The initial PlayStation Vita specs which suggested the console would feature 512MB of RAM appear to be off, to the tune of 100 percent. According to Novarama CEO Dani Sánchez-Crespo, the PSP successor has slimmed down to 256MB of RAM. When asked whether the move would hurt Novarama’s current Vita development, he said, “that won’t affect us.”
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Sony seems to be dripfeeding gamers with details about what we can expect from the PlayStation Vita and the latest cache of info to drop from the mothership relates to the handheld’s online and social features.
We’ve known since the PlayStation Vita was first announced that it would bring a web-connected staging area for each game, location features and a new chat features. Now we’re actually hearing about what we’ll actually have to play with. Read on for a quick run down of the latest on the PlayStation Vita’s online and social smarts…
A top bod at gaming goliath Activision doesn’t doubt the power of the PS Vita, but he’s not sure there’s a market for the handheld. And in the days of 99p iPhone games, we can see his point.
To see how this will impact on what games Activision makes, as well as what he thinks of the Nintendo Wii U, and Activision’s plans for games for tablets, read on.
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It looks like the PlayStation Vita won’t be nestled in the pile of presents beneath your Christmas tree. It seems US gamers who’ve ordered a PlayStation Vita from Amazon have been given a release date: December 31 2011.
If that date is final (and it is an “if”), that will mean the next generaton handheld won’t actually be held by most people until January. Sony would miss out on a huge sales opportunity for the PlayStation Vita and leave it open for the Nintendo 3DS to seduce Chrismas shoppers craving a gaming gadget.
Out TBC | £TBC | Sony (via Destructoid)
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Sony plans to make a profit from the PlayStation Vita…eventually. The combination of packing in so much power into such a small package and keeping the price pushed down means that once again the console maker is taking a hit on every device it sells.
Just like the PS3 before it, the PlayStation Vita will cost more for Sony to produce than it makes back in hardware sales. Sony Computer Entertainment CEO, Kaz Hirai, confirmed the situation in an interview with Reuters Japan. He says Sony hopes to start turning a profit from the PlayStation Vita within three years.
Sony isn’t alone. Microsoft made a loss on the Xbox 360 for years. Nintendo tends to be the only console maker that does make a profit straight out of the gate so Sony’s new loss maker is essentially business as usual.
Out 2012 | £TBC | Sony (via Adriasang/Reuters Japan)
With E3 and WWDC ongoing, we’ve got all sorts of gaming and Apple news for you – all that and more besides is rounded up for you here in our lunchtime lowdown newsflash, so read on for the latest!