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.
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Sony PS VIta sales surpass 1.2 million units worldwide
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.
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PS Vita Review
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?
Netflix denies BlackBerry devices, sticks with PS Vita
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.
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Sony feathers PS Vita store
After lackluster game options were blamed for slumping Japanese PS Vita sales, Sony is doing its level best to avoid the same fate in the US and Europe with a range of games and other apps freshly released this morning. Hitting alongside first full in-store sales of the PS Vita, the fresh content includes Live Tweet, Flickr and Netflix, together with Touch My Katamari and Plants Vs Zombies. However there's already controversy over pricing, with Plants Vs Zombies coming in at $14.99.
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PS Vita hits UK
Sony's PS Vita has hit the mean streets of the UK, stores across the country opening at midnight to give eager gamers their chance to grab the next-gen portable, with US sales expected to begin within hours. Although early queues for the Vita had only garnered low numbers earlier this week, by midnight there were several hundred waiting outside retailer Game's flagship London store, The Telegraph reports.
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Sony Vita OS Review
This week we’re getting our first look at the Sony PS Vita, a device which is set to be officially set in stores for sale tomorrow, and the first live version of Vita OS. What the Vita operating system represents is not only a new look at handheld gaming, but the prospect of an operating system that is all Sony’s own, and as Chris Davies will tell you, one that’s more than ready to take on more screens than just the PS Vita. What we’ll do here for you is run down and review the operating system on its own as well as specifically as it exists here in its first iteration: on the PS Vita portable PlayStation certified gaming system from Sony.
PS Vita release week rundown
This week we’re seeing so much news on the PlayStation Vita that you’d swear it hadn’t already been on the market for months in Japan. What we’ve got though is a launch both in the USA and in the UK with the system showing up in Target stores as early as yesterday and pre-release bundles appearing at places like Gamestop from the start of this week. We’ve got the device here in the office and will be giving it an extensive review both in operating system and hardware along with the games that are available here at launch, but for now – columns galore!
PS Vita queues hardly an Apple threat
PS Vita First Edition bundles have shown up in some US stores already, but meanwhile loyal Sony addicts are queuing for their turn at the cash-register with the OLED gaming portable: at least, a few are. PlayStation Europe tweeted out a photo of the first three in line outside a UK store, waiting for the PS Vita to officially go on sale on February 22.
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 20, 2012
We'd diving deep into portable gaming territory here on SlashGear with the PS Vita - take a peek at our unique coverage leading up to our full reviews both here in the USA and in the UK. Begin with the Microsoft is right to not sell a PS Vita competitor column by Don Reisinger. Next we've got your humble narrator's own Sony PS Vita 3G hands-on. Then read Chris Davies column by the name of Sony's four-screen strategy needs Vita OS. Take a peek at the Foxconn special coming out this week!
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Sony PS Vita 3G Hands-on
It’s time we got our hands on the PlayStation Vita 3G, also known as the PS Vita as it’s released this month in the United States and the UK. In addition to the UK release which will be handled starting with the UK Sony PS Vita 3G hands-on by Chris Davies, we’ll be taking a close look at a handful of games and the AT&T coverage we’ve got here in the USA. What follows is our first look at the device as it arrives here just days before the full February 22nd release!
Sony’s Four-Screen Strategy Needs Vita OS
Changes are afoot at Sony: new CEO, new PS Vita on the market, and a new opportunity to demonstrate the company can deliver on its “four-screen” strategy of convergence. Until now, that strategy has been a vague ambition to sell users a Sony TV, phone, tablet and PC. Now, though, with the PS Vita finally reaching US buyers, part of Sony’s overall gameplan is starting to become clear. Vita OS is the “thin edge of the wedge” on gaming hardware, Yoshio Matsumoto, director of business at SCE, confirmed last week. Meanwhile, Sony Ericsson is no more, and Sony has sole control of the rudder: the company promised nothing but smartphones for 2012, but that doesn’t mean Sony won’t sacrifice Android in favor of a platform – and an ecosystem – that it alone controls.
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