Editing Handheld game console (section)

==== PlayStation Vita ====
[[File:PlayStation-Vita-1101-FL.jpg|thumb|PlayStation Vita]]
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The '''PlayStation Vita''' is the successor to Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) Handheld series. It was released in Japan on December 17, 2011, and in Europe, Australia, North, and South America on February 22, 2012.

The handheld includes two analog sticks, a 5-inch (130&nbsp;mm) OLED/LCD multi-touch capacitive touchscreen, and supports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and optional 3G. Internally, the PS Vita features a 4 core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor and a 4 core SGX543MP4+ graphics processing unit, as well as [[LiveArea]] software as its main user interface, which succeeds the [[XrossMediaBar]].

The device is fully backwards-compatible with PlayStation Portable games digitally released on the PlayStation Network via the PlayStation Store. However, PSone Classics and PS2 titles were not compatible at the time of the primary public release in Japan. The Vita's dual analog sticks will be supported on selected PSP games. The graphics for PSP releases will be up-scaled, with a smoothing filter to reduce pixelation.

On September 20, 2018, Sony announced at [[Tokyo Game Show]] 2018 that the Vita would be discontinued in 2019, ending its hardware production.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://gematsu.com/2018/09/ps-vita-production-to-end-in-2019-in-japan|title=PS Vita production to end in 2019 in Japan - Gematsu|date=2018-09-20|work=Gematsu|access-date=2019-03-10|language=en-US}}</ref> Production of Vita hardware officially ended on March 1, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gematsu.com/2019/03/ps-vita-production-ended-in-japan|title = PS Vita production ended in Japan|date = March 2019}}</ref>
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