PlayStation Vita

The PlayStation Vita (officially abbreviated PS Vita) is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to the PlayStation Portable as part of the PlayStation brand of gaming devices. It was released in Japan and parts of Asia on December 17, 2011, in Europe, North America, South America and Singapore on February 22, 2012, and in Australia on February 23, 2012. It primarily competes with the Nintendo 3DS, as part of the eighth generation of gaming.

The handheld includes two analog sticks, a 5 in OLED multi-touch capacitive touchscreen, and supports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and optional 3G. Internally, the Vita features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor and a quad-core SGX543MP graphics processing unit, as well as LiveArea software as its main user interface, which succeeds the XrossMediaBar.

A redesigned PS Vita model, the PCH-2000 series, was released in Japan on October 10, 2013. The new system is 20% thinner, 15% lighter, has an additional hour of battery life, has moved from OLED to LCD, includes a universal standard USB port (micro USB), and 1GB of internal storage memory. The PlayStation Vita TV, which allows players to play PS Vita games on a television, was released in Japan on November 14, 2013.

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