As the console sat on store shelves, Sony revisited its product strategy multiple times, leading to three variants of the PSVita being shipped throughout its lifecycle:
- The original PSVita (sometimes called the 'Fat' model) is the series debut.
- The Slim revision retains the same architecture, but exchanges the OLED screen for an LCD to reduce costs. Furthermore, it doesn't offer a 3G-capable variant anymore. It does, however, feature a bigger eMMC chip... only 52 MB larger! For some strange reason, that was enough to provide an internal 1 GB memory card. In any case, I'll explain more in the 'Games' section.
- The PlayStation TV is just a Fat motherboard adapted for the non-portable setting. It also exposes a different set of I/O.
As you can see, the information in this article will easily apply to all three models, although I will dedicate extra paragraphs to talk about the puzzling eMMC changes of the last two variants.