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The Vita1000 OLEDs in general haven’t aged well, but the Vita2000 is still a strong option for mobile gaming. The handheld emulation machines aren’t made with the same build quality and the Steamdeck style consoles aren’t massive by comparison. The Switch Lite is another fine choice, but still much bigger than the PSPVita 2000.

I’m hoping strong sales of the PSPortal encourages development into a standalone mobile device, but I’m not hopeful it’ll replace my PSP3000/Vita2000 for daily driving.

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My vita oled still functions fine? I have non oled variants as well but I feel no reason to use them, they just exist as spares.

Have the OLEDs all started dying or something?

OLEDs degrade faster and stronger than CRT or LCD. OLEDs have three major sources of degradation. The percentage of Vitas will good OLED screens are significantly decreasing.

* Burn in. Everyone knows about this, not a huge issue on most Vitas.

* Use degradation. Using the OLED panel will slowly cause it to become more dim, and each color dims at a different rate. Blue dims 10% by 1k hours, and by 10k hours you can expect half total brightness. The Vita was released 10 years ago, and many of them have seen thousands of hours of gameplay by now.

* UV exposure. UV radiation is damaging to OLED displays, even when powered off. Long periods of small exposure, even if kept enclosed in storage, can damage the display. For Vita displays this is the major problem. Vitas that were rarely used outside/near windows, and were stored in dark places will have the least amount of UV damage. All of them should be noticeably more dim than their time of manufacture if it were possible to compare side by side.

Ah yeah, i'm aware of OLED issues. But my Vita OLED shows none of these, save for some diminished brightness perhaps. But I only play them indoors anyway and honestly at this point, i've exhausted most of the library worth playing exclusively on the vita, and I have better emulation machines.

The OLED vita side by side with the non OLED is still my preferred display. You are right though, if you want to rack up thousands of hours and add another decade onto the decade already past, the LCD unit is the better bet.

I have two OLED Vitas, a beat up one I used for 10 years and a gently used complete in box I imported from Japan. I prefer the LCD, and have for several years. However this is only a recent development (3-4 years) when I noticed the LCD at max brightness was significantly better in bright conditions than the OLED was. I've checked some of my friend's OLED Vitas too, and none of them are nearly as good as they were in the old days. The hue shift on some of the screens is pretty noticeable.

Looking back the old screen was awesome. Going forward I think the LCD Vitas will be a better pick.

My vita1000 is still as it was on release, I personally love the screen

screen is great, feels really high quality in general, but the proprietary charging port and lack of internal storage are huge negatives against it

Yeah, that’s fair

>>The Vita1000 OLEDs in general haven’t aged well

Really? That's an interesting opinion - I own both and vastly prefer the original Vita due to that OLED screen, it's just better in every way(the screen).

The slim fits in the hands better and charges via micro-USB.

The white Vita OLED was an excellent device

The 60 grams of weight and 3.5mm of depth are very noticeable on a handheld.

I dunno, I seem to recall the original Gameboy being this huge brick and that was entirely fine. Dunno where I put it, though... might've tossed it when I got my Gameboy Colour, which seems like the stupid kind of thing I would've done in my early teens.

not really an opinion, the mura effect is the ubiquitous and well-documented flaw of Vita 1000 OLEDs

You can’t have an opinion about whether a flaw bothers you?

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