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PlayStation Vita Price, Release Date and Specs Announced
June 6th, 2011
During tonight’s E3 press conference, Sony revealed more details of its forthcoming portable, formerly known as the Sony NGP (Next Generation Portable). Kaz Hirai brought out the latest PlayStation Portable, which is now officially named PlayStationVita or PS Vita (pronounced “vee-tah”, not “vy-tah”).
As we learned back in January, the PS Vita (NGP) will offer both front and rear touchpads, a high-res OLED Screen, SIXAXIS motion sensor technology, dual analog sticks, and both front and rear cameras – providing support for augmented reality gaming.
The Vita will come in both WiFi and 3G/WiFi models, and Sony also announced an exclusive partnership with AT&T as the 3G carrier for PS Vita (which brought along with it substantial groans from the audience). They also showed off a demo of Uncharted: Golden Abyss, running on the portable, and it not only looks damned impressive, it takes full advantage of the front and rear touch controls, along with the motion sensors and both thumbsticks.
Another nifty feature that was shown was the ability to start a game on your PS Vita, then resume it on your PS3, using cloud-based saves. Sony also announced a feature called “Cross-play” which will offer games which can be played between players on both PlayStation Vita and PS3 consoles. Also revealed was an awesome looking new PS Vita version of Little Big Planet, which takes full advantage of the handheld’s unique control capabilities, as well as a cool touch-based level editor. This could be one of the Vita’s killer apps, IMHO.
There are more than 80 titles in development, with titles mentioned during the presentation including Street Fighter X Tekken, Wipeout, and ModNation Racers, among others.
The Sony PlayStation Vita will be available in time for the 2011 holiday season, and will sell for $249 (USD) / €249 (EUR)/ ¥24,980 (JPY), with the 3G/WiFi model selling for $299 (USD) / €299 (EUR) / ¥29,980 (JPY). No word yet on an AT&T subsidy, or costs for a 3G data plan. Both models can be pre-ordered now over at Amazon.
There’s no question that the hardware in the PlayStation Vita looks impressive. The real question is whether or not handheld gaming systems can compete with smartphones and tablets now that they’re so pervasive. Personally, I bought a Nintendo 3DS, and it’s frequently gathering dust in favor of playing games on my iPad 2. That said, the PS Vita’s hardware and control capabilities are arguably more advanced than the iPad, and the inclusion of tactile controllers might be enough to convince me to buy one anyhow. Now if only Sony could keep their PlayStation Network alive and secure.
More details can be found over at Sony’s NGP/Vita website and on the PlayStation Blog in the near future.
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I’m buying this the day it comes out I don’t care I’m just gonna charge it. This looks awesome. My PSP and DS Lite are some of my favorite gaming devices.
Now, if they can just figure out how to prevent people from getting .ISO files for the Vita …
whats your problem? just because people take isos how does that effect you? i hope you know half of asia can afford these games i pity you.
half of asia “”"”cannot”"”"” afford these games
Then the other half can (p.s that is so racist)
QQ and buy them then and go donate to some charities when you’re done with all your phat Oprah cash…
yes they can most of them are doctors or make these systems and then steal them
If they can’t afford it then they don’t buy it, simple as that. You’re acting like this is food.
YA YOU ARE SAYING RIGHT IF ANYONE CANNOT AFFORD IT SO BURN YOUR DESIRES OR STOP PLAYING GAMES DON’T CRAZE ABOUT GAMES CRAZE ABOUT THAT WHICH IS CHEAP OR RELIABLE…!!!
Please turn off Caps Lock the next time you type. Shouting is rude.
Wow dude.. just because people cant afford expensive games like you… who is dumb enough to spend money on games.. when you can get it for free?? seriously.. get smart
how?
If all people think “smart” there would be no gaming industry and it will cease to exist just because we are all cheapskates.
Dude just because you cannot put custom firmware and get free games on your own PSP, doesn’t mean you should be hating on ISO games. Did you know at Philippines, when you buy a PSP, they: the seller will install custom firmware on it plus ISO/CSO games that you want. I had to install custom firmware on mine again because I had to upgrade it and it wasn’t that hard, you just need to be patient in searching the proper YouTube vids.
who gives a piss
PSP ve been introduced, i was 14,already it happened before 8years ,eventually its spec come close smart IT another product
Yeah, but you were paid to put in that comment about the ipad, gamers who buy handhelds will still buy the 3ds and the vita.
I was not paid to say anything. I liked my PSP, DS Lite, Game Boy, SEGA Game Gear and many handheld consoles over the years. I just find myself playing on my iPad 2 the most these days. I’m still likely to buy a Vita too.
i’d buy a Vita over an iPad anyday..
as a gamer, i like Physical Input… the mix between the touchscreen + buttons + 2x analog is amazing!
PSP was great… but, it was sony’s first handheld console…
I agree. The vita makes use of many factors that a iPad is unable to acommplish due to lack of a real controller.
That is kinda unfair since places that use euro have to pay the 299 euro and america only has to pay $299 which mean places that use euro have to pay like another 50 euro
Nno matter what, i am getting the vita, the problem is why is at&t the 3g source, why not t-mobile, or sprint thats y peple were booing……so im going for the 249……not wasting my time
At&t is buying tmobile. so it will payoff in the end.
In response to momoka lala. It doesn’t go to sprint or VERiZON or tmobile AT&T has more towers than tmobile & VERiZON & sprint are CDMA every thing the sim card does it’s put in the battery it makes the battery die quicker & it’s harder to make. GSM has a lot of towers you can share plus VERiZON doesn’t have many towers out of America
Get the story straight Verizon is bigger and better than At&t
im unsure about the 3g model i dont want to pay extra for the option then have to pay more just to use it. I agree about the pricing! its insane that they are actually charging more in euro than dollars! at the current exchange rates the wifi only model should just cost roughly €184.50 and €221.50 for the 3G version. Personally I feel like im being robbed and may wait for the price to go down. I also wonder if the vita will suffer from low sales due to its cost just like the 3DS.
for european countiries it’s more than 50 €, 1$ = 0.68€ so european have to pay more than 90€ -_-’
Ya that totally sucks man, you might as well import a North American one, handhelds are always region free because of the simple fact that they can be played anywhere in the world regardless of which region you bought it in… Shipping to Europe won’t be more than 10 or 20 Euros max, I’d say…
Well sony was created IN AMERICA, therefore we should get the homefield advantage :)
Sony is a japaneese company
you dumass, if your PS writing sony computer entertainment america when booting it does not mean its american company, its american branch company, my PS writes sony computer entertainment europe cause its made for european branch.
for real XD are you f’ing stupid.
WOW! lol get a map u ding dong
GET REAL
lmao your really a funny dude…
In Australia its about an extra $100- $115. Which is really lame co zI got so excited over how cheap it was.
Ill probably wait a bit till a cheaper version comes out with more space.
well the price is much better than i expected, otherwise people wouldnt buy it. probably why the GO sucked so much ass lol
Pure epicness. I was wondering if I should get a new ps3 but I changed my mind right when I saw it.
Then why are you writing gamer articles? Devices with no buttons are THE single handed worst ever gaming devices on this planet. Have you ever played with a virtual on screen analogue stick? HAVE YOU!?!? Racing games? Bah! If your control layout sucks so bad that you need AUTO THROTTLE then you’ve started with a recipe for disaster.
Sorry for the rant, I just hate it when people call something that’s clearly not a game console a game console.
I’m not saying that the iPad is a replacement for my PS3 or Xbox 360, and I never said that the touchscreen control was as good as tactile controls (as a matter of fact I called that an advantage of the Vita).
Like most gamers, I prefer a dual-shock or a good old arcade controller over the touchscreen for most games. However, the 3DS and PSP were both pretty underwhelming from a software perspective for me, and I prefer to play on a 10-inch screen vs. a 5 inch screen. Never mind the fact that I can do a bunch of other stuff on my iPad too, battery life blows away the other handhelds, and the App Store has kept game prices much lower than the other handhelds too.
That all said, I’ll still almost definitely buy a Vita (I can’t resist a new gaming system). Knowing what I know so far, I think it’s the best thing to come out of E3 this year (assuming that the games are solid, and Uncharted looks like a great start).
Its not really arugment the newest and bestest ipad uses the apple a5 processor which is a dualcore arm cortex-a9, the a5 is about twice as powerfull as the a4 in the iphone4 and 8 times more powerful gpu wise. all this right from apples mouth. the Vita is a quad core arm cortex a9, 3 of the 4 cores being dedicated to apps and gaming, safte to assume that the 4th is for the os and input/output. the vita is essentially twice as powerfull as the ipad. 4 to 8 times that of the iphone4. facts are facts!
I think the vita is great it looks fantastic and fun i cant wait to buy it.
heh,I thought the same thing about that wonderful 3DS, so when I got it, aaaaaand then >__< happened. Continuously. No internet….come again???!! so yeah. Bummer. The games were alright, they sucked, sure, but were alright still…somehow.
So yeah, PS Vita seems to have the potential to live up to the hype, I'll just get the 3G version and never use it unless I feel the need (yep, got at&t and have the money for a data plan….w00t)…yeah, so that's that. the psp blew me away by making a portable gta game that was a perfect clone of…well…any other gta game. Sony kicked my as before, lets hope they do it again.
Im trading my ps3 into gamestop i get $115 and trading in all my games to get the vita…ive been waiting a long ash time to get it and it just sounds great…everything about it is just awsome cant wait to pre-order it
I so want this.. but i live in Canada. The 3G is with AT&T? We don’t have them in Canada.. will it be available with Rogers/Bell/etc..?
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hello…2 version one with wifi and one with 3G/wifi….sony is always F*CKING EXPENSIVE….i’ll stick to my Nintendo thingies and my PC…..give up already..make something cheaper with $300 (350euros…Thumb’s up Sony gonna save for 3DS and Zelda OoT..
As long as it can be hacked, then everything is fine.
So people saying that the PS Vita is more expensive then the 3DS are stupid. Its the saem price for the WiFi one which, thats all the 3DS has. And its 50$ more for the 3G one, plus whatever the plan costs for it. Although I love the legend of zelda for the 3DS. I can replay it on my N64 any day (just did last month), it alone is not enough to get me to buy a 3DS where as a PS Vita that has online games, Uncahrted, LBP, and all the other sony brands and i bet anything it will have a new God of War game. Yea I will take PS Vita any day. Nintendo has a special place in my heart but after play so many mario and zelda games, i can not bring myself to buy their handheld, the Wii U maybe. I never once was interested in the DS or anything to do with it. My Gameboy advance was the end of my nintendo handheld days and they were good ones ;)
I don’t know dude, Sony was disappointing me this generation, so i think we should wait to see what happens.
Either way i may be a Nintendo fan, but this console looks cool.
I agree with that statement. Especially the PSP. that was a let down. The PS3 was pretty good and some of my favorite games ever are on it but it was not my fav. My Xbox was my fav out of the current gen. In the past it was my N64 and PS2. But handhelds I was pure nintendo until the DS came out. I bought a DS for the diamond pokemon game. I beat the game but never played anything else and ended up selling my DS just cuz it wasnt what I wanted. So hopefully the Vita will bring me back to hanhelds. Either way I decided if the Vita is legit enough I am not gonna worry about any more consoles. Everyone of my consoles has effed up multiple times this gen.
If there making it 3g wirless will they ever make it 4g or 6g?
Well, I think it should be 4g, but the networks aren’t ready for prime-time, and I think there are too many concerns about the data usage from devices like the Vita and iPhone over 4g. Also, battery drain is greater on 4g than 3g. Give it a couple of years, and the carriers will be ready for these devices, and the devices will be too.
Message to masked avenger theirs no such thing as 6G 4G stands for 4th generation mobile phone phones have been mobile for 40 years each G is ten years old. & yes they could make a 4G version later.it would probably be like 50$ more then the 3G+wifi
But what about wiimax, they are suposed to br using 6g
The psvita sounds like a great uplift from the psp, but i live in ireland and right now money is scarce, so i’ll have to wait a year or two until i can buy one a gamestop. I never saw the point in iphone’s ipads, and susc devices, but i’ve always loved sony products. The ps2 is still my favorite Gaming console, and i have a ps3 with ubuntu. I had a psp till it broke, but the screen size was terrible. I never liked nintendo but i loved ps2. The chances are that the psv will be somewhat like the ps2, for millions of people buying it, and it will probably be LTS for about 8 years standalone.
Now all we need is a ps4…
y do u people always try to compare apple’s to oranges yes the 3ds is cool but thats a bout it. if ur not a child then i dont know y this appeals to u the games for that platform are very adolescent. as for the vita witch has a lot more power undeniably has a very weak and soft line up of games similar to the 3ds, lame. i want more from a device that can handle smooth high frame rates and clock speed. but no what do we get, competition with u 3ds babies. adults like games too especially the people who have been using handhelds since sega gamegear. and i dont know bout u but i like to grow, not be stuck in the 90′s. and hey dont get me wrong we were once kids too and thats why nintendo still exists for children. sony has succeeded in stepping up the gaming for handhelds creating the psp with games more like the one’s for your home consoles, finally. but now i c with the vita its like their going backwards. now im still getting one in the hopes they will utilize the power of this beast. as for at&t as the 3g provider lol i live in canada so at&t can eat my bum bum. i choose my provider and the price get real u mo fo’s what u want everthing for freeeeeee if u cant afford it GET A JOB or learn how to make more money (brokeass) i pee 250$ bucks a day haaa come to canada so can get a life
Can you say “No Life”? Douches like you should’nt be born. Lol
I’m buying one but whats the point of 3G? No sense using it when you can hook up to wifi anywhere. And AT&T?! Are you serious? 3G is expensive enough as it is and its pointless (that’s why people jailbreak the Ipod touch) Just go on Skype with PS Vita and you’ll be fine.
I agree, it should be anything except AT&T. I wouldn’t care if they made a giant turd the 3g source but not AT&T.
3g is gay.. just have an android phone and root it.. get free tethering.. which will be 4g faster then gay 3g baha.. if people buy that there dumb
hey man 3g or not people are allowed a choice of what to buy u can’t judge someone by the choices they make, people don’t have to buy 3g version but they want it thats y they buy it.
You can’t compare the PSP to the 3DS. The 3DS is for younger gamers and the PSP is for older gamers.I also can’t wait till the PSVita comes out. Please make Metal Gear Solid for PSVita. (i think they already announced it)
umm i hate to point it out but since this has two joysticks and a cod been promised this is going to blow all other handhelds out of the water. EVERYONE i know thats a guy (and a couple chicks) has played cod even if they don’t like it it is a huge cash cow and it with draw in the masses if they can pull it off….
sorry will not with
? and did u reply to urself?
Course I will
i have ps3, psp and i will buy psvita i think its much more beter then 3ds and any other console that ever come out until now .. i like it and ..hardly wait to get it :)
i am wonder why they didn’t make the 3g model to work with any mobile network its that hard to do that?and in this way all can have acces..
it really doesn’t matter if a new cod game is going to be released because in the end alot of people are going to be able to buy both if they want since they DON’T HAVE TO but them at their release dates.
i already paid off my pre order for MW3 and at the same time close to also paying off the pre order for the vita (woot). ^~^
250$ for wifi vita….. 300$ for 3g vita with no monthly charge.
I think they’ll release it before Christmas,maybe before black Friday – at least in the US
no possibly late january or early febuary
this psvita is the highest technology of the handheld gaming in history buy it or not my team and i know
oh yes and the 3g is much better
this is great info but u need to get more cos this is a piece of crap, cos it DOES NOT say how much it costs in aus
looks great. hope it will be released within 2011
same here
wtf guys?? u stupid i meen sheesh u comparing THE PS VITA TO AN ipad?????????? i mean this peice of shit tablet isnt even made for gaming and has a tiny amount of frking ram AND GRAPHICS AND 3D GAMING AND TECHTONLOOOGY , wtf get usual ps vita is atleast 100x better than the ipad without even argueing about it , get real
Dear SONY marketing team
You bunch of fucking retarded asswipes ,you better pray a meteorite gets you before I do because I will personally hunt your fuckin asses down and kill you one by one.How did you come to the idea to sell the same piece of garbage(jk,the vita looks awesome)for 249 bucks in US and 249 euros in Europe the difference is FUCKIN COLOSSAL 249 euros=338 dollars.So…dear SONY FUCK YOU AND YOUR MOTHER.
Sincerely yours
European dude
Tell us how you really feel.
Wow. Most of you are COMPLETE a**holes!! Quit bombing on Technabob just for liking the damn Ipad!! And btw I love Nintendo ’till I die, and i’m exited to get a 3DS. But the Vita is also BEAST so guess what? IMMA BUY BOTH. And save the smarta** comments, quit being a fat nerd hiding behind a Computer and come to my town so I can break off my size 11 in your a**. :p
cooooool
is the vita have game in it?? or you will buy umd or memory stick??
to have a game??
I Will Bye samsung Galaxy Tap 2 and play on It Forever Sony U R losers
ur prices is Crazy
is it possible that this console will publish nxt year for the first mos.? or there’s a store in phil. salng already?
it coll hope it sell
me wat a coll game
this is d best i have seen all year this is wat i hav been waiting for
how much will it cost on PHP..i dont care if its expensive or not!!i1l buy it no matter what..just add for my collection^^
This console ISN’T ANYTHING LIKE the PSP so can you please stop COMPARING!
i will buy ps4