I purposely did not view a Vita in person, until i got home with my Wifi Vita this afternoon, it was AMAZING! :D

The Vita looks slick from every angle, the audio crystal clear, the screen razor sharp with an impeccable bezel, the face buttons and D-pad have that perfect amount of click to them when pressed, the shoulder buttons have a nice trigger feel to them when pressed, and the Analog sticks are the best of any handheld device to date.

There are some quirks to the system, like the lack of ability to use buttons to navigate menus, hide icons, make folders for icons, medium battery life, and ergonomics to using touch controls with regular controls (I imagine the first few can be fixed via firmware, and the latter two via a power grip accessory).

But as far as actually playing games on the system; it is a dream, and I never want to wake up! :P

@TGM Yeah, too rich for my blood. I don't get much often but enough to buy the latest and greatest games on a system. I bought my 3DS a week after it launched with no games(got Street Fighter a week after that and so on), but I still had fun with it by playing some DS games and trying out the new features.

Anybody played the free AR games yet?

Why cant the Vita tell me I receive messages while ingame?

The whole Vita and PSN isnt that great, while im on ps3 I like to see what my friends are playing and answer messages, to do that on the vita I have to launch 2 separate slow loading apps its really annoying... can someone please tell me im doing it wrong.

I bought the 8gb card since it seemed the most efficient in terms of $/gb. I plan on swapping games in and out rather than just buying more 8gb cards (or the bigger one if they ever become more cost effective).

My impressions are pretty decent.  About the same as the 3DS maybe a touch less depending on what you're doing.  generally speaking, I can easily charge it overnight and it works just fine for me all day, though I don't play more than 6-8 hours, and I do a lot of shit in between.  It goes into sleep mode pretty quickly (like a minute of being idle) to save power, but I'd say it gets about 6-8 hours on average.  I've had mine on and off all day, sometimes for as much as an hour at a time, maybe 5 hours total today...and it's still at 40% battery.  

Not as good as PSP/DS, about the same as 3DS. 

That is good to hear, I am pleased with the 3DS battery life so if the vita is close then I will be happy.

Do you have it set so you recieve notifications? I believe the PS light will turn blue, or you can set it  to notify you with like a pop-up. I was talking to my PS3 friends from my Vita earlier.

That's why SCE made those transfer utilities, not that they don't want to sell as many memory cards as possible, especially considering they own the entire PSV chip market until 3rd parties release theirs.

I've already bumped the ceiling on the 8GB card that came with the 3G between demos, one full game and a couple PSP games. A 16GB card would be a better fit for anyone keeping multiple games installed with space for demos as they come out and the 32GB cards are ideal while offering the lowest cost per GB if you can get swallow paying $100 for a memory card. 

I already did the multiple memory card thing with the PSP and while it seems a bit unbelievable that one wouldn't want to be troubled to just swap out cards depending on which games you want to play (really no different than changing game chips), I generally left the same card in that had the best titles installed for this very reason. 

Isnt the blue light on all the time? how do you turn on the notificions I hate having to leave a game to check if my friends reply