Gadgetory

hey guys this is Austin this is a PlayStation Vita and against all odds it still exists in 2017 but why so let's take a look to see what you get if you buy one of these today now this is a Japanese model Vita however it doesn't really matter since they're all region free and plus you know it helps that Japan gets all the cool colors anyway so this is the newer 2000 model of the Vita and because of that it has a few different tweaks including a giant power cable it also comes with a micro USB cable as the original Vida came with this weird proprietary Sony charger whereas this guy should work with a to say anything what I really want to see though is the Vita itself and that is orange Wow that's when they say neon orange they heard not kitty so in United States they pretty much only sold the Vita in black I know there were some white special editions but the orange actually looks pretty cool I have to admit for a console that came out in 2012 the Vita actually has some pretty cool features and one of the biggest ones was the 5 inch touchscreen which definitely was a huge upgrade over something like the 3d X from the time it also had a revolutionary feature of dual analog sticks that might not sound impressive today but compared to its predecessor the PSP which only had a single analog stick this brought the Vita much more in line with what you would expect out of a portable playstation flip it over to the back and you'll find a secondary touchpad so this is very similar to what you would find on the PlayStation 4 Dual Shock so some games would actually allow you to Nelly touch from the front but also touch from the back it was actually a really cool idea back in the day so we are up running with the Vita and the first thing that jumps out to me is the interface it actually is aged pretty well so it kind of looks like a smartphone that you can scroll through different pages so I go over to get your multitasking I just swipe it away if you don't want anymore it's actually a pretty slick way of doing things you've got basically everything you would expect to see here so not only is the web browser and the PlayStation Store but you can also do things like activate camera and while the cameras are maybe not the most amazing thing in the world they're kind of usable this might not seem like the best front-facing camera in the world but it's useful for more than just a quick selfie so the PlayStation Vita supported AR games and it was kind of ahead of its time in a lot of ways so sure today things like Pokemon go or completely standard but back then and having something like that that could run on a portable like the PS Vita was kind of cool inside the Vita actually had pretty decent specs for today so it has a quad core arm a 9 processor 512 megabytes of memory and a 5-inch display with a resolution of 960 by 540 for the only downside was that the screen was actually has slight downgrade from the original vida model which came with an OLED display compared to IPS on the newer 2000 models there are other advantages such as a smaller comes more colors has that micro USB port but as far as pure screen quality goes the original model is actually better compared to the 3ds though the Vita had a huge technical advantage not only was it much much faster but had a far better screen and even though it was the better console in a lot of ways it did not sell anywhere near as well with the Vita topping out around 15 million sales whereas the 3ds has sold over 65 million units and Counting though there were a lot of reasons for this one of the big ones being of course that the game library was much stronger on the 3ds we'll talk a lot more about that in a second but Sony also made some very questionable decisions with the Vita one of the biggest problems with the Vita was the pricing on a memory you are forced to buy proprietary PS Vita memory cards which were really expensive we're talking well over $100 for a 64 gigabyte card but the biggest problem with the PS Vita today is simply the fact that smartphone success in a world well basically everyone has one of these in their pockets having a dedicated game console to carry around just doesn't make as much sense as it used to make sure they're definitely a lot of games on the Vita that are higher quality than what you can find on Android or iOS but the fact remains that there are a lot of very good very easy play games on a device that you're already carrying it really does make something like this a much harder sell the Vita is in a weird spot in 2017 so it's technically not dead you can still buy these brand new today however Sony support for it has definitely been dwindling as things like PlayStation now are currently in the middle of being phased out however the important part with any game console are the e the Vita was by far the biggest success in Japan but there were a fair few games were released here in the West such as tearaway however odds are if you're playing a Vita in 2017 you're going to be playing some of these and if your name is Kimberly doe you're definitely playing this one if you're not why pool and though there are other games such as tearaway I think this is one of the best examples of a game that really does a good job of taking advantage of both the rear touchpad as well as the touchscreen how's this really cool so the ability to actually use that touchpad in a way that's not just gimmicky right this does a great job of showing off the potential of the Vita but unless you are really hard for about the games that are available for it it just doesn't make sense I think the switch has shown that there's still plenty of interest in a portable console then in 2017 the Vita is definitely a hard sell but what do you guys think let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one