PS Vita Japanese edition Review on Engadget

Engadget have their hands on a Japanese import PS Vita and have posted a quick hands on video and short written review. While they don’t really go into that much depth, they quickly cover the major aspects of the new system.  Its still definitively worth checking out if your even remotely thinking about getting yourself a PS Vita. They didn’t seem too impressed battery life, however they did manage over 5 hours. And I wonder if it was on the batteries first charge?? Still they loved the OLED screen, the controls and the true console gaming graphics on a portable device.

Inside, it’s another quad-core beast, an ARM Cortex A9 with an additional SGX54MP4+ GPU AND 512MB of memory and an additional 128MBs of VRAM. When it comes to raw specs, it simply dwarfs the PSP. In fact, it also has double the RAM of the PS3, although that guy strikes back with more dedicated VRAM (256MB versus 128MB for the Vita). Unfortunately, while we expected the built-in apps to jump into action this generally wasn’t the case — the browser, in particular, puts on an especially poor performance. Games, which are understandably quite complex, often take their time to load up, but when they do, they offer us a very visible jump on the scale and detail of what we’ve come to expect from portable gaming. Sound quality is also also suitably crisp, with rich noises projecting out from the two stereo speakers.

Read the review and what the hands on video here

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