Well, I'm a little late to the party here, but here is my Christmas haul.
My wife got me a PlayStation TV. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it's a microconsole that lets you play select Vita and PSP games on your TV instead of a handheld device. They were going for 80 bucks, less than half of what the Vita does, so my wife got me one, with the game that I really wanted a Vita or PSTV for: Tales of Hearts R.
It's overall a nifty little device, with a serious caveat: It doesn't support a large chunk of the Vita's library. A lot of this is probably because of the games that use the back touch-pad and the motion-sensing stuff though there isn't much reason why this couldn't be simulated with the touchpad and the gyros in the PS4 controller, which this device supports, but whatevs. It has the games I care about (mostly, I kind of wish they'd patch Ys: Memories of Celceta to work with this) are supported, and playable on my TV, and almost all recent Vita releases support it.
It also plays most downloadable PSP games and PS1 classics, although, again, not all of these are officially supported, for reasons that must have made sense to somebody at Sony. One of these unsupported games, sadly, was my favorite PSP game, Valkyria Chronicles 2. EXCEPT... a quick search of Google located me a nice workaround: all you have to do is download these games onto your PS3, link them to your PSTV, and use the content manager to transfer them to the PSTV. Ta-da! You've successfully worked your way about one of those seemingly inexplicable situations where Sony seems to hate your money! But most of the good downloadable PSP games are supported, including the Personas, the Final Fantasies, Lunar, Ys, The Legend of Heroes, and whatnot.
Other Christmas loot I got was Shadow of Mordor for PS4, Dragon Age Inquisiton for PS4, and Shantae and the Pirates' Curse for Wii U. I also got a bunch of Bioshock 2 collectible toys.
Anyway, in the immortal and all-inclusive words of Krusty the Clown, have a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, a Kwazy Kwanzaa, a tip-top Tet, and a solemn, dignified Ramadan. :)
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