PS Vita - SlashGear

‘PS Vita’ Stories

White PlayStation Vita hitting Japan in June

Ben Kersey, May 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

Black isn’t cool. You know what’s really cool? White. We’ve seen the pale color infect just about every gadget known to man, and now the PlayStation Vita will be the latest to be blessed with an all white exterior. For now it seems to be heading just to Japan, and you can expect to pay a pretty penny for the privilege. When it goes on sale in June, the WiFi version will cost ¥24,980 (~$313) while the 3G version will be ¥29,980 (~$375). Read The Full Story

Skype for PS Vita arrives today

Chris Davies, Apr 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

Skype has announced a new version of its VoIP app for Sony's PS Vita, turning the gaming handheld into a portable internet phone over WiFi or 3G connections. Set to hit the PlayStation Store for US users today, and for Europe and Asia users tomorrow, the Skype app for Vita supports video calling as well as voice-only calls. Read The Full Story

PS Vita sales take a beating in Japan

Shane McGlaun, Apr 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

Sony can't be happy with recent sales of its new PS Vita portable console in Japan. Sales the portable gaming device have reached a record low in Japan. Executives at Sony have to be wincing right now with the Vita slipping to fourth place spot in hardware rankings. The Vita only sold 8250 units in Japan for the week. Read The Full Story

Sony releases PlayStation Suite SDK open beta

Chris Davies, Apr 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

Sony has released the PlayStation Suite Developer Program open beta, as promised, enabling coders to create games for the PS Vita, PlayStation-certified phones and tablets, and more. Available for PC only, the PlayStation Suite SDK 0.98 includes the PC Suite Studio and UI Composer for creating interfaces that take advantage of physical and touchscreen controls, as well as a simulator for testing out your handiwork. Read The Full Story

Sony PlayStation Suite SDK open beta drops April

Chris Davies, Mar 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

Sony's PlayStation Suite SDK will be released as an open beta in April 2012, the company has confirmed, allowing developers to create games and content for the PS Vita, as well as PlayStation Certified phones and tablets. Released in closed beta back in November, though only in the US, UK and Japan, the new open beta will broaden support to a greater number of countries. The full version of the SDK, meanwhile, will follow on later in 2012, with an annual fee of $99 for distribution through the PlayStation Store. Read The Full Story

PlayStation Network is down for 14hrs on Sunday

Chris Davies, Mar 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

Worry not, gamers; the PlayStation Network downtime today is Sony's intended maintenance, not the signs of something nefarious. The scheduled inaccessibility for PS3 and PS Vita gamers is set to last fourteen hours solid - from just after noon Pacific until approximately 2am Pacific on Monday, March 5 - during which time any users signed in will be kicked out, and no new sign-ins will be allowed. Read The Full Story

Featured

Sony Tablet P hands-on unboxing [AT&T]

Cory Gunther, Mar 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Sony is all set to release their latest Android tablet to the world. That comes in the form of the unique clamshell designed Sony Tablet P dual-screen Honeycomb tablet. Complete with Sony Playstation certification and plenty of games we wonder if it can compete with the PS Vita, or end up just another Android tablet on the market. Read on below for our initial impressions and hands-on video.

Read The Full Story

Gravity Rush heading to PS Vita on June 12

Rue Liu, Feb 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

The PlayStation Vita exclusive Gravity Rush game has finally received an official release date, but it's not what anxious gamers were hoping for. Sony has slated the game now for a June 12 release in the US, although the game has already been well received in Japan since February 9 under the name of Gravity Daze. Along with the announcement, Sony released a new trailer for the game. Read The Full Story

Sony PS VIta sales surpass 1.2 million units worldwide

Rue Liu, Feb 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Sony's PlayStation Vita next-gen portable gaming console recently launched in the US and seems to be doing quite well, despite previously nose-diving sales numbers following its release in Japan. The company announced today that PS Vita sales have surpassed 1.2 million units worldwide. That's finally some good news for Sony, which has suffered an estimated $2.9 billion loss in revenue this past year. Read The Full Story

Reviews

PS Vita Review

Chris Burns, Feb 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

This past week we’ve been checking out Sony’s newest and most powerful handheld gaming system in the history of its existence, the PS Vita. This mobile console is also known as the PlayStation Vita and is able to be used as a gaming system in and of itself or in tangent with your PlayStation 3 – today we’re just taking a look at how the system works on its own, connected with the PlayStation Store for digital content, and with cartridge games which you’ll be buying individually and separately. Is this the greatest mobile gaming system in the history of time, or is it the end of a dying genre?

Read The Full Story

Netflix denies BlackBerry devices, sticks with PS Vita

Chris Burns, Feb 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at Netflix have made it clear that they have no current plans to release a Netflix app to BlackBerry. At the same time, the brand new portable gaming system known as the PS Vita, aka PlayStation Vita, has received a 1.0 version of the application in the PlayStation Store. This set of moves makes it clear which groups Netflix, a giant in the streaming video business today, has faith in for the near and extended future, and spells bad news for RIM whose struggling mobile platform BlackBerry is at its worst sales point in several years. Read The Full Story