Until further notice from Sony Playstation.

psvita channel

1. The handheld includes two analog sticks, a 5-inch OLED multi-touch capacitive touchscreen, and supports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G (the latter is included only in the 3G version of the console). Internally, the Vita 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.

2. The device also features a rear touch pad, a front camera, a rear camera, stereo speakers, microphone, Sixaxis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), three-axis electronic compass, built-in GPS as well as Wi-Fi, 3G, and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR connectivity. The two cameras feature the abilities of face detection, head detection, and head tracking. It also allows for customization and personalization.

3. The PlayStation Vita will be released as two different versions: one with 3G support, and a cheaper version without 3G support. The more expensive 3G-version will also come pre-loaded with some special applications that take advantage of 3G's "always-on" capabilities, such as augmented reality software.[The 3G service will be partnered with AT&T in the US.

4. Unlike the PSP, the PlayStation Vita will not support video output or contain a removable battery. PS Vita is equipped with the storage media slot in addition to the new game medium slot, so that users can choose what memory capacity they want to utilize depending on their use.

5. Software for the PlayStation Vita will be distributed on Vita Cards, a new proprietary flash card format, rather than on Universal Media Discs (UMDs) used by the original PlayStation Portable. Vita game cards will be available in 2GB and 4GB sizes. 5-10% of the writeable space will be reserved for save data, patches, etc.Higher-capacity game cards are planned to be made available for future releases.

6. Unlike the first PSP, the PlayStation Vita will come with Trophy

7. The device will also support backwards compatible PlayStation Portable downloadable titles, PlayStation minis, PlayStation Suite games, PSOne ****cs, videos, and comics from the PlayStation Store.

CPU ARM® Cortex™- A9 core (4 core)

GPU SGX543MP4+

External DimensionsApprox. 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth)
(tentative, excludes largest projection)

Screen (Touch Screen) 5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colors, OLED
Multi touch screen (capacitive type)

Rear Touch Pad Multi touch pad (capacitive type)

Cameras Front camera, Rear camera

Sound Built-in stereo speakers
Built-in microphone

Sensors Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope,
three-axis accelerometer), Three-axis electronic compass

Location Built-in GPS
Wi-Fi location service support Keys / Switches PS button
Power button
Directional buttons (Up/Down/Right/Left)
Action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square)
Shoulder buttons (Right/Left)
Right stick, Left stick
START button, SELECT button
Volume buttons (+/-)

Wireless Communications Mobile network connectivity (3G)
IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n = 1x1)(Wi-Fi)(Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode)
Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR (A2DP/AVRCP/HSP)

noticeable forthcoming List of PlayStation Vita games.

Bioshock Vita,

Little Big Planet,

Dragon's Crown,

Gravity Daze,

Hot Shots Golf Next,

Untitled Killzone game ,

Untitled Call of Duty game,

ModNation Racers Vita Edition,

Mortal Kombat Vita,

Reality Fighters,

Untitled Resistance game,

Street Fighter X Tekken,

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

Wipeout 2048

Ruin

Nice list, comparison is nice though....

thnks4 the thread. i have a question though..... what is the purpose of 3g? specifically as is relates to the PS Vita?

At the bottom of your thread you have Call of Duty listed twice.

The specs is what got me sold for the PS Vita cant wait for launch day and I pray that Bioware is working on a PS Vita version of Mass Effect 3 with Interactive comics of both ME1 and ME2 for our character backgrounds imagine ME3 on the go that would be freaking awesome! =DHekynn

Why isn't LittleBig Planet, Little Deviants, and Ruin in that list?

[QUOTE="Hekynn"]The specs is what got me sold for the PS Vita cant wait for launch day and I pray that Bioware is working on a PS Vita version of Mass Effect 3 with Interactive comics of both ME1 and ME2 for our character backgrounds imagine ME3 on the go that would be freaking awesome! =DGranpire

considering that you can get sd cards in 16gb there is no reason the capacity cant be improved for the game sticks.

Everyone say its 4 core.... but @ ? Ghz each? :)

Everyone say its 4 core.... but @ ? Ghz each? :)

Matthew-first

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a9.php

Specs say 2.5 Ghz, i doubt that though. Must make too much heat and use a lot of power, but hey, what do i know about it?

[QUOTE="NaveedLife"]

Why isn't LittleBig Planet, Little Deviants, and Ruin in that list?

AmazonTreeBoa

[QUOTE="Matthew-first"]

Everyone say its 4 core.... but @ ? Ghz each? :)

DGonlag

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a9.php

Specs say 2.5 Ghz, i doubt that though. Must make too much heat and use a lot of power, but hey, what do i know about it?

I think the PS3 has 3.2 GHz and I know that monster blows some hot wind out. With that in mind it will probably as stated be below 2 GHz. Unless I completely misunderstand it.?

[QUOTE="AmazonTreeBoa"] [QUOTE="NaveedLife"] Fixed and Fixed ;o)...[QUOTE="DGonlag"]

[QUOTE="Matthew-first"]

Everyone say its 4 core.... but @ ? Ghz each? :)

digimonkey12

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a9.php

Specs say 2.5 Ghz, i doubt that though. Must make too much heat and use a lot of power, but hey, what do i know about it?

I think the PS3 has 3.2 GHz and I know that monster blows some hot wind out. With that in mind it will probably as stated be below 2 GHz. Unless I completely misunderstand it.?

I really like the games lineup so far

@AmazonTreeBoa. I think that you read somewhere that ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU is clocked from 800MHz but it will probably be 400MHZ maxed out on Vita... Until !!!!!!

333Mhz is maxed and standard on the PSP now I think ??? Or am I wrong,,,

@riou7 I think that is only half of the announced games....

EDIT....

LOL ;o) --- this thing is probaly stronger than my laptop CPU ( actually I have no doubt it is )

ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore 800 MHz to 2000 MHz

Intel Atom n280 600 MHz to 2.13 GHz

@ AmazonTreeBoa

wIKI is your friend ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A9_MPCore

Awesome PSvita almost day 1 for me with Uncharted. (I don't do midnight launches)

[QUOTE="AmazonTreeBoa"] [QUOTE="NaveedLife"] Fixed and Fixed ;o)...[QUOTE="DGonlag"]

[QUOTE="Matthew-first"]

Everyone say its 4 core.... but @ ? Ghz each? :)

digimonkey12

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a9.php

Specs say 2.5 Ghz, i doubt that though. Must make too much heat and use a lot of power, but hey, what do i know about it?

I think the PS3 has 3.2 GHz and I know that monster blows some hot wind out. With that in mind it will probably as stated be below 2 GHz. Unless I completely misunderstand it.?

True, but it's not the only factor. Also on how many nm (=nanometer) it's produced and stuff like that. Though 2 ghz would indeed be too much and get to hot.

800 mHz could be right, as someone mentioned above.

Dunno about nanometer. That is way over my head :-P yeah 800mHz might be right, and that is underclocked right ? Or is it underclocked when it is below the range of 800mHz to 2000mHz ?digimonkey12

I guess it's underclocked. Maybe we'll see some games that unlock the processor, could be cool, though you'r hand will get burned....

@ AmazonTreeBoa

wIKI is your friend ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A9_MPCore

digimonkey12

[QUOTE="digimonkey12"]

[QUOTE="AmazonTreeBoa"]

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a9.php

Specs say 2.5 Ghz, i doubt that though. Must make too much heat and use a lot of power, but hey, what do i know about it?

DGonlag

I think the PS3 has 3.2 GHz and I know that monster blows some hot wind out. With that in mind it will probably as stated be below 2 GHz. Unless I completely misunderstand it.?

True, but it's not the only factor. Also on how many nm (=nanometer) it's produced and stuff like that. Though 2 ghz would indeed be too much and get to hot.

800 mHz could be right, as someone mentioned above.

It doesn't just work like that. 4x 800mHz is usually not as good as a single core 3.2 gHz.

The single core would be able to do 1 thing at a time better than the 4 core. But the 4 core would be able to open up various other programs similtaniously, but they will be slower.

It's also possible to have 2 cores at a higher clock rate, and 2 at a lower clock rate. With this you will still have decent performance, but also multi tasking.

What i'm trying to say, the amount of Herz isn't everything. Like I said before, it's also about the nanometer it's produced on (less nm = less heath + better performance) and usage of pipelines (multitasking) and stuff like that.

BTW: a good processor doesn't cause graphics to be good. It's important, but the graphics is majorly dependent on the GPU. Fail GPU + uber epic processor = bad graphics. Uber GPU + fail processor = also bad graphics.

You've got to look at the total picture.

no video output? really and no removable battery well that sucks to , what if our battery fries lol buy a new vita nope now i really am avoiding this thing

Tmhanks for the list.

Speaking of memory cards, it seems there will be a 32GB available, too: http://www.psvitalove.com/2011/06/19/ps-vita-memory-sticks/BadKarma63851

Those are memory cards, not the game cards. The games are stored on a game card. Ofcourse more space is nice, but i doubt you'll need it. Gamesaves, DLC and stuff like that all gets stored on the game card.

Movies on the OLED screen with that resolution will be nice i think, that's going to take up quite some space i think.

Thinking of it, games bought online will be stored on the memory cards....

I'm afraid this proprietary memory card will be very expensive, just like the Memory Card Duo (PSP).

no video output? really and no removable battery well that sucks to , what if our battery fries lol buy a new vita nope now i really am avoiding this thing

mariokart64fan

Still waiting to find out the final RAM ammount. Clearly clock speeds had to be chosen based on optimal battery life. Too bad they haven't released the battery specs either.

[QUOTE="mariokart64fan"]

no video output? really and no removable battery well that sucks to , what if our battery fries lol buy a new vita nope now i really am avoiding this thing

digimonkey12

Maybe if you're playing on a SD screen. But not on an HD screen, the Vita is not nearly as powerfull as the PS3, it just almost provides the same graphics, which it can because of the lower resolution.

Look: 960 x 544 = 522240 pixels (Vita).

1920 x 1080 = 2073600 pixels (PS3)

The PS3 has about 4x more pixels to produce. Because of that the Vita can (almost) have the same graphics as the PS3, but it's not nearly as powerfull.

So the Vita games won't look as good as your PS3 games on a HD tv at all.

Still waiting to find out the final RAM ammount. Clearly clock speeds had to be chosen based on optimal battery life. Too bad they haven't released the battery specs either.

sentrygman