Never had a Vita, but my cracked PSP was better than the official models, because UMD was a fucking disaster of a storage medium. Games ran so much better off the flash drives, and you could get in and out of games properly, like was expected of mobile games. Trying to pitch the PSP as a media player was probably a mistake, at least with regards to UMD. It had a good MP3 player, but again, worked better with flash memory.