Nothing. I love mine. I also know Japanese though, so that helps.
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Austin Bennett
Isaac Moore
Nothing much. Currently playing through Final Fantasy Tactics on mine. Really cool having such a ludicrously vast library on a handheld without even having to dip into third party emulation. Everything Vita, PSP and PS1 out of the box.
Jeremiah Flores
Stupid expensive memory cards and no actual killer app (Gravity Rush is too niche, normie shit like Uncharted was heavily watered down). Visual novels and 2D indie games don't sell consoles alone. I do use mine mostly for PS1 and PSP games, plus it has a decent web browser.
Nicholas Russell
>without even having to dip into third party emulation
I enjoy this as well, but for some reason it makes people inconsolably angry if you don't hack your Vita.
Thomas Long
I've hacked mine, but mainly to give me more flexibility with those three platforms. Lots of games never got PSN releases, or did but in a different region to your PSN account, so it's way easier in my experience with a hacked one.
But yeah, people get weirdly angry about unhacked systems. My 1000 still isn't hacked, had it since launch and it's doing me just fine.
Jackson Williams
memory cards
and sony didnt believe
Aaron Jackson
Unironically this.
How fuckin popular would it have gotten if they ignored the emulation controversy and left it open and allowed it to flourish and dropped the price %20 while trashing that UMD POS drive.
Christopher Perry
I've yet to run into a game I want that I can't buy on the jp PSN store that I don't already have on another platform or have emulated on my PC. I'm very happy with mine.
Asher Rogers
early ps3 level of no games, homebrew scene is a shitshow, they traded l2 and r2 for a shitty touchpad.
Easton Collins
My main PSN account is an EU one since I'm down under. Not an issue with PS1 classics or whatever on PS3, but the Vita's insistence on locking you to one account at once makes juggling a headache. The experience of playing Xenogears, which to this day doesn't have a release here, juggling it between my US PSN account on PS3 and my Vita? That was all the convincing I needed. So I guess it depends on your use case really.