How to attract attention: claim that you know something about new PlayStation hardware that nobody else does. Case in point: Gamespundit.com, who have posted up a story suggesting the NGP is going to be called PS Vita.
“Today we received some new, and exclusive, information from an anonymous source,” says the site boldly, which appears to have been going for a little while now. “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.”
There some images that Gamespundit claim back up their source, although the page is filled with disclaimers – it’s branded a rumour and we’re asked to take all of the above with a grain of salt, so it’s not clear what’s going on.
It’s an interesting claim though, but we seem to remember hearing that the system had similar a codename before it was called the NGP – so whether Sony have reverted back to that with a spelling tweak, or someone’s got confused we’re not sure.
It’s almost certainly going to be named at E3 though, one way or another.
Roll on next week…
gazzagb
Vita sounds horrible. Almost certainly fake which is a good thing though. Why would a Japanese company chose a Latin word? Makes no sense.
Dancing is forbidden
Well, portable is an english word ;)
Why wouldn’t they use any other words besides their own just coz they’re japs? Loads of companies use foreign words for products.
Origami Killer
but japs going for latin is strange :/ i just said the same thing as gazzagb :P
Dancing is forbidden
But why? Their biggest market would be Europe and America, whose companies use latin names for stuff alot. Like Vauxhall, and there’s loads more. See here http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090302172731AA969Y3
Origami Killer
haven’t heard of half those companies but there is a quite a lot, well most or all are Europe based which all spoke latin in the past. Just you wouldn’t expect the japanese to think lets use a latin word for the name.
Dancing is forbidden
Crap name. Hope it’s not true.
Why can’t they just think of another word with the same meaning as portable?
TSBonyman
NGP rolls off the tongue so well, it’s a shame that’s not going to be the final name.
sparkyscrum
Whats wrong with PSP? Just model number 40xx for wifi and 45xx for 3G version?
quinkill
I like it. I think people will just call it ‘Vita’ and drop the ‘PS’ which makes it quite catchy…IMO.
Sympozium, cyclone tornado AGAIN!
Isn’t vita pronounced as some kind of bread as well?
Sympozium, cyclone tornado AGAIN!
Wellm if so… might as well go for teh potato bread maybe Playstation Pastie although thats not bread.
JesseDeya
How about Mini P, the diet coke of PlayStation, only one calorie.
KeRaSh
My first guess was that the NGP’s OS was called PS Vita, just from looking at the picture.
KeRaSh
Wanted to make a reference to how the PS3 has a section called Play Station Life…
Also, I must be the only person here that doesn’t mind the word Vita. Must be because I’m used to the italian language because my girlfriend is italian.
tritium
NOOOOOOOO
JoshHood
I know it sounds shit, but that picture of the OS and that angle and lighting is not in any of the press shots released so far.