Dammit Sony, you just had to improve upon it and then you went and fucked it up with the Vita :/
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How? UMD was shit, vitas display was a huge upgrade. The analogue sticks were better... I gifted my son the Vita last year and it still holds up. Couldn't do that with my PSP cause it's broken.
The UMD, was decent enough, it was optical after all. The problem was they took it away for a gimmicky rear touchpad and in turn locked out all backwards compatibility with PSP games. Which in turn, led to its ultimate downfall because it didn't have the big backfill of a library when it REALLY needed it to head off the rising smartphone competition (Vita released in 2012)
Display and sticks were better yea, but nothing groundbreaking that couldn't have been included on a 4th gen PSP iteration.
Also the UI was shit, they replaced the nice XMR/CBR (Whatever it was called) with those stupid bubbles.
A umd drive in a vita would've been ridiculous.
Any digital purchases made on the psp store were honoured on the vita and you didn't face to but them again.
Even so, nowadays it's just straight up the better option with adrenaline being able to play every PSP game natively, not emulated. The vitas resolution is also a straight 2x scale so the scaling is perfect and allows for an LCD grid shader if you want it to look even more like a PSP.
I tried playing my PSP again a few days ago but that display has deteriorated soooo much. The constant motion blur like qualities is insane. It was already bad when new but it's almost unplayable now and you'd be hard pressed to find a PSP anywhere near what it looked like on release now I imagine.