The Sony Playstation Vita has many tasty tricks up its sleeve, including 3G connectivity for web browsing and, of course, multiplayer gaming at your nearest bus stop. Today, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that its officially partnered with Vodafone to provide such on-the-fly online gaming, with a cheeky added bonus to 3G PS Vita customers also on the cards. Read more
Can’t wait to lay your hands on Sony’s new PS Vita? Then brace yourself. The Big S has confirmed a UK release date and pricing, with both Wi-Fi and 3G models costing more than a PS3. With the iPhone surging ahead in the mobile gaming space, will the PS Vita have any chance of becoming a bestseller?
We’ve heard of throwing someone under the bus, but Lyle Hall and Matthew Seymour of Heavy Iron Studios have run the PlayStation Vita over with an 18 wheeler. The two believe the PS Vita is over priced and that consumers are no longer willing to pay out for a single-function gaming device. “If people aren’t willing to pay $249 for the Nintendo 3DS why would they pay $299 for the Vita”.
No, we’re not joking. The latest pre-order updates from Best Buy and Amazon suggest the Sony PlayStation Vita will not launch in the US and UK until the 30th of March 2012. That’s nearly three months after the December launch in Japan. Following the initial shock of the PS Vita delay, today’s update feels like Sony is rubbing salt in our wounds.
We’ve heard the Xbox 360 successor, likely the Xbox 720, will be announced at E3 next year. What won’t be announced is a portable Xbox 360 to rival the PS Vita. Unlike Sony, Microsoft has yet to crack the portable gaming market and because of this, remains set to deliver Xbox gaming on-the-go through its Windows Phone devices.
Portable gaming profits for next-gen devices are hard to come by. Sony is expected to sell the PS Vita for a loss during its first two years of availability; a similar position it faced with the PS3. Meanwhile Microsoft is enjoying the fruits of its labor with the Xbox 360, but like Sony it took a couple years to get out of the red and into the black.
The cat is out of the bag. The successor to the PlayStation Portable, NGP, is officially known as PlayStation Vita (PS Vita). With dual touch pads, analog sticks, a multi-touch 5-inch OLED screen, and dual cameras for an augmented reality experience — this is the future of portable gaming. Sony promises new ways to interact with your world, friends and entertainment, all powered by PS Vita.
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Uncertainty over the official name for Sony’s NGP looks to be settling. In the latest twist of events, evidence has surfaced in the HTML code on Sony’s E3 teaser page which explicitly mentions the PS Vita. We’ve heard the NGP referred to as the PS Vita once before, but this time it comes straight from Sony — the NGP is the PS Vita and here’s why.
