Exactly. The only thing they've been doing is releasing "stability updates" for firmware here lately which really just blocks exploits that allows for eCFW. They really just need to let the hackers hack the thing already so they can at least raise its sales enough to not make it look so pathetic.
They made the thing so fucking powerful that it costs a lot to produce if ircc. They were so dead set on making a really powerful handheld but it literally has nothing over the 3DS besides being a mobile PSN console. They didn't plan this out at all and it's basically their attempt at shouting Me Too! While Nintendo just laughs at them.
I can't remember where it said this, but they were also trying to provide a console experience for handheld not realizing people don't want to spend a great sum of money for a portable game. Porting PS3 games to the Vita would also be rather expensive I would imagine.
Some of the older firmwares are very easy and don't even require any of the battery shenanigans or etc the PSP required. Not sure about the newer ones, but there's a sweetspot around 3.51 iirc that only requires copying some files to the memcard.
Wait so are you telling me I can buy a $200 piece of hardware and hack it into a used $30 outdated handheld?
Well kinda. The bigger and all around better screen does make PSP games and emulators look better. The Vita's PSP emulator runs better than a original PSP and the Vita's analog stick beats the PSP's nub anyday. There's no USB connection between the unit and the Vita, you have to use FTP to get everything from your PC onto the Vita after injecting a save file onto the Vita.
The only thing I know and I guess far more knowledgeable people on this knows is it's going to have an antenna of some kind.
