While we’re still months far from seeing the PlayStation Vita appear that can be purchased, Sony continues to tease us with more live demonstrations here on the SCEJ press conference — what we saw today was a fast walkthrough of the initial setup procedure, and our first check out the interface in action. Setup is discreet and predictable: select your region, create or log into your PSN account, enter your birthday — pretty standard for today’s handheld gaming devices. The UI itself looks primed to make smartphone users feel right at home, spreading a cloud of enormous, friendly app icons around the Vita’s five-inch touchscreen.
Our hosts skipped through a number of media applications, showing off a couple of movie trailers and concurrently running the device’s music player and photo viewer. We didn’t see it live today, but Sony suggested that cross-app multitasking is compatible with games to boot, stating that a player could hop out of a game session, pop-right into a Twitter app, after which jump right back into the sport. We’ll come up with a more detailed account once we’ve hit the TGS show-floor. Can’t wait? Peek our gallery below, or see Sony’s live demo above.
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