PS Vita ownership in the time of PlayStation 5

I'm lucky enough to own a PS5, but way more lucky to be one of the early movers to VitaIsland and the friendliest club in gaming. The PS5 might be cutting edge, but turn it on and the first thing is still a BIOS beep, highlighting its PC-in-a-silly-box roots. The PS5 has about eight games for it, my Vita has hundreds that launch faster and are just as fun! 

Long time Vita owners are well aware that Sony totally severed the Vita from all PlayStation 5 features. That's even though the PS5 is, in OS terms, a modest step up from the PS4, with which Vita had a close relationship. However, a steady trickle of people are still picking up a Vita for retro gaming or collecting, so might not know this, with issues including:

• No Remote Play support
• No Vita games on the web store (now PS5/PS4 only)
• No sign of Vita trophies on the PS5
• No sign of PS5 trophies on the Vita's trophy app 
• No Cross Buy, as far as I can tell
• The gradual vanishing of titles from the Vita store, some for publisher reasons, some down to the ravages of time. 

Perhaps the key area of impact is that Sony, in Europe at least, still won't add new games to the Vita store's latest release list. There are also missing icons, its hard to find out what is on sale, if anything, and of course the main tabs on the store remain years out of date. 

On the plus side, the store still works for now, and there's no reason for Sony to close it in the immediate future. So, when that drip-drip of new releases does dry up, folks can at least continue to pick up games, before they get bored and jailbreak their Vita for the far more lively homebrew scene. 

So, if you've got a Vita recently, don't expect it to work in anyway with the PS5, but there's hope that homebrewers will add support for the DualSense controller, and perhaps even some unofficial Remote Play in the near future. 

Sure, there are those that say we should all move on, but the Vita remains a piece of portable design perfection and if owners have close to a decades worth of games for it, why on earth would we give that up?