Unlike PSP, PS Vita Will “Primarily” Be A Gaming Device

We all know that PSP has variety of functions apart from just gaming, and quite frankly when PSP hit the main scene people weren’t probably sure about the purpose of buying this handheld device and many users took it as a multimedia device rather than a dedicated gaming console. Definitely there has been some lacking on Sony’s part, but now since they have learnt the lesson, PS Vita won’t be the same.

According to SCEE’s president Jim Ryan:

I think with PSP we tried to position it as a rather broad multimedia device. We talked a lot in the early days of PSP about its video playback functionality its use as a music device and a host of other multimedia functionality that it had.

I think this time we’ve realised that perhaps [it] ended up confusing consumers, and they weren’t quite sure what the device was really all about. So this time the Vita does all of that stuff that we talked about on PSP, and it does it a lot better.

We’ve been a lot more single-minded and much more focused in our positioning of Vita. We’re saying that this is primarily a gaming device. It has been developed from the ground up as a gaming device. What it does best is play games.

Another thing that Ryan emphasized on was the originality and the uniqueness of gaming experience, as he believes that consumers didn’t “really appreciate” the fact that ports of PS2 and PS3 games could be played on PSP, preferring instead to play the games on Sony’s home consoles.

SCEE is now more eager to see exclusive titles or versions for Vita. Vita, which launches with 12 first-party titles plus various third-party offerings, will release in Japan and Asian territories on December and internationally on February 22.

Via VG 24/7