The new Sony Playstation Vita (NGP)
By nookumbumble
@nookumbumble (1)
Mexico
June 9, 2011 11:00pm CST
The PlayStation Vita, or simply the PS Vita or PSV (originally codenamed Next Generation Portable and abbreviated as NGP), is an upcoming handheld game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.It is the successor to the PlayStation Portable as part of the PlayStation family of gaming devices.
The device includes two analog sticks, a 5 inch OLED multi-touch capacitive touchscreen, 3G, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi support. Internally, the device features a 4 core ARM Cortex-A9 core processor and a 4 core SGX543MP4+ graphics processing unit as well as LiveArea as its main user interface, which succeeds the XrossMediaBar for the PlayStation Portable.
The device features full backwards compatibility with all PlayStation Portable games digitally released on the PlayStation Network, via PlayStation Store, the device's dual
analog sticks will be supported in only select games. The device will upscale and smooth the graphics of the PSP games via a software emulator for the device.
2 responses
@beingwell (3625)
• Thailand
10 Jun 11
Vita means Life, right? So gamers, get a life now, so to speak.
Kidding aside, I'm excited for Vita. I wonder how much it would cost.