When I heard Sony was releasing a handheld and it was just a more expensive backbone, I lost it. Why not make a handheld gaming system where you can play your purchased games without having to be connected to your PS5 or WiFi??
It would be nice to be able to pull out a gaming system that’s handheld that has every single game I have on my PS5 that I can play on the go. But it also be its own system where if I download something onto it, it would pop up on my PS5 but I don’t have to worry about losing connection.
Something like that where I can continue the progress from where I left off and once I get home and it reconnect to the Wi-Fi it just updates my Home console so I can continue on there and vice versa.
i absolutely loved everything about the psvita as a kid. someone stole it out of my bag at school... but if they didn't id probably still play on it occasionally to thus day
Nah. I thought that too when I picked it up years ago. Thinking it would be crap, I was pleasantly surprised on how good it was. It was definitely an underrated handheld. More people needed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did! The proprietary memory card was dumb, though.
Well, it is crap because people were asking Sony for the next handheld having analog sticks and L2/R2 triggers but instead they gave us dual thumb sticks and a rear touch pad that only like 5 games used.
Also, the majority of good games was only made in Japan and never released elsewhere.
Ya but those good games were also released on other consoles as well like as an example the Gundam Breaker series which was also on the PS3 at the time and had more content.
Since sd2vita uses microsd cards in a vita card adapter, you can put a huge capacity microsd cards and load it up with games. And its sooo much cheaper than the real Vita cards. Needs to be jailbroken, though.
Mine won't turn on after a bit of rain water got on the vita for a short period. It wasn't soaked. Just droplets. It still scrambled the board and it won't turn on fully. I loved that handheld.
A fascinating thing about Fallout 4 from the Vita is that several games that used remote play had support for Vita specific control schemes. I know other games also had unique Vita control layouts, but this is one that always stood out.
This system was so frustrating, I got one in 2013 and I don't really get the cult-life fanbase around it. Everything but incredibly niche JRPGs dried up fast and it felt like they put more work into kneecapping hack entrypoints than making the experience good.
It absolutely is, makes it feel more like how the Vita should of always been. Though it was a pain to initially setup since you have to convince it to use the SD adapter as default storage which is worse if you have the original model without built in storage.
I never understood it myself. EVERYONE I knew talked it up so I bought one, played nothing and sold it a few months later. Today those same people are just Sony fanboys and will buy anything with the brand on it. Wish I realized that years ago haha
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#goated #handheld
But the Vita does look really cool! In addition to the outstanding library you also have a vibrant homebrew scene. It's definitely tempting.
this is why the ps3 and psp are like objectively a better media devices than the vita/ps4/ps5.
they had sony’s media people in on the design - not anymore
Plenty of storage, homebrew, emulation, and over clocking make it incredible. Became my favorite handheld after that.
Also, the majority of good games was only made in Japan and never released elsewhere.
The console was good and there were plenty decent games, sadly the memory cards are expensive and the games are up too much space on them.
https://www.psdevwiki.com/vita/index.php?title=Hidden_Modes#Recovery_Menu
https://www.polygon.com/2015/11/9/9700770/fallout-4-ps-vita-remote-play-controls
Hack itself was easy thankfully.
But yeah I still have my jailbroken Vita