I’ve been a PS Vita owner for well over a decade. In fact, it’s been almost 12 years since we launched this very website in December 2012. But I’ve been doing a lot of hard thinking recently and I’ve come to the very difficult decision regarding selling my PS Vita collection. But if I’m so passionate about the console, why take such drastic action?
Too Many Games?
If you’re a regular reader of the site, you’ll knoe I’ve been a gamer all my life. In fact, I’ve been playing and collecting systems of one type or another dating right back to the 1970s starting off with the early Pong clones. The problem with collecting is that it all takes up space. At one point I had around 50 different systems (or variants of them) and thousands of games for them all. My mancave is the small box bedroom in the house and even with bookcases covering all three walls of the room, with the remaining wall taken up with drawers, a desk and an arcade cabinet, space was non-existent.
That wasn’t counting the systems downstairs under the TV, boxed units stacked on top of the bookcases and so on. And truthfully I never really had the time to play half of them. With many of the systems they were also never used or there were games in the collection that were picked up cheaply or in budles that had never been played at all. Like so many collectors I was just hoarding them.
Time To Streamline
So over the last couple of years I’ve been trimming the collection down. For systems I have a real passion for – the Commodore 64, Amiga, and most in the PlayStation family – I took a closer look at what I owned and whether they were just there as “fillers” or as games I actually liked and wanted to play. If I didn’t want them, then off they went!
Then I took more drastic measures and looked at the console and computer collection that I’d built up over the years. There were a lot that I frankly hadn’t used for years. I owned a Sega Dreamcast that hadn’t been switched on for over a decade and a Sega Saturn that had been sitting in a drawer for about 5-6 six years. One the computing front, an Amstrad CPC464 that sat in a corner untouched, several ZX Spectrums left in their boxes and an Atari 800XL that – thanks to the sluggish loading times – had only been used twice since I got it 7 years ago. All of them found appreciative new homes giving me more room and much needed cash.
So Am I Really Selling My PS Vita Collection?
But now I’m finding myself in the same position with the Vita and looking at selling my PS Vita collection. Okay, that’s something of an exaggeration and I’m only looking at selling part of my games collection. The reality is that my PS Vita games collection is big. VERY big. If I count my physical and digital games collection, along with the digital PSP, PSOne, Minis and PlayStation Mobile titles, I have around 1,200 titles for the Vita! But if I am being truly honest with myself of those, I’ve probably only played half of them and out of those many for under and hour never to be loaded again!
Now while I can’t sell any of the digital collection (something the games industry needs to look at if they want to push for a digital only market) if I look at the physical collection there are a lot of games that have been sitting on the shelves unused for a long time. Some because I’ve played them and simply wasn’t impressed with them, and others because I’ve decided to stick with the digital copies and have left the physical copies sealed.
Then there are other instances where I have found that versions of the same game on the PS4/PS5 are simply more comfortable for me to play on the big screen and sadly they’re just not compatible with the PSTV. Then finally there are games that I own countless times and just don’t need multiple copies. Probably the worst offenders here are Rainbow Moon and Rainbow Skies. I have the digital versions of both for the PS Vita and PS4, the physical copies from Limited Run Games, and the special edition physical releases from Eastasiasoft!
Time For A Clearout
As a Vita collector, one thing I originally wanted to do was to get every physical release – or at least every English language game – for the Vita. But with games becoming increasingly scarce, especially those from Limited Run Games and Eastasiasoft, it’s simply not possible for me to ever get a full set. And with so many games in my collection already I doubt that I’d even play everything I own let alone manage to get through even more especially with the Cross Buy sales we’re continuing to see on the PlayStation Store.
So it’s with some reluctance that I’m cutting the collection down and parting with the games I don’t want anymore. It certainly doesn’t mean the end of my PS Vita journey – far from it. But I’d rather these games go to people who can enjoy them and get something from them than have them sitting on shelves on a bookcase never to be used (or opened) and possibly help other collectors fill in gaps in their collections instead.
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