Sony Reveals Official Vita Specs, RAM Remains Uncut at 512MB
The time has finally come, tech gurus. Sony has released the official hardware specifications for the PlayStation Vita, and needless to say, this little piece of tech packs quite the punch.
After rumors regarding a cut in RAM from 512MB to 256MB, Sony has quelled the fears of graphics whores by confirming that the device will come packed with all 512MB of memory and 128MB VRAM, meaning that it has more RAM than the almighty PlayStation 3, which only has 256MB, as well as 256MB VRAM.
Here’s the full list of social networking services that will be available on the device:
Facebook – Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people’s real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Over 750 million active users visit Facebook each month.
Foursquare – foursquare is a location-based service that helps users explore the world around them. Using PS Vita, users can “check in” at the locations they visit to meet up with friends, and share information about places. Users can also collect virtual badges for exploring new places, and can earn points to compete against friends.
Skype – Skype is software which enables people to communicate with others around the world using Internet-connected devices. Skype has more than 170 million average monthly connected users (for the three months ended June 30, 2011). Users of PS Vita will be able to use Skype to make free calls to others on Skype, as well as low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles virtually anywhere in the world.
Twitter – Twitter instantly connects people everywhere to what’s most meaningful to them. At the heart of Twitter are short messages called Tweets, which are 140 characters or less in length. Users can follow celebrities, friends or other people they find interesting to discover what’s happening around the world.
The actual hardware specs are as follows:
- Platform Name - PlayStation Vita
Model number – PCH-1000 series
CPU – ARM Cortex-A9 core (4 core)
GPU – SGX543MP4+
External Dimensions - Approx. 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth) (tentative, excludes largest projection)
Screen – Touch screen – 5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colors, OLED - Multi touch screen (capacitive type)
Main memory – 512MB
VRAM - 128MB
Rear touch pad - Multi touch pad (capacitive type)
Cameras - Front camera, Rear camera
Frame rate - 120fps@320×240(QVGA), 60fps@640×480(VGA)
Resolution - Up to 640×480(VGA)
Sound - Built-in stereo speakers - Built-in microphone
Sensors - Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), Three-axis electronic compass
Location - Built-in GPS (3G/Wi-Fi model only) - Wi-Fi location service support
Keys / Switches – PS button - Power button - Directional buttons (Up/Down/Right/Left) - Action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square) - Shoulder buttons (Right/Left) - Right stick, Left stick - START button, SELECT button - Volume buttons (+/-)
Wireless communications – Mobile network connectivity (3G/Wi-Fi model only) - IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n = 1×1)(Wi-Fi) (Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode) - Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (A2DP/AVRCP/HSP)
Slots/Ports – PlayStation Vita card slot - Memory card slot - SIM card slot (3G/Wi-Fi model only) - Multi-use port (for USB data communication, DC IN, Audio (Stereo Out / Mono In), Serial data communication) - Headset jack (Stereo mini jack) (for Audio (Stereo Out / Mono In)) - Accessory port
Power – Built-In Lithium-ion Battery
AC adaptor - Supported AV content format
Music - MP3 MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer 3, MP4 (MPEG-4 AAC), WAVE (Linear PCM)
Videos - MPEG-4 Simple Profile (AAC), H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High/Main/Baseline Profile (AAC)
Photos - JPEG (Exif 2.2.1), TIFF, BMP, GIF, PNG
With this much power, a 5″ touchscreen, two analog sticks, and lots of third and first-party support, we’re extremely excited to see what happens with this monster of a device. Stay tuned for more, including North American and European release dates.
13 Responses to “Sony Reveals Official Vita Specs, RAM Remains Uncut at 512MB”
Those are GREAT specs. Man this thing should be fantastic.
Though I have to be honest – the Resistance game demoed didn’t look as amazing as Uncharted, which is surprising for a FPS. I’m sure like with most consoles, quality gets better with time.
i thought the same thing. hopefully they get the final version looking better but when i first saw that i was like that looks horrible (graphics)
The Beast is coming
And i must buy it asap
Please Uncharted Bundle!!!!!!!
Woo!
Im still hanging on the edge about this one, im not worry about the prize but i worried it might failed like it did the original PSP in aspect since i bought one when it first came out and looked damn cool tech but after awhile is not so cool anymore. However i still own original PSP model back and PSP games was not exactly top notch at all,
I really want to know that is Dev’s really going to support PSPvita this time? rather abandom like they did to PSP and mostly important is… will Sony get this right this time and learn their mistake from PSP?
Right now at this stage, it seem look good but however i would like to know if PSP vita is capable to play PS3 games on PSPvita and mabey Trophy aswell, i mean like all the games already bought on PS3 tranfer to PSPvita, if not then i think i already lose interest the PSP vita.
Devs gave up on the PSP mostly because of piracy…which I think lead to poor sales of the platform because who wants to buy something that isn’t being supported by developers…
We all know Sony’s stance on piracy and hacking now, so it’s safe to assume it won’t be an issue with the Vita. With specs like that I would think every Dev would want a run at it. I wouldn’t worry at all about lack of support.
keep in mind that it was there first crack at a portable device some games were hits , some were misses , but they tried it out. seems like they learned a lot from the psp and the psv has a lot more to offer then the psp. the psp was pretty much above ps1 right around ps2 level of types of games. but psv pretty much offers full ps3 games on a portable device , like killzone , restiance , uncharted , ect , instead of strait up ports they are brand new games to those series. i’d still like to see psv games for other sony franchises like infamous , god of war , rachet and clank , ect.
Shouldnt that last paragraph say 5 inch touchscreen?
From those specs I dont see a video out. Guess its something that theyll add for the PCH-2000 model.
Typo! Thanks for the correction.
I thought that rumor made absolutely no sense. Giving the extremely small price different between a 256MB chip and 512MB, it just wouldn’t make sense for Sony to downgrade to try and “save money.” It’s hard to think that this thing could potentially outperform the PS3…obviously only on the smaller screen size, it wouldn’t look as good on a 55 inch HDTV, but still.
Euh… actualy it’s 512+128 for a total of 640MB. The PS3 actualy have 256+256 for a total of 512MB… So the Vita barely outpass the PS3, probably to support all these features like CGC
wait..why is anyone NOT talking about the strange resolution and fps?
Nevermind…