Sony PSVITA presentation!
The PlayStation Vita (プレイステーション・ヴィータ Pureisutēshon Vīta, officially abbreviated PS Vita) is a handheld game console by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to the PlayStation Portable as part of the PlayStation brand of gaming devices. It was released in Japan and parts of Asia on December 17, 2011 and is expected to be released in Europe, Australia, and Latin and North America on February 22, 2012.
The handheld includes two analog sticks, a 5-inch (130 mm) OLED multi-touch capacitive touchscreen, and supports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and optional 3G. Internally, the Vita features a 4 core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor and a 4 core SGX543MP4+ graphics processing unit, as well as LiveArea software as its main user interface, which succeeds the XrossMediaBar.
The device is fully backwards-compatible with PlayStation Portable games digitally released on the PlayStation Network via the PlayStation Store.However, PS One Classics and TurboGrafx-16 titles were not compatible at the time of the primary public release in Japan.
The Vita's dual analog sticks will be supported on selected PSP games.
The graphics for PSP releases will be up-scaled, with a smoothing filter
to reduce pixelation.
Hardware
The device features a "super oval"-shape similar to the design of the original PlayStation Portable, with a 5-inch (130 mm) OLED capacitive touchscreen in the center of the device. The device features two analog sticks (unlike the PSP which features only a single analog "nub"), a D-pad, a set of standard PlayStation face buttons (
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two shoulder buttons (L and R), a PlayStation button and Start and
Select buttons. Internally, the device features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor (3 of the 4 cores will be usable for applications)and a quad-core GPU SGX543MP4+. The device also features a rear touch pad, two cameras (a front and a rear), stereo speakers, microphone, Sixaxis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), three-axis electronic compass, built-in GPS (only for the 3G version) as well as Wi-Fi, 3G, and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR connectivity.The two cameras feature the abilities of face detection, head
detection, and head tracking. It also allows for customization and
personalization. The PlayStation Vita will have 512 MB of system RAM and 128 MB of VRAM.The amount of RAM allows cross-game chat to be used on the system (in
contrast to the PlayStation 3, which has 256 MB dedicated to system RAM
and 256 MB dedicated to VRAM).
, 
, 
and 
),
two shoulder buttons (L and R), a PlayStation button and Start and
Select buttons. Internally, the device features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor (3 of the 4 cores will be usable for applications)and a quad-core GPU SGX543MP4+. The device also features a rear touch pad, two cameras (a front and a rear), stereo speakers, microphone, Sixaxis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), three-axis electronic compass, built-in GPS (only for the 3G version) as well as Wi-Fi, 3G, and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR connectivity.The two cameras feature the abilities of face detection, head
detection, and head tracking. It also allows for customization and
personalization. The PlayStation Vita will have 512 MB of system RAM and 128 MB of VRAM.The amount of RAM allows cross-game chat to be used on the system (in
contrast to the PlayStation 3, which has 256 MB dedicated to system RAM
and 256 MB dedicated to VRAM).
The PlayStation Vita will be released as two different versions: one with 3G support, and a cheaper version without 3G support.The 3G service will be partnered with AT&T in the US and with Vodafone in Europe.
Unlike the PSP (2000 and 3000), the PlayStation Vita will not support video output or contain a removable battery.Sony also confirmed during TGS 2011 that the battery would last 3–5
hours of gameplay (no network, no sound, default brightness level), 5
hours of video, and up to 9 hours of music listening with the screen
off.An external battery option was announced in an interview by SCEA Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida. PS Vita is equipped with a storage media slot in addition to the PS Vita card slot, so that users can choose their memory capacity based on their use.
PlayStation Vita card
Software for the PlayStation Vita is distributed on a proprietary flash memory card called "PlayStation Vita card" rather than on Universal Media Discs (UMDs) used by the original PlayStation Portable.PSVita memory cards will be available in size from 4 GB to 32 GB. 5–10%
of the writeable space is reserved for data added by the user after
purchase, such as game save data and patches. The size and form factor of the card itself is very similar to the SD Card. Some media applications and games will require a proprietary PlayStation Vita card inserted to be used.
Layout
Launch
On December 17, 2011, the PlayStation Vita was launched in Japan with
325,000 units sold in the first few days after the launch but sales
dropped 78% in the 2nd week ending on December 25, 2011 to only 74,000
units sold.
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