>>7552243>>7552302Yeah, I feel there's this level of intimacy from having a physical v-pet in your hand that a phone application can't replicate. With the v-pet, it's purely dedicated to you interacting with this little pet that needs you, whereas a phone app is just one of many loaded on your phone and can be deleted by the swipe of a finger if you get bored of it.
And yeah, aesthetically, they're just really neat. Sometimes it's hard for me not to buy multiples of a single version because of how many nice designs they come in.