PSVITA

About my PSVITA!

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For those who don't know, the PSVITA was an expirimental sequel by SONY to their Playstation Portable console, which was competition to the Nintendo DS and was pretty successful. The Playstation Portable (PSP) was meant to be what it said on the tin, a portable equivalent to a Playstation console. It was rather ahead of its time but the PSP was just a proof of concept to show that they indeed, could make a portable console and to test the waters of its reception. A few years later, the Playstation Vita came out as its successor. It was immensely powerful, small, and silent. It could even play some PS3 games completely accurate to their console versions like Minecraft and Persona. However, the 3DS completely dwarfed it in sales. And the console, despite being undeniably revolutionary, was a complete failure and made a negligible amount of money compared to the amount it took to make. It was promptly abandoned by SONY in 2015/16. Despite it's official abandonment, there are plenty places to find them and the fan community is thriving still. The homebrew and hacks are great, including stuff like Serious Sam, Max Payne, Unreal, and that old bug game that came with educational Macs back in the day. (Bugdom I've been informed as of writing)

I received my own PSVITA as a Christmas gift just last Christmas, actually. (2025 as of writing) I found an image online of the exact same PSVITA model and colour that I have, personally. It's coloration is most definitely the reasoning for this page being blue. ("What is wrong with you? Why are you BLUE!?!?") Here it is:

My Vita

The image is even more accurate since the Vita I have is Japanese. Which is weird, since my PS3 is too. I, as you can probably guess, am not Japanese nor do I know very much of it. My Vita is hacked, of course, so I don't really have to worry about Japanese encoding since it's simple to bypass. I've also absolutely loaded it with digital copies of games since thanks to the hack I expanded the storange to a whole 256 GB! One of these games being LittleBigPlanet for the Vita, which might be one of my favorite games in the whole franchise. (I absolutely adore LittleBigPlanet and chances are I'll end up making a page about it)