After the Vita price drop, I was seriously considering buying one, but then had difficulty finding more than one or two games I would want to buy immediately for the handheld.
But after looking at the PSP game library (and somewhat inspired by this Tri-Ace memorial thread, I found a lot of quality titles available for the platform, many of which are still UMD-only (especially looking at you, Crisis Core), and could be had for less than $20 each.
Disclosure, I had a PSP several years ago but traded it in, along with all of my games.
So I decided to buy a PSP-300 for $100 and stocked up on 11 titles for around $140 total:
That's $240 for a handheld with a great library of games, along with access to the PSN catalog (and all the PSOne titles I've already purchased for the PS3). I would have spent $200 for the Vita and another $60 on a memory card, with maybe a pack-in game and a couple of PS+ titles, and would have already overspent what I did on the PSP.
Maybe the PS4 will change the conversation for the Vita, but right now Sony has another handheld still on store shelves that's a much better value proposition.
But after looking at the PSP game library (and somewhat inspired by this Tri-Ace memorial thread, I found a lot of quality titles available for the platform, many of which are still UMD-only (especially looking at you, Crisis Core), and could be had for less than $20 each.
Disclosure, I had a PSP several years ago but traded it in, along with all of my games.
So I decided to buy a PSP-300 for $100 and stocked up on 11 titles for around $140 total:
- FFVII: Crisis Core
- Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
- Lunar
- Patapon 2
- Persona
- Persona 2
- Riviera
- Star Ocean First Departure
- Star Ocean Second Evolution
- Tales of the World
- Valkyrie Profile Lenneth
That's $240 for a handheld with a great library of games, along with access to the PSN catalog (and all the PSOne titles I've already purchased for the PS3). I would have spent $200 for the Vita and another $60 on a memory card, with maybe a pack-in game and a couple of PS+ titles, and would have already overspent what I did on the PSP.
Maybe the PS4 will change the conversation for the Vita, but right now Sony has another handheld still on store shelves that's a much better value proposition.