PS Vita

PS Vita!!!!! One of the coolest PSP's that I've played on!!!
The Joysticks are very flexible and the keys are so soft!! I just love it.
Over that the touch.. A capacitive and the most wanted! Just SUPER Cool!
I can almost BET its Sony's PSV thats the best console now!!!
Price : 21k INR

Key Features:

• Rear touchpad
• Multitouch screen
• Dual analogue sticks
• 3G connectivity
• Quad-core processor

Introduction

The portable gaming market has been dominated in recent years by smartphones and tablets. The iOS AppStore and, later, the Android Market paved the way for an industry that provided a vast range of games at knock-down prices.

In a world where mobile gaming has radically changed over the past few years, there is intense pressure for “traditional” mobile gaming hardware vendors to attract, or retain gamers. Of course, competing platform -mainly smartphones- have a great advantage of having a killer-app, namely “voice”, that makes them nearly ubiquitous, which made them popular gaming platforms as a side-effect (you rarely buy a smartphone+subscription “to play”). Although touch gaming has an undeniable success by any metric (downloads, money…), the question for any dedicated gaming hardware is: is it good enough to get users to buy and carry another device?

PS Vita: Design and Feel

Far more than just an update to the PlayStation Portable (PSP), the PS Vita takes handheld gaming into a new dimension. For the first time, game developers have been given some serious power to play with, and exploit, with games that look and play remarkably similar to those of home consoles like the PlayStation 3 (PS3) and Xbox 360.

Xbox stands far from the cool PsV. It doesn't stand a chance to be compared with it anyway!

While the insides have completely changed, the design remains familiar to those who owned a PSP. The 5 inch touchscreen takes centre stage, flanked by the instantly recognisable PlayStation controls. As an upgrade from the PSP, Sony has given the Vita two analogue thumb sticks which are quiet soft and flexible making it comfortable to use.

All buttons have a good, tactile feedback when pressed and - although much closer together than on a PS3 controller - hitting the wrong button in a fit of gaming rage is a rarity. All the buttons can easily be pressed. Unlike the PSP (1000, 2000 or 3000) it has a nice switch on button instead of the switch which is very uncomfortable. 

The two analogue sticks are small, but we found them to be accurate and the rubber tips meant are fingers stayed securely in place. Its a MUST BUY.

Still, the prices are quiet high and not worth. There are rumors going on that prices will be coming down to 12k (INR) by the end of the year. 

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• PS Vita: Connectivity and Hardware

  Sony has ditched the UMD format used solely for the PlayStation Portable and has instead opted for selling games on a proprietary format very similar to SD cards. The slot for these cards is located on the top of the PS Vita and next to this is another proprietary port (Sony likes using tech that no one else uses) for data transfer via a supplied USB cable.
  On the left edge there is a SIM card slot - the PS Vita runs on Vodafone in the UK and AT&T in the US - and along the bottom there's a headphone jack, a port for the mains charger and a slot for Sony's proprietary (yes, again) memory card.
  
  While our review unit came with a 16GB memory card included, it noramlly comes bundled with a 4GB card, and as the Vita has no internal storage at all, games cannot be saved without purchasing a memory card. Sony charges just short of £40 for a 16GB card, which we thought to be a rip off when a 16GB microSD card can be had for less than £10.
  The battery of the Vita is not accessible, so you can't take a spare for a long flight, which is a shame as we found battery life to be poor. Sony reckons you'll get between three and five hours, and we found that to be fairly accurate. Obviously, turning on Flight Mode and lowering the screen brightness will help, as with any device like this.
  
  Overall, we found the PS Vita to be well made and sturdy without being too heavy, but the front panel is plastic so be warned - it will scratch far easier than the Gorilla Glass found on high-end smartphones.
  
  
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• Why you should buy:
  • Very powerful
  • Excellent graphics for a portable
  • Sturdy and well-made
  Why You Shouldn't Buy:
  • Slightly childish user interface
  • Poor battery life
  • Rear touch pad doesn't yet add to experience