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MentalAlliance on 19 May 2013
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ils411 said:
MentalAlliance said:

The sale ends on June 2nd I believe so before E3. If the PSP games I mentioned were on the PSN Store I'd obviously go for the Vita (and again, especially if Tales of Innocence R and Tales of Hearts R were released in North America), but as it stands I have to have that tough "on the fence" feeling. I definitely won't be buying both though because regardless of which one I buy I'll be paying a fair bit extra for games, PSN cards, and memory cards.

A PSP is way cheaper than a Vita, but if you intend to go digital with the PSP then you're out of luck for Kingdom Hearts and Crisis Core since both are also not available on the PSP PSN store. But if you can get it on UMD for cheaps then that would be cool!

Personaly, I'd go with a PSVita. Even though I'd love to play those two games two and STar Ocean 2 (Best SO game by the way), there are still a lot of good JRPGs on the Vita store such as Crimson Gem Saga, Persona 1-3, Disgaea, Legend of Heros: trials in the sky (or something, been meaning to get this but my money keeps on going to newer Vita games..but one of these days...). Though the PSP can play PSP and PSOne games, with the Vita you can play plenty of PSP games, PSOne games, PSN games and the entire Vita library which is Awesome! (Persona 4: Golden, Gravity Rush, Disgaea 3, Ragnarok Odyssey, Senran Kagura Shinvi VS..yeah..I went there lol!, Earth Defense Force, Atelier Totori...I'll get this eventually! Mark my words!!! and Soul Sacrifice which is a good game but there seems to be something lacking...)

Also, if you're looking for JRPGs, Ys something something has been confirmed to be geting a western release, as well as valhala knights 3 aaaannndddd....yeah...thats about it.

If you have the money to burn, and I mean lots of greens coz 4Gb just wont cut it if you plan to go digital, you'll need to buy a 16Gb minimum, then money for games and stuff....yeah... If you have the money then go for the Vita. If extra cash is an issue, then you cant go wrong with a PSP (especially with you know...um...yeah....ahahaha never mind )

Yeah, all the reasons you mentioned for a Vita are why I'm considering it. Having the Personas and Trials in the Sky on the Vita along with a collection of Vita games and PSOne Classics would be awesome, but as you mentioned there aren't a whole lot of JRPG's on the horizon unless Tales of Innocence R and Tales of Hearts R were to get localized, but that's not sounding likely. Also Mind=0 looks cool, but has yet to be announced for NA. As for memory cards, I was thinking of putting up with a 4GB for now, and then hope that a price cut on memory cards is announced at E3 at which point I'd likely get a 32GB card. Though, I wonder if Sony might announce a price cut on the Vita itself to $199.99 and new bundles at that price point where you get larger than 4GB memory cards. If that were the case then I'd just wait until E3 I guess. Decisions, decisions.