I've only spent about 6-7 hours with Duodecim and Prologus, but from what I played, they seemed very similar to the original. Even the addition of the world map did little to differentiate the new games from the old. Still good games that look amazing on the PSP, but too much like their predecessor.  Also, the more focussed approach to story (as per the original) worked better than the new world map, in my opinion.

Well worth a bash on account of the extra cast members, but I spent so much more time with the original.

Also, ZHP: Unlosing Ranger Vs Darkdeath Evilman IS the best named game ever!

^This

Fear not, Jarrod! I've read in the comments section of the PS Blog post that I linked (top of the page) and via Joystiq that Valkyria Chronicles 2 works just fine on the Vita:

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/09/here-are-the-psp-games-that-will-work-on-vita-at-launch/

It appears that the list is not definitive and will probably see some oft-demanded titles grace it soon.

Well hopefully that's the case because I've been wanting to check those out but I haven't had much of a desire to pick a PSP up knowing I would get a Vita.

Hopefully Sony continues to expand that list and just doesn't stop updating it like Microsoft did with Xbox support on the 360.

It's sad that many people failed to anticipate that UMDs were going away when the PSP Go was released. When the PSP Go came out, I saw the direction things were going and started buying all of my PSP games on digital download. I also watched the sales for games that I already had and caught them when they were cheap. At this point, I only own 4 UMDs that haven't yet been released on PSN. (Star Ocean 1/2, Valkyrie Profile, and an import, Princess Crown.)

As a bonus, I traded the UMDs in as I bought their replacement, so it ended up giving me a discount similar to their UMD transfer program in japan.

Another important point is that they never announced the UMD transfer program in the US. All of our news about that came from people translating Japaneses sources.

I also jumped on the PSPgo bandwagon; so UMDs didn't factor into greatly to my decision to go with the Vita. I can understand why you feel cheated, Dana. Then again, I had that feeling in 2009 when I upgraded (?) to the PSPgo.

I felt that way back in 2009 myself, that's actually why I didn't buy a PSP Go right away. I bought the games as if I had a PSP Go. When the Go dropped in price to $150, it became an excellent deal with all of the games I had already purchased that way.

I used to be concerned about this, then I realized that anything that I haven't finished ends up getting re-released and I buy it again on a new system anyway. I went through my collection of PS1 discs recently and found that my several dozen games had been reduced to about 5-6 discs that I don't already have on PSN, or another system. I gave all my redundant discs to my cousin.

The PS2 rebuying thing isn't great, but at the same time I understand why they did it. It allowed them to remove a very expensive processor/graphics chipset from their console to remove PS2 BC on newer, cheaper PS3 systems, and then by selling them on PSN, they can recompile them and tweak them for the Cell processor so that they don't need that PS2 to be built into the PS3 motherboard. This is similar to the way Xbox360 did its BC, by building a new executable and distributing it on their online network. I still have my PS2 to play my old PS2 games, as well as keeping my first generation PS3 in good shape. I have 2 systems to play my PS2 games on, and 2 systems to play my PS3 games on still.

If you've ever used a PS2 emulator for PC, you should know that it only works because it recompiles parts of the code for your desktop processor. Otherwise even a fast computer won't be able to handle direct emulation of the PS2. Even then, it doesn't work very well.

I don't know why people are concerned about PSN games going away. In 6 years, they haven't removed any software from my download list. I can still go back to things I bought at the release date of the PS3 and download it now.

It could be worse. Xbox360 completely eliminated an entire method of saving games, and all of the memory cards people bought for it instantly became bricks.

To answer in reverse order,

I don't necessarily think they'll be hosting my PS3 games in 30 years, but I think that in 30 years, my PS8 will have remastered versions of the same games for me to play, and I won't care that I don't have access to the 30 year old version. I do care that it's there in 5 more years, but after about 12 years from release I can tolerate buying it again for $6-10.

I think that part of the cost of the very inexpensive PS2 games is the effort that they put into certifying that the game worked perfectly on the new system. If you stick a random PS2 game into your non-BC PS3 and it crashes, stutters, and has graphical glitches, will you be happy with the product? PS2 emulators for the PC have all 3 of these problems, and chances are, the new PS2 emulator for the PS3 has these same problems. There's significant cost in doing all of this testing and tweaking, and I'm not going to begrudge them a pittance for their time. Personally, I want Atlas and NIS to know that I enjoy my Vanillaware games and want more of them.

I'm less interested in movies than games. I tend to rent movies and bluray discs and buy games, because a movie gives me maybe 2 hours of entertainment, while most games give me 30-60 hours.