10 Reasons The PlayStation Vita Was An Overlooked Gem

10. Cross Platform Party Chat

Back before Discord was the essential way to chat to your friends while gaming, party chat on either the Xbox or the PlayStation was the way that you and your mates could all play individual games and still chat online. The only issue with this was that if you owned a PlayStation 3 and your buddy owned an Xbox 360, you were pretty much out of options if you wanted to chat while playing on different systems.

When Sony released the Vita back in 2011, they decided a good way to remedy this was to make it possible for you and your friends to have cross-party chat from your PlayStation 4 and your Vita.

At launch, this was a game-changer for handheld consoles. Before this you would have to have your home console on at the same time to be able to party chat, but no more! Now you could sit in an internet cafe and if you were on the Wifi, you could sit and people watch with your friends while they sat in the comfort of their own home.