Ugh, my bad - that deal had already ended - t'was a Black Friday thing and it was actually in pounds. The bundles that are now sold for $250 were sold for $200 during that time, I just got confused.

Except it's infinitely easier to develop games for the PSVita - it simply has more resources to offer, and that always equals less optimizing.

That, and "dismal" is debatable - Sony consoles are known to have high prices and slow beginnings until about half-way through their life-cycles - it was like that with the PS3, it was like it at the very beginning of the PS2's reign when it costed a gajizzilion of dollars and one soul and it's like that with the PSVita. I hear a lot of naysaying concerning the prices and the library and as a Vita owner, I just can't help but shake my head. In PS+ alone I got Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Gravity Rush, Mortal Kombat, Mutant Blobs, Chronovolt and some misc. titles, plus the ones every Vita owner gets for free anyways and I can't say that the console gathers dust - it's being constantly used and for the most part, the games are stellar. I'm willing to bet that if I were to own a 3DS, I'd already spend more money on games alone than I have with the PSVita so-far - it's good value when you think of it, and it only stacks up if you also have a PS3 on which you could claim games - clearly Sony's going for a brand loyalty scheme here and in my opinion, it's working.

You get what you pay for - it's a mirracle that the console isn't even more expensive given the fact that it has a GPU stronger than the 3rd Gen iPad's, it's one of the first mobile devices to use a quad-core ARM CPU, it has twice the RAM and half the VRAM of a PS3 and from a hardware point it eats the competition alive for breakfast. That, and we can't forget that at the end of the day, gaming is a luxury pass time - it was never cheap.

Now that PS+ rolled in which allows you to "acquire" several games as long as you're a subscriber, and a 3-months subscription costing as little as a single game, it's the best of times to get the system. It's a shame that you missed out on the Black Friday deal (which was really stellar - AC:Liberation + PSABR + Memory Card = System ready to rock) as it was really a steal - from my calculations, the system itself costed about $130 in it (cost of the bundle minus costs of the games and the card) if you plan on getting one, but there's no point in crying over spilled milk - I'm sure you'll have plenty of occasions to try it, Sony gave it a 10-year life expectancy and knowing the company, they'll C.P.R it as long as it takes.

But alas, I digress... Let's head straight back to the topic.

This post has been edited by Foxi4, Sun, December 23rd, 2012 at 04:50