Stuck with it.
Edit: Another detail I just remembered - when I first got the PCH-1000 (I had the PCH-2000 first), I actually had to readjust my timings in the Project DIVA games slightly due to the screen's faster response time. That faster response time actually made the notes as they flew onto the screen appear choppier, because the PCH-2000's screen had smearing that smoothed out the individual frames.
the vita is the best handheld ever made. Im not talking software or peripherals. Just the handheld itself. Its sleek, powerful, has a great OS, and had OLEDs almost a decade before they were mass marketed. Its capabilities are still respectable hardware wise and in features (camera, music player, sd card space)
And Bluetooth Headphone Support 🎧
Sony shot themselves in the foot over and over and over again with the Vita, and I hate it. I didn't get one until 2015, but I loved it thanks to all the support Japanese devs gave it and it being region-free. The memory card prices were and still are the absolute worst. Thank God for SD2Vita. And the PS store on Vita was never NOT a trainwreck to navigate.
Love my Vita, was a big hit buying the 64gb memory card back in the day!
Should've mention an option to overclock the modded vita. It slightly affects battery life (for me it was like half an hour shorter at most) but makes games far more enjoyable as framerate becomes much better/stable, plus loading times become shorter so I think It's a good tradeoff. Also there's a homebrew app that allows you to change games resolution/target famerate in some games. Combined with overclocking some games become much better. Some examples: in NFS Most Wanted you could change resolution to almost native and it would still run in 30 fps while looking on par with ps3 version, WipeOut 2048 is able to run in 60 fps and it looks fantastic, Killzone could to run either in native res 30 fps or 60 fps. Also some broken ports like Jak (btw you could also change target framerate in first game to 30 (by default it's just 20)), Resident Evil Revelations 2 and Borderlands 2 become slightly more playable, but don't expect too much from them.
I think that the UMD needed a floppy-disc-like cover because there's still an open window.
something like the MiniDisc but PSP
I bought a cheap PS Vita 2000 on eBay, modded it with the latest firmware even so I can play online and I did indeed get an SD2VITA cause fuck paying for those memory cards. The SD2VITA is a bit of a pain to set up I will admit but god it is SO worth it.
I got a PS Vita mostly to support the niche Japanese games long after SONY abandoned the handheld when the PS4 was released.
I got allot of good Japanese Imports as well as supported a fair few that were also released in English localization.
Though the PS Vita much like the PSP games I treasure the most are the ones I imported from Japan, the Anime style of games that I loved the most from the Queens Blade games on the PSP to the To Love Ru Darkness games on the PS Vita.
And there are a few hidden gems like Bullet Girls to Gal Gun Double Peace and even the Hyperdimension Neptunia series and spinoff games that had good support on the PS Vita.
Wow, this is honestly the first time I've ever heard someone claim they actually played games on their phone instead of a handheld console. That's honestly fucking wild. The general consensus really is that the extreme memory card prices, high price, bad battery, and lack of game support really were the reasons for Vita's failure, though. We know this to be true since 3DS did not have the same problems and had plenty of success.
I mean, I had the ability to buy a Vita at the time. I just chose to buy a 3DS instead and I played it (and other older handhelds) a ton at the time.
Anyway, great video. I highly recommend Gravity Rush if you ever can. It's definitely the best game on Vita, imo.
To be fair it came out when I was in college, which was a time of being financially cautious.
Smartphones were really popping off in 2011, Infinity Blade had launched, and people thought the 3DS was doomed too… until it was clear all the app store games sucked and wouldn’t get any better 😂 It seems obvious now, but back then even the Penny Arcade guys were making fun of the idea of toting a dedicated game device.
@@FrameRater That's definitely fair.
I was born in 98 and really only started playing video games in the early 2010s so I have zero connection to most of what you are talking about and that’s why I like your channel I get to quickly learn about a ton of games from consoles I never experiences beyond the most popular ones.
So take any console’s library from anytime before 2010 and run through all their games especially the mundane ones and I’ll be happy
Also I probably would have lost this channel if it wasn’t for your jingle
The Vita is such a sad story, it was like Sony wanted the damn thing to fail.
And maybe they did and that's why we haven't seen any other portable outings from them since?
If I remember correctly the PSPs memory sticks were made by brands other than Sony, that probably helped it a lot on top of there not being any proprietary dongles.
The Vita was probably my favorite handheld of all time. My previous favorite was the PSP, and the Vita plays PSP games soooo...
I badly need to do repairs to mine though. Battery is basically shot, right stick is wobbly as hell and lacks sensitivity, left stick feels mushy vertically, one of the speakers is blown somehow and I need a new charger for it, it still works but it's worn through the outer shielding. It's not that it's low quality I just played the thing A TON.
My only disagreement on the thing though is that it's far too tiny. But I have huge hands o that's probably got something to do with it. I got the Nerf Power Armor case for it and that makes it about perfect for me.
Modding the thing is also a must, especially with the ever looming store shut down. Last I messed with it you could still play online and access the store and stuff too.
My biggest complaint with modding it is actually Adrenaline, this may have been fixed but again, last I played with it, it introduced tons of input lag to PSP games.
All that said, with a Steam Deck order coming in the next couple months, I kind of doubt I'll see a lot more use of my Vita. It didn't have a ton of absolute must-have exclusives, there were a lot of good games but nothing really hit classic status to me that wasn't available elsewhere, and in its final days of regular use I was basically just playing PSP games on it, and the Steam Deck is going to do that better, currently if I feel the need I tend to just emulate them on PC. Plus some quantity of them is coming to PS5 so maybe even that would be somewhat unnecessary, though, I would miss the performance and HD texture patches/mods.
All in all it's an absolute tragedy that Sony abandoned the Vita so early on. If they'd gone with generic memory cards and charging/comms cables, they would've likely sold a lot more of the things. Another big problem it had is there was a ton of games promised for it early on that never showed, for example the Monster Hunter series was originally slated to continue on Vita but ended up on 3DS after a long silent period, I actually bought the Vita FOR that so that was disappointing, and I basically missed the whole 3DS catalogue of MH games, wasn't at all a fan of that thing. Monster Hunter pulled the same shit with the PS3 being its target platform after PS2 then going radio silent and popping up on Wii. A lot of stuff I got the thing for also just never came out in the west, like Phantasy Star Nova (which is SORTA playable with an import but a ways into the game the language barrier becomes insurmountable in the base building system). Basically all the stars aligned against the Vita which by all accounts should have succeeded but basically nothing that actually mattered came through for it, its creators, developers, 3rd party support and marketing all gave up on it while the fanbase never did, but the fans just weren't enough.
was just looking if you made a video about the vita cause i just bought one, but surprised you didn’t until now. glad to see you are covering it now
I remember buying the 3g vita at a discount shortly after release because our local best buy was having a going out of buisness sale. I loved the thing and really wish sony actually supported it for longer. Killzone and freedom wars were amazing at the time, but i could never get remote play to work well on it. It would work ok if i was at home with my ps4, but due to the lack of range of movement of the analog sticks, it made aiming in games without gyro support undoable. Trying remoteplay anywhere else besides my home would either simply not work, or the input lag would be so bad that you couldnt feasibly play anything. The only other dissapointment for me was the absolute abundance of jrpgs on the system, as, im not much of a fan of them outside of freedom wars and persona. If you do like jrpgs or visual novels, the vita is still one of the best systems to buy
Did you replace the modem with an sd card reader? Getting my replacement soon, looking forward to it!
@@NattiNekoMaid no, at the time i didnt even know that was a thing. Hope it works out for you though
As a huge fan of Nintendo’s handhelds, I am surprised the SONY PSP did not sell more. I’m surprised the PS VITA did not sell well (enough). Owning both a NDS and PSP, I can say that I enjoyed both for different reasons and the PSP was a beast for it’s time.
I absolutely loved, and still love, my Vita. Tons of hours spent on the Sword Art Online games, the Chaos Rings RPGs, and it even got me into Phantasy Star Online 2, which has become my favorite game series of all time. The fact I can play PSP and PS1 games on it makes it one of my favorite handhelds ever, and I still play it pretty consistently. WAY more portable then the Switch while still delivering some great games. Compromised from their other forms, but that makes it more fun i find.
Never really liked Sony but when I got my PSP, it was the greatest thing ever. Movies, music, games, comic books, etc. I took it everywhere! It was my smart phone before I had a smart phone (got one in 2010).
I actually Pre-ordered the Vita and bought a 16GB memory card the day before it came out. The system didn't disappoint but my phone did most of the things the Vita did. When that memory card filled up, I quit buying games.
Still have it on display in my man cave along with the original packaging!
I remember getting Call of Duty and being so disappointed by it. Hostiles was kind of fun to see how far you could get, but I would always have preferred they made a zombies mode instead. Portable Kino (not that god awful Android port) would have been a huge improvement, in my opinion at least.
I got a PSVita for my 13th Birthday. Now I am [REDACTED] years old, and I still have it. Actually, I bought a 2nd one because I broke the rear touch pad of the 1st one when trying to replace its battery.
Despite being a Nintendo fanboy I loved the psp. I was excited about the announcement of the vita until they confirmed it would use a new proprietary memory stick. That killed it immediately for me. However, I probably still would've gotten one eventually if SquareEnix had supported the system the same way they did the psp. But Sony just got way too greedy with the memory stick and the system was DOA.
I wonder if the memory stick was necessary for enough speed for digital games, because sd cards aren't as fast as built in flash storage on phones/consoles. But if Nintendo switch does just fine with SD cards, then I don't see why Sony would think they are too slow. (Unless fast enough SD cards didn't exist back when ps Vita came out)
Biggest upgrade for anyone getting a Vita today is definately a SD2Vita card, it allows you to put a SD card into the game slot. Yes, you lose the ability to put in game cards in as quick as without one, but since you need to mod your Vita to use a SD2Vita anyways, you can also rip your physical games and put all of them on the SD card.
9:14 Gent, every hacked Vita can play online with absolute ease. In fact it's harder now to find a way _not_ to be able to play online lol.
I still play my Vita sometimes, I love it. It's also the only console I can play Shinovi Vs on. The Ninja Gaiden Sigma port was outstanding on it and it had the best version of Street Fighter X Tekken
I liked that the Vita port of Ninja Gaiden 2 allowed you to switch the gore/dismemberment back on from the Xbox 360 original. We still don't got that option in the recent Ninga Gaiden Master Collection for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and pc.
Another great video to add to the list of videos commemorating this sadly abandoned piece of hardware. I have to ask something though:
1) Talking about battery life, have you considered the fact that the console is over 10 years old at this point and the battery probably isn't at its best? Or are the numbers taken from back then? My Vita also lasts about 4 hours or a bit more depending on the game, but like yours, unless the battery has been changed, it's probably not at full capacity anymore
2) I don't know if you know, but if you search for vita guide (not adding the magic keyword because YT's filter filters this but not real spam) is the most updated way to mod your psvita, remove the update prompt and, especially, the guide for SD2Vita is extremely simple and well explained compared to the screenshot you sent in the video
Also, if someone is not aware, PSVita's analog sticks are SO GOOD because apparently they're hall-effect analogs designed specifically for the console, meaning they are way less prone to drift (if not completely immune to that) compared to the usual sticks used in modern consoles (which are made by 2 companies)
The Vita sticks are legendary imo. Only flaw was no L3/R3. Switch feels awful, inaccurate, and it drifted straight out of the box PLUS the buttons and stick barely respond unless you push them significantly more than you'd want to.
Vita buttons and sticks are all accurate and responsive. It's a great system, Soyny's last great console (that's not a typo).
@@Vulpas L3/R3 could be done by using the upper left/right corners of the rear touchpad, there's some gripshells for the Vita 1000 and 2000 that come with optional plates that attach to the touchpad (double-sided tape) and provide triggers to perform L3/R3, useful if doing Remote Play over the LAN to a PS3 or PS4 (such as playing Persona 5 Royal in bed and your PS4 Pro is sitting in the living room).
Downside to using those plates is you lose on the full function of the rear touchpad for Vita games, but with PS4 Remote Play the touchscreen replicates the DS4's trackpad.
There's this magical thing called Google, have you considered using it?
PS Vita's expected battery life while gaming was 3 to 5 hours. 4 hours is right in line with expectations, not the result of an old and degraded battery.
@@mjc0961 I don't understand the point of being rude like that. You say PSVita's expected battery life is 3 to 5 hours, but there's no information regarding brightness or wifi and bt on/off.
For example, if you get 4 hours with all that stuff turned off and low brightness then it surely can be battery degradation. It's not like batteries are eternal anyways, and after 10 years there is no way they didn't degrade even a little bit.
@@mjc0961 That time of the month, bro?
Console teardowns and documentaries are my fav. Please do many more.
I recently rediscovered my Vita 1000 and 3DS which were resting in a storage box for years. After modding them, I feel they are going through a second youth and, honestly, I'm now enjoying them way more than I did when they were first released. I think we are lucky that the homebrew community has put so much love and support on these devices and today it's worth it to pick one of them (or both) if you can find a good second hand deal.
There's a level editor in Banana Splitz and it's the most bizarre way to make a level ever. You take a photo of something and the game tries to analyze the contours inside the image and builds a level out of that. You also need to shake the Vita for a bit before it can actually build the level, because of course you have to do that, and you can continue shaking it two more times, because of course you can. I still have no clue what shaking it does.
Working a game store back then, I remember so many people complaining about the PSP not having a 2nd analog stick.
"Here's the Vita!"
(Proceed to complain about no L2/R2 buttons...)
I bet some of those people now complain about the Switch's small buttons.
It really felt like the public was just looking for reasons to despise the Vita.
(See scathing reviews of Resistance's controls....Which were fine.)
And anything that wasn't perfect had 0 forgiveness. The Vita was imperfect, but never given a chance at all.
Resistance and Black Ops on Vita were made WITH THE SAME ENGINE. I don't understand why the COD Devs didn't use their COD engine to make everything better.
It is kind of strange how much the vita flopped while the Nintendo handhelds at the same time were booming. I think Sony really shot themselves in the foot by targeting such a high price point and making such stupid decisions as proprietary memory cards. I had a Vita at launch and I loved it but buying that memory card was such a kick in the balls I'm not surprised that it turned a lot of other people off
As a Vita fan, I appreciate the detail you went into. It was the first console I was able to hack with ease and the amount of homebrew and love it got from everyone not named Sony was great. I got lucky and scored a PSTV for cheap just so I could have another way of playing it.
It's too bad Sony gave up on it almost immediately. No matter what the reason may have been, they did the Vita dirty after putting in the work to make it one of the best handhelds in looks and overall comfort factor.
I turned on my Vita for the first time in ages last night, the music started up, and the nostalgia punched me right in the face.
Man I loved my Vita right up until the memory card died. They're fucking expensive to replace and, at the time, there was no alternative but the official memory card.
That memory card, in my opinion, seriously held back the system's popularity because it probably convinced people to stay away from buying games they wouldn't be able to easily store, or getting the system altogether. They should have just let it use micro SD, something easier to replace.
I never owned an PSP or PSVita, since I was a DS kid. But years later, I feel almost jealous I never touched any of these consoles. They were incredible for their time, besides the price.
I had the vita since launch and supported it the whole way through Sony dropped the ball with this console. It is and continues to be(with the homebrew dev scene) my favorite handheld of all time I have my vita in my car so if I'm ever stranded somewhere I have something on hand to play. I cannot say enough good things about the console... Also the vita tv was amazing as well
I own a PS5, Xbox, Switch, and i STILL don’t even play them as much as my Vita; honestly my favorite thing ever
is it modded?
I remember well being all excited for the Vita after having so much fun with my PSP-2000.
Then infos about those proprietary memory cards came in which were brutally overpriced... and that's how my journey with the Vita ended before it even began.
I just don't get why Sony engineered a whole new memory format when the Memory Stick M2 micro (the one used in the PSP Go) was literally smaller (both are apparently 15*12.5 mm, but the M2 is 1.2 mm thick and the PSV one is 1.6 mm thick). Of course, better case scenario would've been to use microSD (microSD had been a proven technology since 2005, with a 32 GB microSD card costing around $30 or so in 2012 according to an article I found, as opposed to the RRP of ~$120 for a 32 GB PSV card)
I wonder if choosing to go with a more open standard as opposed to their proprietary one may have saved the Vita from its sad existence here in the West.
Actually knew a couple people who bought fewer games because the memory cards were so expensive they didn't have space to load the games
I kinda wished you talked about the PS Vita emulator that's currently in the works, I hope it can get some more attention, it really needs it 😔
I have heard of it, does it run any commercial games yet?
Also there is a great psp emulator for pc that I’ve found runs every psp game I’ve tried pretty much perfectly
I had such high hopes for the Vita and I very much enjoyed my time on it. Eventually though I slowly stopped playing it cause while there are some good Vita originals, I ended up mainly just playing ports of other games. I got the original model Vita the day after its release. The next year, my friend accidentally caused us to fall into some water and my Vita was in my pocket at the time, so...that was that. The next year I got a Vita Slim (or 2000 I guess) and I had it for a few years. I did eventually sell it though since I hardly played it anymore. Sometime later I got another cause I missed my original, but I soon realized how much the good games cost and how much the memory cards were. I had plenty of games I could still download, but I wasn't going to spend a lot of money on a big memory card or the now overpriced games. So as of now, I no longer have a Vita. It did have a good run with me, but Sony should've treated it better.
Nintendo switch fanboy crying over a Sony portable lol
@@EnaTenkiyoGamer I was a big fan of the Vita when it first came out. I like some games on the Switch, but I'm not a Switch fanboy lol
@@DannyBenS94 Stop crying over a Sony piece of plastic that still exists and can remote play ps4 games on the vita and has more ps4 games to play on the handheld more than the switch and I guarantee switch doesn't have all of those games and only some. Where is call of duty, wwe 2k series besides the bad wwe 2k18, madden NFL series, a tekken fighting game, and other games that are on other platforms but aren't on the switch? Seems to me that switch has some flaws and is a underpowered 30fps crappy kiddy toy and Nintendo now is a garbage company.
Ps vita can remote play almost any game that ps4 has as long as they come to ps4. Lmao
@@EnaTenkiyoGamer I don't think you understood me lol I was a big fan of the Vita and I still think it's an awesome little device that does have some features and games I wish was on the Switch. And I said there are some games I like on the Switch, but I'm not a fanboy lol if I was, I would excuse nearly everything Nintendo does on it, which I don't lol
Why did the criticism of boxes with voucher codes fade out, it hasn't gotten any less stupid. why go digital only if you're not doing it to cut down on plastic?
I think we've collectively realized that as long as it's making money, they won't stop. I imagine everything will be digital some day, but these will die out long before that.
PS Vita 2 could be a success if they ever brought it back. Push the PlayStation Now pass on it. Give it Internal memory starting at 64GB and expandable SD card storage, OLED screen, proper L1/L2 R1/R2, USB-C charger, and improved battery life. Finally add HDMI port for TV connection. Only issue I see is will this thing have original games or will it be a ps play/ digital only device? 🤔
Bought a Vita at the end of January ish this year because there was a good handful of games I wanted to play on it (via hacking, because no way I'm buying all those expensive games). Turns out there was only like... around 6 ish (Vita) games I *actually* enjoyed on the system (of the ones I tried anyway), and none of those are actually exclusive, so yeah. Kinda put it down after trying everything I wanted to, but I still like to use it at times for PSP or GBA emu stuff.
Neat little system if you wanna do homebrew/emulation or play games like Gravity Rush on the go but (GR feels really cool on Vita btw)... It's otherwise kinda meh imo. At least nowadays where its better games are basically on every other system.
You can also play Jet Set Radio :)
Used to play on my vita a lot, nice little system for what it was
Fun fact, Riley, the firefighter, is in Resistance 3, seen sharpening his AX in the background in the beginning.
Only a few minutes in but i'm loving this Tearaway soundtrack representation ✊😔
As someone who runs a pair of Vita 110x's (the 3G/WiFi Phat), VitaTV (Jpn import) & PSTV (Aus Retail) - An alternate to using the SD2Vita for the 110x units is a PSVSD board to replace the 3G modem - once you've downgraded to 3.60, got Henkaku working as a coldboot install. After you got the PSVSD set up you no longer need the Vita MemCard but can still use legit Vita Gamecarts along with running downloads and homebrew off the PSVSD (you can also dump your gamecarts to the PSVSD as well).
Additionally, if you have the VitaTV/PSTV microconsole (just a Vita 2000 built to hook up to TV) - with CFW you can run the system off a USB thumbdrive instead of needing a SD2Vita. Downside is you might need a USB hub to hold the thumbdrive and a cable to plug your DS3/DS4 in to in order to resync the controller to the microconsole if it's been a while since last used.
I still want to get a vita sometime. Got my modded 3ds, modded wii, Google TV for n64 and Android games and patched switch. Maybe I'll pick a vita up this year.
The most overlooked game for PS Vita: Shinobido 2.
After the original two Tenchu games for PS1, the rights for the franchise went to From Software, and it's been releasing mediocre Tenchu games for years. Meanwhile the original devs of the first two Tenchu games made Shinobido in 2004. A game that is the spiritual successor to the original Tenchu, and one that improves upon its every aspect. They then released a PSP spinoff and a sequel exclusively for PS Vita. Shinobido 2 is simply the best game in the ninja stealth genre. Severely underrated. This is one PS Vita exclusive that I feel sad about not being ported anywhere. Killzone and other big name titles might look great, but are really mediocre games if you judge them without discount for their portability. Shinobido 2, on the other hand, is better than anything you'd find in this genre on any other platform. A real gem.
I keep saying uncharted and killzone still blow my mind graphically realizing that this console did all this 5 to 6 years before switch.
Damn, he talked about how great the analog sticks are and not the godlike D-Pad that they still speak of as legend to this day.
The failure of PSVita is strictly related to the time it came out, imo. 2011 was the golden rise of smartphones and mobile gaming, a completely non-existent concept back in 2005 (as in proper mobile gaming, not the snake game in a nokia). That's why PSP was such a big deal. For example, nowadays anyone can download a free psp emulator from play store and play any game they want as an .ISO. Of course, it's not the same experience, but most people would rather go for that than buying a 400 bucks handheld console.
I was a hardcore vita boy. I bought one day one, got the expensive memory card, bought a shitload of the games, it was great. Genuinely the way I played Persona 4, Dragonquest Builders (which was exclusive at the time) and Minecraft. I even plat'd Hotline Miami 2 on the thing.
vita goated love my oled 1000
Ah yes the Persona 4 Golden and Danganronpa Machine
Love my Vita, got it in 2016 or so. It doesn’t get much play now because of my Switch and PS5, but I still have a special place in my heart for it. I paid like $140 for the OLED model and about 7 games. Tearaway, FFX/X2 Remaster, Killzone, Resistance, Uncharted, Persona 4, and Assassins Creed I think. Was worth ever penny and a great deal. I’ve been a Sony guy since the late 90’s, but the way they tossed the Vita aside was horrible. I’m glad there’s still a dedicated fanbase. I wish we found out what the Vita really could have been, hell there was even a Bioshock game in development, crazy. Thanks for the coverage of this underrated and almost forgotten console.
You can spoof a current firmware to access PSN without updating, it’s in the henkaku settings in the settings app!
I really liked the PS Vita, the only problem with it was it had almost no exclusive games so there was no point in even owning one. Sure it had a lot of games on the platform, but almost every game on the Vita was also released on either the PC or console, so what use did I have for the vita? Even at the time it felt like the system had absolutely no support, and looking at the list of exclusives now it makes sense why it felt that way. The vita felt comfortable to play for long periods unlike the 3ds (new 3ds without the circle pad pro is brutal), but the 3ds library was massive and I almost always had something to play with my friends.
Stay salty to sony portables Nintendo switch fanboy lol
21:18 wasn't expecting a nitro rad cameo in the video
One other storage option I don't see mentioned very much, PSVSD. For those with a 3G model like myself, you can take out the 3G module and place an SD card reader instead. Double that with an extender that fits into the SIM card slot and you got authentic SD card function! It's worth checking out 😊
I only have a single PS Vita game, that being a PAL copy of Lego Batman 2. It’s the only foreign game I have that works, the only other foreign game I have is a Japanese Jet Set Radio for Dreamcast.
2:17 What even is that image? Seriously, that's one of the weirdest ads I've ever seen for a game system. And I've seen some shit before.
32GB Micro SD cards are just 5-8 USD. The Vita 32GB memory card was $100 at launch.
Sony killed the Vita due to greed.
Vita is ultimately a Weeb machine. I know since Im a fan of Persona and got everygame except 5 on this thing
Tearaway, lbp vita, ratchet and clank. Not really a 100% weeb machine (and before you say that’s only 3 games, there’s only like 8 games on the vita anyway lol) but I did get introduced to persona from it as you can tell from my profile
Lol wasn't the Vita basically kept alive by visual novels/ porn games until the Switch took over that scene?
I still find it insane that there have been dozens of Gaming phones, and yet none of the modern ways are tying to emulate the Xperia Play, Vita, or PSP Go.
Choose whether you want to collect and play game cards or play (and maybe but probably not buy) entirely digitally with an SD2Vita. The Vita OS only expects there to be one internal storage device, and that's where it's going to write the Home Menu's database. You can change the mount point of your Vita memory card (if you have one) and use it for the database instead, but that's a lot of trouble to go through and defeats the purpose anyway.
my Vita came with a SD2Vita since it was already jailbroken... (came with a 64 GB microsd card)
Well about the Killzone series.
The last one, Killzone Shadowfall was bad. Like the story made no sense, they pulled in things that made no sense, and it basically became CoD Infinite Warfare with cringe themes
4:50 "Here's a Listerine strip for size comparison"
*shows a Switch game*
I traded my 2 psps and an nds for a vita last year, because I always wanted one and after I jailbroke it I could play psp games on it anyway. I am a massive Warriors games fan so I use it to play Dynasty Warriors 8,Samurai Warriors 4, One Piece Warriors 3, Berserk Warriors, Warriors Orochi 3 etc - on the go.
hotline Miami would be amazing to play on the go, cant wait for their next game
After Killzone there wasn’t another good fps released. I probably put more hours of Killzone in that anyone else. Kinda bummed the Vita turned into a mainly JRPG handheld after all AAA developers abandoned it.
It's funny how even today, there's all these Chinese handhelds made in 2021-22 that advertise that they can play PSP games, but many are limited to 2D scrollers and puzzle games. Many struggle with God of War and others. Yet, here we have the PS Vita from 2012 playing every PSP game it can at full speed and no hacks or frame skipping needed.
Fun fact, I never bought any physical game for my ps Vita. I only had the ff7/8/9/tactics from the store. Lol.
i think another reason the psvita invizimal game isnt too fondly remembered is because of the weird bass ackward decision of having it tie into the ps3 title that released along side it to unlock a decent chunk of the game... when the other prior invizimal games never did anything similar to it in the slightest
that cancelled Diablo clone would be an instant install for my Vita... just why pray tell it was cancelled? and i do hope someday people could breach into servers to find any cancelled game data to then have it repackaged into a VPK
Got my very first Vita this week😊 I’ll probably get some of them sidescroller games, rayman, LBP, etc.
Very happy you're still trucking along with these videos
Such a shame we never got that infamous game on the vita which was cancelled, also the ridiculously expensive memory cards pretty much killed it
Hahah nice salt untrue gamer hahaha
A Sony piece of plastic lives rent free in your head 12 year old kid lol
@@EnaTenkiyoGamer man your such a troll
@@therunawaykid6523 then stop crying about ps vita or any other Sony portable like ps5 portable. Your opinions aren't facts kid lol
Looks like sony is making a ps5 remote play device only called q lite. Hahaha stay triggered to that steam deck fanboy lmaooooooooooooo