PSP Vita

Everything is pointing out that PSP vita will be released before the year ends, meanwhile we can read its confirmed tech specs that Sony announced in an interview.

Well, the data have come at last, there is no going back and unless you have the following technical data are accurate for PlayStation Vita when it lands in the Japanese market before the end of the year and shortly afterwards the rest of the globe. It seems that for once in this generation the price itself will be well below what it really delivers.

Facial Recognition for PSP Vita

Many technologies will be embebed with the release of the new portable of Sony: the PSP Vita. They had made a technical presentation of what is to come with the from and rear cameras included on the device, both also capable of video conferencing.

But words are meaningless without a video to show how they will work:

Sony: PSP Vita

PlayStation Vita has undoubtedly been one of the highlights of E3, though they gave us the opportunity to meet it months ago as Sony NGP. A brief summary, we could say that this is a device with 5-inch OLED display, large but lightweight, 4-core processor, with all the buttons /triggers / sticks as usual (including a rear multi-touchpad), which will come in 2 versions: WiFi and WiFi + 3G, with a fairly tight price of 249 USD and 299 USD respectively.

All this is fine, but as is happening to the Xperia Play, would remain in alone if not for 3rd party upport. Thus, great songs have already been announced as Uncharted: Golden Abyss, an RPG called Ruin, ModNation Racers, LittleBigPlanet, and even Street Fighter x Tekken, this is the PSP Vita trailer:

Next Time, Take Security More Carefully

Valued PlayStation(R)Network/Qriocity Customer:

We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011,
certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account
information was compromised in connection with an illegal and
unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this
intrusion, we have:

1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;

iOS & Android vs PSP & NDS

Interesting cake graphics presented by Flurry Analytics guys, which shows the incidence and growth of Android and IOS for the US gaming market.

First, below is the income share for games on portable devices, where Android and IOS have greatly increased their percentage of the pie at the expense of a PSP and (especially) Nintendo DS to be left behind.

Havok goes for Android

Google and all the Open Headset Alliance are cooking everything they have on the frige to improve Android Experience. Now Videogames are going to expect a benefit with the use of this Physics engine. But, what's is the big deal with it??, a Physics Engine is:

Computer software that provides an approximate simulation of certain simple physical systems, such as rigid body dynamics (including collision detection), soft body dynamics, and fluid dynamics, of use in the domains of computer graphics, video games and film.

PSP 2 vs Xperia Play

Both portable devices, both designed for entertain and both with the Play Station brand behind them. However they have such a different target market: gamers by one side, cellphone user by the other.

Ok, let's make a little table with the comparison of theirs specs:

Sony Xperia Play

I simply don't like it, but to watch few videos, here are the review videos from Engadget: