The PS Vita had a hard life, it was sort of hard to justify buying one if you lived outside of Japan. I remember seeing it when it was new and thinking that it looked cool. I went to the store to pick one up, looked at the selection of games that were available and just INSTANTLY put it back down. I didn't really give a fuck about that Uncharted game that was released for it and the selection of titles for the system around launch time were extremely lacking. Eventually I moved to Japan where the selection of games was much better and even better, my wife gifted me one for my birthday. But the Vita had another curse which was it's memory cards. You couldn't just use a normal micro SD card or anything like that, you had to buy a special PS Vita memory card and those bastards were NOT cheap. I got the smallest one and still had to shell out $60 or so for it. That's a pretty high barrier to entry.
Eventually the library of games got better and I built up a pretty enjoyable library of titles, most of which are Japanese exclusive unfortunately for the Western audience but the memory cards never got any cheaper and it could just never build the same kind of hype that it's competitor, the 3DS, was creating.
If you could read Japanese then the amount of surprisingly good JRPGs and dungeon crawling titles was kind of staggering. Due to this, the Hatsune Miku Project Diva games and the fact that it's region free, my Vita has seen WAY more use than my 3DS. I've not played my 3DS since Bravely Default came out but I'm still using my Vita about once a week.
So let's take a moment for our fallen hero, the Vita, the little console that good. Hopefully some kind of effort will be made to emulate it so that a bunch of fan translations can be released and people can enjoy the great library of games that never made it across the pond.
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