In the heart of the PS Vita...

Small point technique on the components of the PS Vita, structured as a smartphone...

Available to the Japan, the Vita of Sony PS - alternate of the PSP - activities in Europe on February 22. Necessarily, it took only a few days to the sites for the reverse, as UBM Techinsights. They are especially focused on the processor of the console. A SoC that integrates a large chip in which there are four hearts ARM Cortex-A9 and a graphical circuit also quad-core type PowerVR SGX543 MP4 designed by Imagination Technologies.

Badgé Sony CXD5315GG, this processor is the fruit of the collaboration of three key players, Sony of course, but also IBM and Toshiba. Samsung, for its part, merely provide the memory of the console, either two 256 MB of DDR2 modules - S4 which are also incorporated into the die of the SoC of the PS Vita. Finally, the flash memory integrated (dedicated to the system, the storage is performing on removable memory cards) is brand Toshiba while Qualcomm provides the modem from the 3 G version, reference MDM6200.

The SoC of the PS Vita...

In other words, the heart of the Vita PS is not so far removed from those of the latest smartphones and tablets of the market. What is somewhere logical when we know that Sony has the intention, with the PS Vita, to expand its influence and offer both the traditional video game, but also of small games distributed expensive steps via the PlayStation Store. A strategy confirmed by the will of Sony life of developers easier by simplifying the programming on PS Vita.

Executives of the company having to the tribune in recent months to certify that the development of games on PS Vita will be also accessible to small independent developers, and that the latter can choose controls of their choice (buttons physical, tactile, both, etc...). At a time where the App Store and others, and their touch games from 99 cents, steal valuable market share in traditional portable consoles, Sony response to profile for some already as a last chance.