Sony has in its home country of Japan, new handheldconsole the Playstation Vita on the market. From the digital manual will prove a few new details with regard to accounts, video display and storage of user data.
Sony hopes the Playstation Vita to do better than with the Playstation Portable, which only by a fall in prices is still fairly sold in previous periods. Also, the Vita to compete with Nintendo’s ailing 3DS into. In Japan were at the launch long lines at the store and in the presale, the device would be sold out, but that says nothing about the popularity in the long term or sell in other countries. In the US and Europe start the sale on 22 February.
From the digital manual are some new details about the device have become known. Thus, in contrast to previous posts only a single Playstation Network account to the combination of Vita and memory card are linked. Using a different account to log in to all user data will be erased and restored to factory settings to be made.
Of the data on the game cards can not be backed up. This can be only of data on the memory cards. The savedata can to PS3 or a computer to be transferred via these systems, in addition to a PSP. Further, it is 1080p by default is not present, only 720p display. Also, there may be six LiveArea screens will be shown, there is support for screenshots and the data usage via 3g be tracked. The battery life could be three to five hours, but if there are a lot of 3g or wi-fi is being used, this is shorter.