Is the Vita worth buying?

Yes, find a bundle you like, buy Persona 4:Golden, Gravity Rush, Little Big Planet Vita, Uncharted Golden Abyss, Mutant Space Blobs, and Sound Shapes. Also get at least the 8 GB memory card.

It would also help to find some grips, they make it alot more comfortable to hold and are only 10 dollars.

absolutely man... it's a great piece of hardware, except of gaming you'll also appreciate the other features it offers you! The graphics are the best you can get in a handheld device and the games library building up steadily, few months ago I'd say no to Vita (even though I bought it day 1) due to lack of games but now there are some decent games out and after E3 we'll get a major boost for sure. The price also droped now and don't forget that you can also play PS one and PSP games on it and it will be fully integrated with the future PS4.

So Yes it is worth buying...

If you have to ask then no. At least, not for you anyway.

Do it! Go now!

If you have to ask then no. At least, not for you anyway.

Gxgear

Definitely don't get it brand new. There are hardly any decent exclusives available for the Vita platform at present. Scoring yourself a second hand one with a few games thrown in might be the way to go.

If you're interested in some/most games currently available on PSV, then go for it..

Its a great handheld !!

Thanks everyone for the opinions. I haven't purchased a Sony product in years (PS2) but the Vita looked promising and the PS Store is full of great items, plus it has an ATLAS game so I'm basically sold. Always appreciated :)AP3Xoblivion

just make sure to sunscribe to PSN plus as well, this way you can get free games and discount on many other. Also owning a PS vita + PSN plus account will make the upcomming PS4 a very sweet option.

[QUOTE="AP3Xoblivion"]Thanks everyone for the opinions. I haven't purchased a Sony product in years (PS2) but the Vita looked promising and the PS Store is full of great items, plus it has an ATLAS game so I'm basically sold. Always appreciated :)V3rciS

just make sure to sunscribe to PSN plus as well, this way you can get free games and discount on many other. Also owning a PS vita + PSN plus account will make the upcomming PS4 a very sweet option.

Check out the games and see. Its definitely worth buying if there are games your interested in. The hardware itself is amazing.

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[QUOTE="AP3Xoblivion"]Thanks everyone for the opinions. I haven't purchased a Sony product in years (PS2) but the Vita looked promising and the PS Store is full of great items, plus it has an ATLAS game so I'm basically sold. Always appreciated :)Kaisfate

just make sure to sunscribe to PSN plus as well, this way you can get free games and discount on many other. Also owning a PS vita + PSN plus account will make the upcomming PS4 a very sweet option.

Well I don't know maybe cause that makes sense? I mean it's obvious that Vita will cooperate a lot with the upcomming PS4, it already does with PS3 but not to the level Sony wanted it, so I can see them trying harder with PS4... and PSN Plus at the moment has like the best deals on games. Even offering some good games for free...

I just can't understand what exactly you found to be so absurd in my comment?

no its not worth it currently. 3ds is the better choice currently, but vita will also be viable in few months. price cut(probably a new cheaper model) and lots of good games. so either wait few months for vita or buy a 3ds.

no its not worth it currently. 3ds is the better choice currently, but vita will also be viable in few months. price cut(probably a new cheaper model) and lots of good games. so either wait few months for vita or buy a 3ds.

aryanbrar

[QUOTE="aryanbrar"]

no its not worth it currently. 3ds is the better choice currently, but vita will also be viable in few months. price cut(probably a new cheaper model) and lots of good games. so either wait few months for vita or buy a 3ds.

Kaisfate

Well you see differently than others...

PSV doesnt offer hundreds of games but it does have great ones

Uncharted, LBP, Gravity Rush, Assassins Creed, Persona, PSABR, Wipeout, Unit13, Disgea, Fifa, SFxTekken, Mortal kombat, Blazblue, NFS, Rayman Origins, UMvC3 etc

Coming up there are also games like Killzone, Tearaway, DOA5+, Phantasy Star Online 2, Malicious, Guacamelee, NGS2+, Muramasa, Legend of Heroes, Ratchet & Clank, Soul Sacrifice, Warriors Lair, Sly and others... (Not bad imo)

you see only 5 games worth buying, others (incl myself) see more...

I dont know how much free time/money people have but is not like a system needs 8 great games to release per month in order to consider its library good..

Really depends on what games you're into.
Do you have a 3DS already? If not, then it's definitely a better investment(for now anyway).
It has a decent library of good first-party Nintendo games.
(2 Mario side-scrollers, Paper Mario, Mario Kart 7, Zelda: OoT, Kid Icarus: Uprising)
and games like Fire Emblem: Awakening, Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion 2 are coming out this year as well.
Zero Escape is a great game if your into story puzzles and so is Prof. Layton Miracle Mask of course, the former of which
is also on the Vita and actually a better port on the PSV.
If you like Persona, you might like SMT:Soul Hackers which is getting ported and localized for the 3DS. It follows more
of a traditional SMT game, so it's not nearly as "anime-ish" as P4. I personally like the Persona series better since
it's more accesible to most gamers and the style appeals more to me.
If you're a fan of Monster Hunter, 3 Ultimate and 4 are both going to be 3DS exclusives(there are rumors that the latter
is going to be on PSV as well though).
Just recently Project X Zone(a tactical Sega, Namco, Capcom crossover) has been announced for localization.
Pokemon XY and Ace Attorney 5 are somewhere in the distant or not so distant future.

Alot of the PSV games out now are ports of previously released games. Alot of them fighting games.
And some of them my be purchasable through Xbox I think. Not a whole lot of exclusives.

Sorry if I came in here sounding like I was advertising for 3DS. Just throwing my opinion out there.
Hope it was helpful though. My eyes are dead and I'm head to bed.

Oh, and if you do decide to get Vita and P4Golden, I'll guarantee you'll have a blast :D
(IF you're into traditional JRPGS with an anime theme). Definitely a good vacation game.
I think easily logged in more than a 100 hours on the original for PS2.

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[QUOTE="aryanbrar"]

no its not worth it currently. 3ds is the better choice currently, but vita will also be viable in few months. price cut(probably a new cheaper model) and lots of good games. so either wait few months for vita or buy a 3ds.

Malta_1980

Well you see differently than others...

PSV doesnt offer hundreds of games but it does have great ones

Uncharted, LBP, Gravity Rush, Assassins Creed, Persona, PSABR, Wipeout, Unit13, Disgea, Fifa, SFxTekken, Mortal kombat, Blazblue, NFS, Rayman Origins, UMvC3 etc

Coming up there are also games like Killzone, Tearaway, DOA5+, Phantasy Star Online 2, Malicious, Guacamelee, NGS2+, Muramasa, Legend of Heroes, Ratchet & Clank, Soul Sacrifice, Warriors Lair, Sly and others... (Not bad imo)

you see only 5 games worth buying, others (incl myself) see more...

I dont know how much free time/money people have but is not like a system needs 8 great games to release per month in order to consider its library good..

lets be honest i haven't seen any 3ds game look as good as a avg vita game. 3ds despite having good games currently doesn't have a lot to offer either. both handhelds are losing to smart phones/tablets.

lets be honest i haven't seen any 3ds game look as good as a avg vita game. 3ds despite having good games currently doesn't have a lot to offer either. both handhelds are losing to smart phones/tablets.

aryanbrar

[QUOTE="aryanbrar"]

lets be honest i haven't seen any 3ds game look as good as a avg vita game. 3ds despite having good games currently doesn't have a lot to offer either. both handhelds are losing to smart phones/tablets.

Toxic-Seahorse

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"][QUOTE="aryanbrar"]

lets be honest i haven't seen any 3ds game look as good as a avg vita game. 3ds despite having good games currently doesn't have a lot to offer either. both handhelds are losing to smart phones/tablets.

j2zon2591

[QUOTE="Malta_1980"]

[QUOTE="Kaisfate"] "lots" of good games..... being.....? the vita currently has about 5 or so games worth buying and playing, with soul sacrifice and sly coming out soon, and pretty much the only games of note in 2013 since killzone has no release date. that makes about 7-8 good games. hardly "lots" the vita is an amazing device, but currently (and for the foreseeable future) i see no reason at all for anyone to buy one. that is purely sony's fault too, because if they would just show some support and announce some games, it would be an easy recommendation. a Monster hunter 4 port, and an RE Revelations port would go a long way to saving the system.

Kaisfate

Well you see differently than others...

PSV doesnt offer hundreds of games but it does have great ones

Uncharted, LBP, Gravity Rush, Assassins Creed, Persona, PSABR, Wipeout, Unit13, Disgea, Fifa, SFxTekken, Mortal kombat, Blazblue, NFS, Rayman Origins, UMvC3 etc

Coming up there are also games like Killzone, Tearaway, DOA5+, Phantasy Star Online 2, Malicious, Guacamelee, NGS2+, Muramasa, Legend of Heroes, Ratchet & Clank, Soul Sacrifice, Warriors Lair, Sly and others... (Not bad imo)

you see only 5 games worth buying, others (incl myself) see more...

I dont know how much free time/money people have but is not like a system needs 8 great games to release per month in order to consider its library good..

Well said. This is exactly why the Vita is already lagging behind. Sony just doesnt seem to care about it. There are very few games out that arent just ports of console games, and there are few games even on the horizon. Im thinking that Sony is going to spend all E3 hyping the PS4 and not even mention the Vita this year. Sad really. I admit it is by far the best portable system technically, but with the way Sony is treating it I see zero reason to buy one because I dont even know how long it will be supported. Not to mention why should I have to pay 300$ just for the privilage of playing games I already have on PS3 on the go? Any system- portable or not- needs to have compelling exclusive games, not most of its library being re-releases of what already exists.