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While we’re still months away from seeing the PlayStation Vitashow up in the stores, Sony continues to tease us with more live demonstrations here at the SCEJ press conference – what we saw just now was a quick walkthrough of the initial setup procedure, and our first look at the interface in action. Setup is simple 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 large, friendly app icons across the Vita’s five-inch touchscreen.
Our hosts skipped through a few media applications, showing off a pair 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 as well, stating that a player could hop out of a game session, pop-into a Twitter app, and then jump right back into the game. We’ll give you 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.
Gallery: PlayStation Vita user interface
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