New PS Vita Model

[NostalgicMillennial]

wow..I already didn't want one

and no rumored HDMI-out like what the other sources said (granted they were right about the new revision though)

really surprised they didn't use 4G technology either...guess their little "mobile network" deal with AT&T wasn't as popular as they would like

 

[WiiUBricker]

5" LCD Screen (No OLED.)

Not sure if this is a bad or a good thing

 

[NostalgicMillennial]

Not sure if this is a bad or a good thing

folks on IGN are saying it's just as good...but others are saying this could cause screen bleeding on the sides like what my hacked Daxter edition PSP-2000 slightly suffers..

in short..sony is making their stuff cheaper so they can make a larger profit..just like the PS3 "revisions"...although we saw a price drop for that "eventually" too

 

[Hero-Link]

so.... where are the games now?

I keep seeing PS Vita prices going lower, a nem model, a PS Vita TV device... but still no AAA NEW game on the horizon... at least for me.

 

[PolloDiablo]

Is there a name for the model yet?

PS 2Vita

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

PS 2Vita

Ha! That made me laugh. (It's like 6AM here and I have been up all night working lol)

PS Morte could have also been a possible name. (kidding here.)

 

[Gahars]

PS 2Vita

PS 2Vita2Thousand

Because if you're going to follow sequel naming conventions, what better series to start with then the Fast and the Furious?

 

[spotanjo3]

Good thing that I do not have PSP Vita and 3DS but it is very nice design and lightly weight. Unfortunate,y I will pass it because of no games that interested me at all.

 

[ov3rkill]

I really thought that they upgraded their RAM to 1gb, then I checked again, it's only the internal storage. haha.
They should've just go to 16gb internal, less hassle for us to buy those damn expensive vita memory cards.
OLED is expensive, so no surprise they're downgrading to LCD. I just hope it's just as good. If it's IPS, then it's good enough. Looking forward to a review on this thing, hopefully, someone from GBAtemp will get one for review.

 

[naved.islam14]

Oh noes! I gotta get one now!

 

[Sakitoshi]

If the new screen is as good as the Xperia ones there will be no problem with the color calibration, Xperia screens are very colorful.
I was expecting a TV-out feature on the new model or a smaller screen to make it more portable, but my predictions were bad.

 

[jonesman99]

This looks like even more of a reason to get a Vita. I finally get to play Guacamelee and that dragon game I heard about on Toonami. I'm pretty sure this is also coming to the rest of the world either later in the month or in November, I also want to say that it might be priced at 179.99

 

[Foxi4]

I'm liking this new model - microUSB should've been used from the get-go. It's a shame that it doesn't have an OLED screen like the original, but if it means that it can be cheaper and reach a wider audience then that's perfectly fine by me. Can't wait to snatch one of those 64GB memory cards too - I've got a 32GB one but it's chuck full of games at this point and I find it hard to manage space. Sometimes I have to remove games that I haven't even finished yet to make space for new ones which is something I never used to do... Sony, is PSPlus a scheme to make me buy more memory cards? ( )

 

[ViRGE]

my guess is that Sony will add a color gamut option to the new vita that will fix this like how the psp 3000 had an option to change the "color space" from wide to normal.

Unfortunately that likely wouldn't work. In the case of the 3000 the new LCD was a wider gamut than the older one. But in the case of the Vita the new LCD is potentially a narrower gamut than the OLED, especially if the new LCD is TN (as it looks at first glance). It's one thing to clamp down a larger space to emulate a smaller space, but if the new LCD can't do the kind of absurd deep blues that Samsung's OLEDs are known for, then no software modification can control for that. ]

The best case scenario is that the new display has a gamut similar to the OLED, in which case you can compensate for minor differences and the white point in software. But if it's a narrower gamut then there's not much that can be done. The latter scenario is more likely than the former.

 

[Joe88]

This is what the vita should have been, all thats left is to see if the lcd has any affect on picture quality

 

[razielleonhart]

i still feel like throwing on my vita. i never play the damn thing i mean i bought soul sacrifice played it for a bit and now its dead somewhere in my room

 

[Prior22]

Very weak new Vita. Its a little bit lighter and has a slightly better battery. That's alright I suppose. But you're taking away the OLED screen and only giving a discount of ten dollars over the current OLED Vita version. Not worth it.

Is there any chance of a Vita version down the road having a user replaceable battery? One of the few advantages the PSP had over DS was being able to upgrade to a ten hour battery. If this new Vita had that option I would consider giving up the OLED screen a fair tradeoff.

 

[YayMii]

They're going the route of the PSP and calling it "PS Vita 2000 series". The model number is PCH-2000.

Is there any chance of a Vita version down the road having a user replaceable battery? One of the few advantages the PSP had over DS was being able to upgrade to a ten hour battery. If this new Vita had that option I would consider giving up the OLED screen a fair tradeoff.

I wouldn't consider that an advantage, considering that the DS already had a 10 hour battery and that the DS lite had a 17-19 hour battery.

 

[Armadillo]

I don't have one (a vita), but I've read a lot of people bitching about burn in on the oled one, especially from the browser. How wide spread is that? I wonder if that might be pushing the change to lcd as well.

 

[GamerzHell9137]

So without OLED screen and only 10 bucks cheaper?
That sucks.
And isn't LCD less resistant than OLED screen?