On DecemSony Computer Entertainment CEO, Kazuo Hirai, answered questions about a potential successor to the PlayStation Portable in an interview with The New York Times, saying that they would impress gamers in the handheld market by using a combination of touch screens and buttons rather than touch screen-only games on competing platforms such as the iPhone and iPod Touch. PSP2 looks like it's a pretty powerful machine." When asked about the PlayStation Portable successor during the Tokyo Game Show 2010, Shuhei Yoshida, said that he could not answer the question though he noted that "Personally, I cannot see Sony not making another portable gaming device." On Novemsenior vice president of Electronic Arts, Patrick Soderlund, confirmed that he had seen the PlayStation Portable successor when asked about it in an interview though he could not divulge more details. We're running at 60 fps, what can we do and do we have to build all the art assets over. Always a big thing for us is the performance. Further confirmation came on September 16, 2010, during an interview at PAX 2010, Mortal Kombat Executive Producer Shaun Himmerick revealed a successor to the PSP, referring to it as the "PSP2" and stating ".we have a PSP2 in the house and we're looking at the engine, like what can it support. Yoshida also said that developers were present at the meetings from the very beginning when SCE was developing new hardware, and that SCE had to constantly keep talking with Worldwide Studios developer when developing the new hardware. Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, revealed in an interview with UK video game magazine, Develop that when Ken Kutaragi left Sony Computer Entertainment, the new CEO, Kazuo Hirai, told him to engage SCE Worldwide Studios in the development of the next PlayStation. The device was supposedly unveiled internally during a private meeting during mid-September held at Sony Computer Entertainment's headquarters in Aoyama, Tokyo. Kotaku and IGN corroborated the story, also claiming that the pictures were legitimate. The source of the pictures said that the pictures were of an older prototype version that had overheating issues, and that the design had subsequently been changed to that more similar of the original PlayStation Portable device. On November 17, 2010, VG247 released pictures of an early prototype version of the PSP successor showing a PSP Go-like design along with two analog sticks, two cameras and a microphone. Development kits for the handheld had reportedly already been shipped to numerous video game developers including both first-party and third-party developers. Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, had admitted in an interview that they were indeed developing new hardware in the PlayStation family of gaming devices. Prior to its announcement by Sony Computer Entertainment, several sites such as Kotaku, VG247, MCV and IGN, as well as the senior vice president of major video game publisher Electronic Arts and Nikkei had confirmed that the handheld existed. In addition on July 7, 2010, a report by the Wall Street Journal revealed that a new portable device is currently in development by Sony and that it "shares characteristics of game machines, e-book readers and netbook computers". Rumors of a true successor to the PlayStation Portable came as early as Jwhen Eurogamer reported that Sony was working on such a device, which would utilize the PowerVR SGX543MP processor and perform at a level similar to the original Xbox. Internally, the Vita features a 4-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCoreprocessor and a 4-core SGX543MP4+ graphics processing unit, as well as LiveArea software as its main user interface, which succeeds the XrossMediaBar. The handheld includes two analog sticks, a 5-inch (130 mm) OLED multi-touch capacitive touchscreen, and supports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and optional 3G. It primarily competes with the Nintendo 3DS, as part of the Eighth generation of gaming.Ī limited edition was released in North America on Februa week earlier than the official launch with the 3G model of the device (Wi-Fi model in Canada), the game Little Deviants, a limited edition carry case and a 4GB memory card. It was released in Japan and parts of Asia on Decem, in Europe, North America, South America and Singapore on Febru, and in Australia on February 23, 2012. It is the successor to the PlayStation Portable as part of the PlayStation brand of gaming devices. The PlayStation Vita (プレイステーション・ヴィータ Pureisutēshon Vīta ?, officially abbreviated PS Vita) is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.
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