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What's the reason to prefer the PSP over the Vita? Yes, technically the Vita has Internet but outside of downloading games via that it really isn't a distraction because it's so clunky.

I recently freed mine and have been having a great time with everything it had to offer while being so much more portable than anything mainstream sold now as portable.

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Because the Vita was less popular everywhere outside of Japan, which makes that there are less units available and the units cost a few times the price of a psp second hand. (in The Netherlands the PSP is just under 100 Euro second hand, usually with 20+ game discs, a vita starts at 200 without any games and often without a charger)

A lot of people also still have a PSP just hanging around, less so with the vita.

For me the choice of PSP over Vita is just the hardware. The PSP-1000 and 1001 are special pieces of hardware, like the original PS1 or the Phat PS2. They're the iconic design that spawned several variants and a successor.

The Vita doesn't hold such a special place for me; it is superior hardware and arguably a superset of the PSP, but it's not the PSP. It also has 2x the display resolution, so PSP XMB and titles are pixel doubled, losing some of the crispness of the original display where each pixel was 1x1.

Anyway, the Vita is the better console except in the chassis design and historical impact IMO.

The PSP has Internet connectivity too, no?

It even got a WPA (AES even, but unfortunately only some unusual WPA1+AES mode at that) with a firmware update, so you didn’t necessarily need a second insecure SSID like you do for the DS (which is WEP only).

Vitas are way more expensive and hard to find

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