I bought my Vita, and a 32GB memory card, for a total of $260'ish. The unofficial price drops have been pretty great, if you go looking for them. $260 is still on the steep side, but I've been happy with it overall.
If you've already got a PS+ membership, the "free" games included have been insane.
GRIPES: The system UI is complete shit. As far as I can tell I can't uninstall downloaded games without deleting ALL files related to that game (game saves etc).
It is a little puzzling that they'd bother to remake the first Fable game. It was good, but by no means a classic by any stretch. In fact, it fell a country mile short of the lofty goals that it was supposed to meet (as dictated by the creators).
Granted, there is a good chance the recreated version will perhaps address a number of the original issues. Hopefully it is not a limited remake and they go above-and-beyond.
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