The PlayStation Vita is gone, but not forgotten, to Sony, as yet another update has been pushed out for the legacy system. According to initial tests, the firmware doesn't change much at all--it doesn't even patch the Vita's well known h-encore2 exploit, making this new firmware still hackable, though it does seem like the tool used to downgrade your PSV firmware, Modoru has been patched. A new update for the homebrew tool was released, however, bringing Modoru compatibility to 3.73. Since this firmware is still new, you're advised to stay on your current OFW and not update, but at this time, it appears as nothing major has been changed.

Main features in system software update version 3.73

• This system software update improves system performance.

Source

 

[Kubas_inko]

This console is still relevant!

 

[MiiJack]

Waiting for a PS3 update

 

[hamohamo]

honestly i'd die right now if that let me know what is the point of this update and the last couple.

 

[GilgameshArcher]

Stability >>>>> Performance

 

[ParzivalWolfram]

Someone run the browser through html5test before and after, I suspect they may have updated it...

 

[Deleted User]

unpaid intern makes an update for the vita

 

[Nobody_Important4u]

what's the point of all of this?

 

[DANTENDO]

what's the point of all of this?

Because thousands of people still use the vita and Sony like to look after ther users

 

[codezer0]

Every time I'm entertaining the idea of getting a Vita so that i could play its iteration of katamari, I'm reminded of several failures about the handheld, such as:

• No games since 2014
• They want $80+ for a 32gig proprietary storage when i just picked up a 128gb full sd card for $30 locally
• How many busted psp systems i went through because sony is sub chinese in terms of hardware reliability

And i realize how dumb it is to buy a handheld for a single game. Because nothing else appeals to me anywhere near enough. Everything else would be homebrew and psp stuff.

 

[kublai]

PSVita is the nextgen PS5

 

[DarthDub]

Every time I'm entertaining the idea of getting a Vita so that i could play its iteration of katamari, I'm reminded of several failures about the handheld, such as:

• No games since 2014
• They want $80+ for a 32gig proprietary storage when i just picked up a 128gb full sd card for $30 locally
• How many busted psp systems i went through because sony is sub chinese in terms of hardware reliability

And i realize how dumb it is to buy a handheld for a single game. Because nothing else appeals to me anywhere near enough. Everything else would be homebrew and psp stuff.

Should probably do it now instead of later since you can downgrade on the latest firmware.
Edit: You can also use it for Remote Play from a PS4.

 

[codezer0]

Should probably do it now instead of later since you can downgrade on the latest firmware.
Edit: You can also use it for Remote Play from a PS4.

Would be easier to go through with it if I could find a copy of Katamari... but as it is, i haven't even seen that available when it was new, let alone now.

 

[Silent_Gunner]

Hundreds of games hav come out in the last couple of years on the vita and games are still being made today go look at the psn store you obviously need to do some research

*laughs in Japan-only ports/new games and indies being released on better handhelds*

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Every time I'm entertaining the idea of getting a Vita so that i could play its iteration of katamari, I'm reminded of several failures about the handheld, such as:

• No games since 2014
• They want $80+ for a 32gig proprietary storage when i just picked up a 128gb full sd card for $30 locally
• How many busted psp systems i went through because sony is sub chinese in terms of hardware reliability

And i realize how dumb it is to buy a handheld for a single game. Because nothing else appeals to me anywhere near enough. Everything else would be homebrew and psp stuff.

This, except replace Katamari with Persona 4 Golden, which really should have released on the PS3 in addition to the Vita version being available. Hell, it could have been one of those "buy it on PS3 via PSN, play it on both your PS3 and Vita" games like I think initial release of Blazblue: Chronophantasma (the third one for those who are chronologically confused) and maybe it's EXTEND edition were? Or am I remembering how that feature worked incorrectly? Because I know there was a small list of games that were playable on both the Vita and the PS3 if you had them in your library or something like that!

 

[digipimp75]

The Vita is Sony's greatest middle finger to their customers

 

[smf]

through because sony is sub chinese in terms of hardware reliability
And i realize how dumb it is to buy a handheld for a single game. Because nothing else appeals to me anywhere near enough. Everything else would be homebrew and psp stuff.

I bought vita for one game, I got two games out of the ps4.

 

[DANTENDO]

The Vita is Sony's greatest middle finger to their customers

No mate no company makes a machine designed to fail show some respect to Sony- thers still a nice catalogue out ther for those never had one

 

[codezer0]

No mate no company makes a machine designed to fail show some respect to Sony- thers still a nice catalogue out ther for those never had one

Coca Cola literally made a crap tasting Tab in clear to sabotage the original run of Crystal Pepsi in the 1990s. So the precedent for such a thing has existed.

 

[lincruste]

Hundreds of games hav come out in the last couple of years on the vita and games are still being made today go look at the psn store you obviously need to do some research

You obviously don't know shit
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-09-11-sony-insists-vita-isnt-going-anywhere

 

[DANTENDO]

You obviously don't know shit
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-09-11-sony-insists-vita-isnt-going-anywhere

You obviously can't count - ther mayb not many triple AAA titles but Yr forgetting one thing it's a handheld basically an indie machine - so stop moaning and go play the hundreds of smaller games you've prob not heard of as you couldn't be arsed to look

 

[Waygeek]

lmao Sony give it up and focus on PS5 eh.

At this point, I'm convinced that Sony is actually making some money from the online store for them to keep pushing out firmware updates otherwise they would've left the Vita alone.

Japan.