The Vita , which is ancient now , had the power to run PS 3 games but failed to do so due to lack of cooling etc based on its pocket sizeIt didn ' t though ? It also had a 960 x 544 screen so it would ' ve been rendering resolutions considerably lower too , if we ' re talking about running games at a lower res and far lower settings well yeah . but drop it down enough and you could get crysis on the vita probably , with that crisp 320 x 240 res . and should be at least as powerful as current non pro consoles . lol The project was canned due to Sony going with a smaller form factor which meant no active cooling which resulted is less potential power because of overheating issues . It was canned because it wasn ' t efficient enough to run it ? So it wasn ' t good enough to run PS 3 games .