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Rumor: Playstation's NGP will be called the "PS Vita"
Ricardo Trejo
Sony’s PSP successor, otherwise codenamed the “NGP” (Next Generation Portable), is rumored to finally have a real name. And that name is “PS Vita”, taken from the Latin word for “life, the same word you see in Vitatops and Vitamin water. What’s Sony up to with this type of branding — a rejuvinating nature in the world of handheld gaming? Who knows, but it’s got me pulling an Angry Video Game Nerd and asking, “what were they thinking?!”
GamesPundit was the first to break the story, and since then images have been slowly seeping their way through the gaming blogosphere, adding a degree of believability to this absurd name. But then again, when Xbox’s Project Natal was changed to Kinect, everyone thought that was a little too much too. Oh, and I think the Wii got the same treatment if my mind serves me correctly XP.
GamesPundit.com Reports:
“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! The above is of course still speculation and rumours and we have no confirmation as of yet but we will have some soon.”
I suppose we’ll find out the validity of this story in a week or so at E3, though I’m not holding my breath that Sony will come out with a name better than the Vita. I mean, it’s not like they’re the most original and creative bunch when it comes to naming their gaming progeny (i.e. PS One, PS2, PS3, PSP).
