Is it FINALLY time to get a Playstation Vita?

[Michael-5]

maverick40 said:

Michael-5 said:

I wouldn't. Yes you might get the system on a sale during Black Friday, but it's still a first gen Sony system, and I've never had a good experience with first gen systems which aren't Nintendo.

That and games like Gravity Rush and Uncharted are still $40-$50 new, plus their really isn't much more then a handful of games.

Wait until the first redesign comes out, it will be thinner (like the PSP redesign was 1000 -> 2000), have a better battery, and by then there will be more games. You could also pick up Gravity Rush and Uncharted for less then.

That is funny because I have never had trouble with any of Sony's first gen systems and I have all the 1st gen systems. They are still working beautifully too.

PS1, PS2, PS3 - All first gen, all broken.

PSP, 3000 working fine. PS2 Slim working fine

X-Box 360 first gen broken

X-Box 360 HDMI (Fat) working fine.

NES, SNES, N64, GCN, GBA, GB, DS, all 1st gen all working fine. Also my non first gen GBC, GBP, GBA SP, and Wii are working fine too.

 

Sony is better then microsoft, but I still say avoid first gen Sony systems. If you haven't had to replace 1st gen Sony's consider yourself lucky because all of them had large scale defects. 1st and second gen PS1's had bad ball bearings which would fall out, 1st gen PS2's had bad lasers (because DVD's were so primitive and expensive) which on average would be replaced after 2-3 years (according to the repair guy), and PS3 had the YLoD. 1st gen PSP's had UMD disk reading issues, 1st gen 360's had the notorious RRoD, and I believe X-Box's had bad lasers too.

 

Nintendo is king for reliability, they don't produce systems at plants which can't garenteed a <2% fail rate (They are all made at Foxconn, but different plants pay employees differently and turn out different quality products).

I believe first gen PS3's had a 17% fail rate or something like that. Meaning that there was a 17% chance of it breaking before the warrenty period expired. 360 had a 33% fail rate, but judging from my experience with MS, I'm fairly confident that number was closer to 50% (They replaced my broken system with another broken system claiming it was working fine, and won't replace old systems with new ones, but with "functional/repaired" first gen systems).

 

Anyway, back to the OP - If you don't have a PSP already, get that instead. There is a mountain of good games available for it, it costs less then half the price of PSV, no worries about reliability, and so on. If Nintendo interests you, the 3DS XL is a steal.