If anyone is interested here's my take.
Played on a vita for a few hours a last month, played mod nations, augmented fighter game, uncharted and a game like cod, ghost recon plus a golf game.
The unit itself is nice, screen is big and gorgeous, probably too big to be fully portable, like an iPad really in that sense.
Some nice innovation, including touch screen, the pad on the back, augmented reality etc meaning it has a lot of potential.
It's billed as a ps3 in your hands but it really isn't, just like when the psp launched it was billed as a ps2 in your hands but it fell short, however the vita feels like it has the potential to get there or near enough. One let down is the screen is so crisp it shows up jaggys in their full unglory, making games very blocky considering their detail.
One other thing is that it is slow loading, games were on a Mem card don't know if the vita game carts are any faster.
Ui is really good, very impressed.
Overall it's an expensive bit of kit, but hopefully lessons are learned and it has a future, but currently I wouldn't pay anything above £150 for it, if it really was a ps3 in your hand aye, but right now it's not good enough for £230 min plus games.
7.5/10