The PlayStation Vita is also known as "PSVita" or "PSV" is a handheld game console by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to the PlayStation Portable, PSP, as part of the PlayStation brand of gaming devices. It was released in Japan and parts of Asia on December 17, 2011 and is expected to be released in Europe, Australia, and Latin and North America on February 22, 2012.
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The device features a "super oval"-shape similar to the design of the original PlayStation Portable, with a 5-inch (130 mm) OLED capacitivetouchscreen in the center of the device. The device features two analog sticks (unlike the PSP which features only a single analog "nub"), a D-pad, a set of standard PlayStation face buttons (
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), two shoulder buttons (L and R), a PlayStation button and Start and Select buttons. Internally, the device features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor (3 of the 4 cores will be usable for applications) and a quad-coreGPU SGX543MP4+.SOFTWARE
Unlike the PSX DVR, PSP and PlayStation 3, the PlayStation Vita does not use the XrossMediaBar interface. Instead it uses a touchscreen-based UI dubbed LiveArea, which includes various social networking features via the PlayStation Network. At launch the PlayStation Vita web browser will not support Adobe Flash; HTML5, cookies and Javascript however will be available.
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On December 17, 2011, the Playstation Vita was launched in Japan with 325,000 units sold in the first few days after the launch but sales dropped 78% in the 2nd week ending on December 25, 2011 to only 74,000 units sold.
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