UPDATE 2: So I’ve (James Martin) been looking around the web at various articles about the Vita and there appears to be some confusion among some people, so I thought that I had better sort this out.
I came online on Saturday morning to find a pending article from Zenzi who wrote this article who then told me that we had some exclusive news. He showed me the logs of the person who told him the news and then I did a little bit of research of my own, looking around for any sign of Vita. Let me make this clear- I did not know of ANY blog called Mega Rock before someone else told me about the post that had the images in it, which I added to the first update of this article. Once I found this blog and saw that the original article appeared to be posted on Thursday, I emailed the author and explained a few things to him. I got a reply yesterday and he appeared to be totally fine about it, even saying that it could be beneficial that I was able to make the news more popular.
However, this morning I came onto the Internet and found that this blog had been totally removed and a few new articles sprung up saying that we stole the information from this blog without sourcing back to it originally and stealing the limelight. As I said previously, we had our own source for this news and didn’t steal Mega Rock’s information. When I got shown the post with the images (which, might I add was posted after the post here on Games Pundit) I added the new evidence to this post as an update and linked back to it.
And that’s pretty much the story of this news- I don’t know why the blog was taken down and I haven’t heard anything from Hugo, but if I do I will post an update with his approval. However, I am now more sure than ever that this is the real name of the NGP.
UPDATE: Another post has come up elsewhere on the Internet which seems to show some images of what appears to be the Vita logo inside a magazine E3 proof sheet. You can find the post here and just one of the 2 images below. Again, this is not proof, but the evidence is slowly building up!
Original Piece: The ‘NGP’. The ‘Next Generation Portable’. The ‘PSP2’.
These are all synonyms for the successor of the PSP. But what is the final name?
The NGP was officially announced in January of this year. The release of the PSP successor itself wasn’t a big shock. We all knew it had to come eventually. The real shock was the specs of the device, which was essentially credited as a PS3 Portable with similar graphics.
After the announcement it became a tad silent around the NGP as Sony is waiting on the E3 to announce more.
But today we received some new, and exclusive, information from an anonymous source.
The official name of the NGP!
Rumor has it that the new Sony handheld will bear the name PS Vita. Vita is Latin/Italian for ‘life’.
Does Sony hope to bring life back into their stock? Do they want to rejuvenate the PSP? Revitalize your needs for portable gaming?
Our source tells us that this will be the definite and final name of the new system Sony will bring out at the end of 2011.
Sony is expected to give further announcements on the E3 next week.
In my opinion this is a very surprising name. Mainly because it will be the first innovative name Sony is using for any of its consoles/handhelds.
P.S. Please remember to take this with a grain of salt and this is NOT fake information that we have made up. The source cannot be proven reliable, of course, but this site was not set up with the intention of getting hits with bogus information. Other sites may do this but to be honest, I think that’s pretty sad. To reiterate, please don’t take this as fact and look to E3 for the final name; hopefully we’ll have it right!
Vita in HK is a juice/beverage series company brand. Not good.
In Romanian “vita” means “cow”
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LOL! Nice. Can’t wait to get my hands on the ol’ Playstation Cow!
“Vita” certainly fits into those crazy buzz words that Sony likes such as: Bravia, Satio, Neo, Vivaz etc
But I will wait until something more grounded comes out before I call the NGP “Vita”.
kk, sony, name it sumfin random…
BUT NOT “VITA”?!?!?!?!
WHY OH WHY OH WHY!! xOO
sonyyyyyyyy
i’d prefer NGP or PSP 2 over the playstation vita!!! >;OOO
Still calling it the PSP 2, don’t care what the name is.
sure….am underrated website like this that I’ve never heard off got the official name from an anon source, now calling it rumour.
why should I believe this:/
Because I don’t strive to get cheap hits from bogus information, as I wrote at the end of the article. If you don’t believe it then that’s fine, but calling us that we made it up is totally wrong.
It’s not from a magazine, it’s a proof sheet for E3.
that sound like a fucking food name. Might as well fucking call it PSPizza. Stupid Sony! no matter what other shit name will have, i will still simply call it : PSP2
PSPizza sounds like a legit name for some odd reason
Hmm…that means the acronym would be “PSV”…ok, I’ll buy that.
I’d be careful about making anything even close to Vista. Bad omen.
vita: in flemish it means mental institute.
sony should be more careful when picking a name, open up a dictonary in a few world languages could never hurt.
I just cant wait for the release of PS Vita… The price is very nominal and I am going to buy it!!
Well you guys called it! Well done!