I Would Totally Buy A PS Vita 2

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I should probably ‘fess up from the get go: I have never owned a PS Vita. Nor have I owned a PSP or any of Sony’s other gaming portables. But I have admired them from both afar and close-up; looking at their sleek, polished designs in display cases like treasured objects that they were and continue to be. Something about them sparked my imagination, but since money was limited when I was younger I only thought of the little Sony consoles as unobtainable luxuries, beyond my reach, and superfluous since I already had a PS3.

But here’s the thing. I love to travel and I like to be on the road whenever I can. But whenever I do, I inevitably start to develop a deep yearning for my console. Right now, this happens to be the PS5. I haven’t ever been able to fully reconcile my twin loves of travel and video games.

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You may cite the Nintendo Switch as the perfect solution to my quandary, but I’m afraid it isn’t. I haven’t owned a Nintendo console since the SNES, and there is a reason why I have been invested in PlayStations since the first one. I prefer the more cinematic and mature action and adventure titles that appear on Sony’s consoles. Besides that, have you seen how much Nintendo games cost?

My iPad Mini has been quite the companion on my travels. I play the likes of COD Mobile, Sky: Children of the Light, Alien: Isolation, and Gibbon: Beyond the Trees on it. But I’m sorry, there’s nothing like having a dedicated games machine, devoted to its purpose, and complete with superior ergonomics and controls. The inputs are important. So are the games, and I want the games I play to be triple-A and action orientated.

This was the promise of the PSP and PS Vita. They offered