Sony has officially announced the release of its PSP successor, the PlayStation Vita, formerly known as the NGP.
The new handheld will be released at the end of 2011, priced at a distinctly reasonable (for Americans at least) $249/€249/¥24980 for the standard wifi model and $299/€299/¥29980 for the 3G/wifi model, which requires the usual exploitative data plan.
The launch titles:
PS Vita’s launch lineup is a force to be reckoned with, featuring exciting and attractive new titles from SCE Worldwide Studios, including UNCHARTED: Golden Abyss, LittleBigPlanet, and Ruin (working title), which utilize PS Vita’s groundbreaking technology to make unprecedented immersive, interactive and social game play available on-the-go.
In addition, titles such as Little Deviants, Hot Shots Golf, Reality Fighter, Hustle Kings, ModNation Racers, Wipeout, Super Stardust Delta and a broad range of third-party game developers and publishers make use of PS Vita’s unique feature set.
The wildly optimistic trailers and preview footage:
Sony further promises new ways of having personal information stolen whilst being stalked in public, by way of its “LiveArea” system:
Further enhancing your entertainment experience are new PS Vita features, such as “LiveArea,” an interactive space for each PS Vita software title that allows you to access the latest game information through PlayStation Network; “near,” a pre-installed application that lets you see what other PS Vita users in the vicinity are playing; “Party,” which lets you voice chat or text chat while playing games or using the Internet browser; and “Welcome Park,” a tutorial application designed specifically to guide you through PS Vita’s new user interface.
The future of the 3DS suddenly looks distinctly troubled…
“…Look, the PS Vita is a very intriguing console. The back touch panel has shown to provide some unique experiences you cannot get on a Nintendo handheld, and it’s definitely peaking interest levels. In addition to that, it’s a fully DLC based system (making it cheaper to distribute games), and it’s graphic capabilities is “almost” on par with the present console generation. All that for the same price as a 3DS.
The 3DS has some nice graphics, but they look like the Wii compared the PS3 for comparison sake. The 3DS has 3D, but many gamers have expressed how unneeded it really is. Sure, I love Ocarina of Time 3D in 3D the entire time, but that doesn’t necessarily make the game better. 3DS’s big advantage is it has Nintendo, and Nintendo knows how to make games for that on the go gamer better than most people. Oh, and Pokemon. Yeah, people seem to like that game.”
Taken from Zelda Informer.
let’s hope that the PS Vita don’t have a region-lock.
Once there’s a way to pirate it I’ll might buy.
Just stop okay? I don’t really want to have to buy ANOTHER console just to play games. I’ll stick to the PSP. At least that has iDOLM@STER on it.
First NGP, now its ps vita. What happens to just plain old psp? just imagine when you go to buy this thing and how stupid you’ll sound. H h h hiiii i I im looking to buy a a a ps ps “vita”.