The Vita wins!  A while back I said:

Frankly, $200′s about my maximum price point for a handheld gaming system.  True, there are some deals out now that come close to $200 for the base wifi model (some retailers are offering a gift card with purchase), but there’s also the memory card issue – for 32 GB, you’ll get soaked for about $80 – about five times the price of a comparable MicroSD.  (A MicroSD can go into a PSP with an adapter that only costs a few dollars…)  Were the Vita more compelling in other areas, I might overlook the price, but …

Enter Amazon’s Gold Box Black Friday deal.  White Wi-Fi PS Vita, Assassin’s Creed pack-in, PS All Stars download, couple months of PS+, and a (tiny) 4GB memory card – for $180.  So I bought one.

I’m still not too thrilled with the Vita’s game selection or Sony’s insistence on making it difficult to use the Vita as a player for my media files.***  Still, the price was good, and I can at least play some of my PSP games and PS1 classics on the Vita’s larger screen and dual sticks.

Your move, Nintendo.

***About the only current Vita titles I”m interested in are Persona 4: Golden and Ragnarok Odyssey, and this Linux user doesn’t even have a Windows machine around to run Sony’s “content manager” – so my PSPs will; still be my go-to portable game/media systems.