The day has arrived – the new slimmer, lighter PlayStation Vita model is now available at retailers across North America. Pick up the new model today as part of the Borderlands 2 Limited Edition PlayStation Vita Bundle, featuring the first-person role-playing shooter Borderlands 2 with six DLC packs and an 8GB memory card, all for $199.99 (MSRP). This is a limited edition bundle, so don’t miss your opportunity to pick up the new PS Vita model today.
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Hands-on the new with PS Vita
PS Vita’s new design has tons of tweaks and adjustments, aside from the obvious thinner design and weight reduction. The Start, Select, Power, and PS buttons have been raised slightly, making them easier to press. The grips on the back of the system have grown a bit, resulting in a more comfortable experience… and less accidental taps on the rear touch pad. The edges of the system are more rounded, which just feels better. The display is now LCD based, but I didn’t notice a dramatic difference in picture quality.
– Justin Massongill, PlayStation.Blog
The new model is approximately 20 percent slimmer and approximately 15 percent lighter than the original and features 1GB of internal memory, extended battery life, a new high-definition liquid crystal display (LCD) and rounded edges that make PS Vita even more comfortable to hold. PS Vita is the ultimate companion for any gamer with more than 1,000 games available (including classic games from PS one and PSP) and “Remote Play” with PlayStation 4, which allows most PS4 games to be streamed to the PS Vita system over a local Wi-Fi network. Pairing your PS Vita with your PS4 to use Remote Play is even simpler with last week’s system updates. The content library for PS Vita will become even richer when PlayStation Now support launches on the system later this year.
In addition to Borderlands 2, God of War and God of War II are available today for PS Vita as part of God of War Collection. And that’s not all for this month — Soul Sacrifice Delta launches on May 13 and Sly Cooper Collection launches on May 27.
May is a big month for PS Vita, right? Well it doesn’t end there, with Helldivers launching this summer and Minecraft, Metrico, Tales of Hearts R, Freedom Wars, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number all expected to release in 2014.
Check out the sidebar of this post for the PlayStation.Blog team’s hands-on impressions of the new slimmer, lighter PS Vita and let us know what games you can’t wait to play on the new model in the comments!
You want to talk about big months for Vita? How about allowing us to once again play games like Spyro, Crash and Metal Gear Portable Ops, that you made compatible on April 21st just to go back and make them incompatible 2 days later?
oled for life…or riot :)
64 gb card….or riot :)
When is Sony going to treat their handhelds with the same respect as their home consoles? I never have this problem with Nintendo systems, both 3DS and Wii U get equal support from Ninte do.
Drop the price of memory cards PLEASE I will not wast my time with a Vita until then.
I fear that SONY or whomever in charge of Vita system/hardware are fighting the very reason to convince peoples to buy it.
The highly priced memory cards are the issue atm. we need bigger ? yes we got as big 32 ‘n soon 64. BUT, the price is not right at all.
Half the price of the memories or even cut their price them to 50~80% of , after all, there are no competitors to be feared.
I picked this up and it is awesome! Long live the Vita!
diablo 3 or riot
@43 My second Vita was MIA during those couple days that Crash/Spyro should up downloadable for the Vita. Just last week I found it and used Content Manager to copy them from my primary vita to my computer and then to my secondary vita. Games worked fine.
@50, umm PSN accounts are not region locked. I can play a EU PSN game on my NA PSN account. What you’re asking for is impossible. Laws around the world can’t give you access to EU or JP content on a NA account without filing for every title that is available. You’re lucky PS even allows playing of other region titles on a region apart from it’s own
Infamous spin off or riot
This is the third Vita I have personally purchased now lol I bought an original and sold it to my little brother while simultaneously buying another brand new Vita OLED(spreading the Vita love) and now I’ve bought a Vita slim for my two youngest brothers lol spreading that Vita love! ;)
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