New Model for PS Vita Gets a Trailer

Sony began their press conference with a bang by announcing a new model for PS Vita and showing a trailer of it.

[SonyNGP]

More like NOLED Vita :P

[vigilante_man]

Should of gone 4G. Won't give up my Super OLED for anything else!!

Happy about 64Gb Memory Card!

[NewMonday]

with the internal 1G flash memory those who buy physical don't have to worry about memory cards anymore.

[PoSTedUP]

omg :O :'D so beautyful. hope they have controller case for this, the vita cramps my hands without one (im on it litterally all day).

[Army_of_Darkness]

The happiest person on stage looked like the dude with the pink vita?! LOL

[minimur12]

This translator really effing annoying-

errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

uhmm.....

*long pause*

*FLIP PAGE*

[ohiostatesman]

With Vita TV - This device doesn't make any sense to have. Why would anyone pay 150-200 dollars to play vita games on their tv when they can just get a ps3 or xbox 360 for 200 dollars. Those console offer superior gaming experiences on your tv. This is beyond ridiculous. Plus you gotta buy a 32gb memory card for 100 dollars or a 64 gb card for 160 dollars. what??

[sincitysir1]

Might buy another one for the nice colors ! When my oled battery dies ill just switch to my other one =D

[come_bom]

This dampened my interest in the new Vita: Vita's OLED screen has been replaced by an LED one.

[minimur12]

Thought it was LCD?

[miyamoto]

LED LCD has matured in terms of display tech. Its why Apple and many OEMs sticks with it. They have good saturation and contrast and black levels and wide viewing angles now.

I have a Galaxy S III with AMOLED screen and a Macbook Pro with LED display and an new ASUS Nexus 7 with IPS display and I can tell you they all have excellent display screens.

[jcnba28]

Why didn't they announce this at Gamescom when they dropped the price?

Sucks for the gamers who just bought the original model.

[PrimeGrime]

Not really as you can see most plan to keep those old models or even continue buying them because most people are over reacting about this LCD.

It isn't old LCD's like used in the PSP, that would just be asburd. These are new super LCD's that easily rival OLED screens. Which is why I have said too many times now Sony pointed that out during the conference "the advancements of LCD's" they didn't say that for nothing.

A lot of new stuff these days is using these new super LCD's, they are just as good as TFT and Super AMOLED Plus screens. The differences are extremely minimal and not important enough to say one is worse than the other just a matter of which looks better to you really cause they look so similar anyway.

[Relientk77]

So many colors to choose from, awesome

[FullmetalAlchemist]

Yeah really like the red one...or is that pink? Well anyway the grey looks good too!

[RytGear]

I SINCERELY hope that OLED is a difficult word to translate...

[colonel179]

Me too. Hope they release the tech specs soon to know for sure.

[tubers]

Yes! No more MURA, Black Crushing/Clipping and it's cheaper too! (returned 4 VITAs because of this)

1GB internal does help for saves.

64 GB card was also announced!

Hope both gets an international release soon. :)

[ZodTheRipper]

All the right moves to make Vita a success =)
Too bad I already got one :S

[tubers]

Well, unless you don't like it's OLED then it's still mostly good!

[r21]

You've returned 4 vitas? What have you been doing to them D:

[GrandpaSnake]

i dropped mine four times and its still kickin

[TongkatAli]

I'm scared their jaws are going to break from smiling so hard, lol.

[ninjahunter]

Ew gross XD LCD? Well im glad that i grabbled one earlier haha. It might not be a big deal to most people, but to me OLED is definatelly a system seller, I can hardly anticipate how awesome crunchy roll will be on it.

[wishingW3L]

people on the chat say that the OLED suffers from major burn-ins apparently and that's why they went back to LCD. Now to hope it is an IPS panel at the very least....

I didn't know about the burn-in though since I never owned a Vita. These are news to me.

[Otoshigamisama]

Dude those burn ins only happened because those vita owners don't know how to take care of the system, it can pretty much be avoided if one is careful. :)

Ps,IMO I prefer OLED but this is still good news to me hope you are one of the future vita owners :)

[strigoi814]

OLED is better than the LCD for sure...but hey with this announcement we can see a PS4 and PSvita bundle..

[M-M]

It's very possible, won't be too long now.

[Eyesoftheraven]

Their poor arms... 0_0

[Lboogieskells]

Did the screen get smaller? Sony is showing a lot of confidence in the vita. I believe it will do well this holiday.

[Kydawg]

FFX remake on the Vita remake!!!
#Bluejeansnowbrownjeans

[GMoneyChuck]

Damn, I'm really liking that light blue one.

[Kydawg]

No HDMI output yet!? WTF

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

Had you waited an extra hour or a bit less you would know why... LOL

[Kydawg]

Yup, placing foot in mouth. Buying Vita TV.

[pyramidshead]

haha true :P

[miyamoto]

Yup that is a bummer.

No A/V out?
My PSP can do that Sony!

its 2013 and all Xperia devices have both HDMI out and wireless mirroring on TV.

Vita TV is an additional expense.

[xxV0rschlaghammer]

Now even more models of the vita to sit on shelves!

[coolasj]

I'm going to love my original Vita like I never have before. OLED, you'll never leave me right? But... I do want that new Baby Blue one... I can have two right?

[Williamson]

So does this mean the oled model will coexist with the LCD model or will the oled model get phased out? I hope they keep both out and have the LCD model cheaper.

[LOGICWINS]

Most likely the OLED model will be phased out by early 2014 and Sony will bank on consumers fighting like dogs for the remaining older models given the superior screen.

[boybato]

there were rumors that they'll phase out the 3g model.

[Jaqen_Hghar]

More battery life and 1gb storage makes a man happy

[DarkBlood]

i was so close to getting a vita but now i got to wait even longer turns out it was pink not red lol

[CptFlashHeart]

It still needs games, goddammit. This is just the PSP revisted. New hardware every 18 months with a trickle of games.

GAMES SELL HARDWARE, NOT NEW HARDWARE.

I'm glad I sold mine, there is literally nothing worth buying on this system.

[WitWolfy]

Not entirely true bro... I got more than 12-18 games totally worth any gamer on the move's time.
I love my PSV

[jcnba28]

You're right, PSP > Vita

[kwiksilver99]

has a price for the new model been announced?

it would be a great move if it is priced less than $200 even if the screen is a downgrade

[PrimeGrime]

Aw man they killed me with that forest green one.. Sigh I was hoping for a more vibrant green, like the ones previously shown when the Vita was released. That neon green was awesome.

Guess I'll stick with black. I think the new models look better than these in black at least.

The LCD thing is a tough cookie though, no doubt its very new LCD tech so who knows it could be S-LCD 3 for all we know if that is the case, over all S-AMOLED+ is still better but it won't be too noticeable besides the darkness of blacks. I mean these screens have been compared quite a bit online and everyone says there is very little difference between them all.

Gonna have to wait for full specifications I suppose.

I can't personally say I haven't seen S-LCD 3 in person, I have the S4, don't know anyone with a HTC One X screen to compare like that, just seen video comparisons but if it isn't that new of a LCD screen I probably will just keep what I have. Or I think I will wait for some comparison videos cause I do like how that black one looks but I am not sure if its a good enough trade off.

I wonder if the pixel density will be higher with the LCD also.

The 1GB internal memory and longer battery life is a plus though and boy am I excited to get me a 64GB card now. That should be all I need.

I hope this stuff releases soon in the U.S. as well, might not be the case since its selling better in Japan but I hope it does. I need comparisons now!

[carmelo43]

Are these colors coming to NA