PS Vita Specs Announced

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 20, 2011 @11:14AM from the hamsters-with-crash-helmets dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sony has announced the hardware specs for the PS Vita and the details have confirmed most fans' hopes instead of their fears. The heart of the system is an ARM-developed Cortex A9 chip with four cores and a PowerVR SGX GPU. The screen is a 5-inch OLED capacitive touch-screen (with multi-touch) and a resolution of 960 x 544. The system will include 512MB of RAM and an additional 128MB of discrete VRAM. There will be front and rear cameras capable of 60fps at VGA resolution (640 x 480)."

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Re:Phones will outperform before the middle of 201 by vux984 · 2011-08-20 13:24 · Score: 4, Informative

I just don't see the point of a standalone portable gaming device when we have phones that are running the Unreal 3 engine and
Driving games are quite bearable. A few other genres work... some puzzlers... But playing an FPS on a phone sucks donkey balls. And anything that requires more than one or two buttons is unplayable... Scrolling shooters? 2D-fighters? Platformers... Disasters all of them.