Sony will release the slimmer and lighter PS Vita redesign in the UK next week, on February 7. The suggested retail price for the machine is £180 (roughly $300).
The
PCH-2000 model, which supersedes the old PCH-1000 Vita and was
originally released in Japan last October, is 15 percent lighter and 20
percent slimmer than the original Vita. The machine claims it features a
6-hour battery life for games, and 1GB of storage is built into the
device.
There's
also a slight tweak to the machine's edges--they're slightly
rounder--but the highly-praised OLED screen has been swapped out for an
IPS LED one, though it's still running at the same resolution of
960x544.
The
PCH-2000 Vita will reach US shores down the line, though Sony is yet to
announce when this might be. And while the Vita Slim's Japanese launch
saw the handheld available in lots of fancy colours, in the UK we'll
still have to make do with just regular black.
Stock
of the old Vita model will not be replenished, so if you're after one
of the old models, then you might want to think about investing in the
next few weeks.
The
Vita's fortunes have been boosted slightly by the launch of the
PlayStation 4, with Sony saying that its own internal data shows that
many people are using the Remote Play functionality of the two machines.
