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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.