I gotta agree with Tonk on this one.
I will eventually get a Vita, but I am not that excited about it and I don’t foresee anything that is going to get me excited about it.
I don’t remember who said it, but for me the PSP and Vita are just providing watered-down console experiences. Yeah God of War, Resistance and Syphon Filter etc etc were cool on the PSP, but I could have lived w/o any of those games. I assume we are going to get Vita sequels of God of War, Resistance and Infamous - and I’m sure they will impress on a technical level, but I just can’t get excited for that stuff. The best games of the psp era were Locoroco, Patapon and Lumines….so maybe there’ll be some interesting updates to those games…but a portable version of UMVC3 – ugh, pass…
I probably play(ed) my ds 10x more than my psp. Yeah Nintendo has some rehashes of their console experiences too like Mario Kart 7, but even with those, they get so much right. I own every version of Mario Kart, yet 7 still feels awesome somehow. Even the downloadable games like Pushmo and Mighty Switch Force are pretty awesome. There is just some magic about Nintendo, they may not be the same they were years ago, but they know how to make fun games….especially when it comes to handhelds. Even Starfox 64 3D, which I played to death on the n64 still feels fresh and fun somehow.
I know I come off as a Nintendo fanboy, and that’s fine. Like I said, I will get a Vita eventually, but I feel pretty confident that I am going to get way more play time out of my 3ds…just like I got more out of my DS than my PSP.