Sony unleashes new portable ‘Playstation Vita’
June 7, 2011 01:07 pm
Sony made a big splash at the first day of E3:2011 in Los Angeles Monday with their new handheld gaming system, Playstation Vita. “Vita means Life,” said Kazuo Hirai, president and group chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment. Sony may want to see if they can use Roberto Benigni’s film La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful) to market it because this portable is gorgeous to look at and is a serious portable gaming system.
Previously called the NGP, Vita sports two analog sticks, a multi-touch 5-inch OLED screen, dual cameras, and a rear touch pad for some innovative uses with games. As reported back in January, the Vita has an ARM Cortex A9 core CPU, a SGX543MP4+GPU, and a Sixaxis motion-control system.
Vita will be available for the holidays in two versions, a Wi-Fi only version for $249 and a 3G+WiFi model for $299.
The main demo showed one of the first games that will be made available Uncharted: Golden Abyss, which showed the Vita’s advanced rendering technology and dynamic lighting used to make impressive visuals on a portable gaming device.
In Golden Abyss, a demo was shown where Drake was scaling and repelling on the side of a cliff where users could toggle between the dual analog sticks or what was called the touch melee to move Drake by tapping ahead on “painted” edges to where the gamer wanted him to move. The Vita has sixaxis control which allows you to tilt the unit and tap on the screen to guide Drake along in a smooth and intuitive manner. The developers called it “Playing the way you want,” because users are given the option to choose which way they prefer or use a combination of the two based on the strengths of the method. Once in action mode, the dual analog sticks allowed gamers to use the same controls they’re used to in PS3 Uncharted games. (Buzz Focus)
Previously called the NGP, Vita sports two analog sticks, a multi-touch 5-inch OLED screen, dual cameras, and a rear touch pad for some innovative uses with games. As reported back in January, the Vita has an ARM Cortex A9 core CPU, a SGX543MP4+GPU, and a Sixaxis motion-control system.
Vita will be available for the holidays in two versions, a Wi-Fi only version for $249 and a 3G+WiFi model for $299.
The main demo showed one of the first games that will be made available Uncharted: Golden Abyss, which showed the Vita’s advanced rendering technology and dynamic lighting used to make impressive visuals on a portable gaming device.
In Golden Abyss, a demo was shown where Drake was scaling and repelling on the side of a cliff where users could toggle between the dual analog sticks or what was called the touch melee to move Drake by tapping ahead on “painted” edges to where the gamer wanted him to move. The Vita has sixaxis control which allows you to tilt the unit and tap on the screen to guide Drake along in a smooth and intuitive manner. The developers called it “Playing the way you want,” because users are given the option to choose which way they prefer or use a combination of the two based on the strengths of the method. Once in action mode, the dual analog sticks allowed gamers to use the same controls they’re used to in PS3 Uncharted games. (Buzz Focus)
