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Games wise, there is no doubt that the PS Vita is better served at launch than any console we have ever seen
Along with the two analogue sticks, the PS Vita sports the iconic Sony d-pad, face and shoulder buttons, and a PS button to accompany start and select.

That said, expense is undoubtedly the PS Vita has an Achilles heel and that is a hefty amount of money to find in famously impecunious times, and its games can set you back up to.

With naturally-placed sticks, a shaped plastic back and surprisingly light at 279g, the Vita is as comfortable to use as it is to look at certainly more so than the PSP.

Like most Sony products the PS Vita is a slick, sexy machine bound to impress entire carriages of fellow train travellers, and it will quickly transform you into a cloth-using wreck, thanks to the mass of fingerprints you will leave all over its super-shiny display
In everyday use.

It has to be said that those games vary wildly in quality, but there are enough top-class efforts to have completists planning how to approach their bank managers.

It has a specification that will make any gamer salivate: a quad-core processor and dedicated graphics processor, a gorgeous, standard-setting 5-inch AMOLED screen, a motion-sensor and gyroscope, front and rear cameras (which, perhaps, are disappointingly low-res) and most uniquely a rear touch-pad which generates all manner of opportunities to provide new forms of gameplay
The use that those games make of the PS Vitas unique features also varies wildly.

It has no fewer than 33 games available in the UK (the Japanese got a mere 24 when it launched there in December)
There is no need for any speculation about what it is like any more,we have been living with our PS Vitas for a while now, so here is our definitive verdict on Sonys newest portable console.

Prospective PS Vita owners will have to be both keen gamers and pretty flush financially
But above all, it is the first handheld console equipped with dual analogue joysticks,which, according to designer Takashi Sogabe, were the trickiest things to get into.

It really is an impressive piece of kit, and probably its most impressive aspect is how the majority of the games almost look as though they could be running on a PS3.

The seemingly interminable wait is over: Sonys PS Vita is at last ready to be released into the jungle of the UKs retail sector, bringing the games industry to centre stage at a time when, traditionally, it makes about as much noise as a church mouse
In Uncharted: Golden Abyss, for example, the touch-screen adds greatly to gameplay, with plenty of touch-based puzzles adding freshness to the franchise’s blueprint, and the ability to trace paths for Nathan Drake is generally helpful, although it can become a hindrance when careful timing is required.

Plus there are hidden costs: if six weeks spent living with the PS Vita have taught us anything, it is that anyone who buys one will also have to invest in a (proprietary) memory card, because the 16Gb one provided as standard fills up very swiftly.
Even as it launches, the PS Vita is still attracting slightly puzzled comments from those who would not class themselves as gamers, why, the question goes, would I want to spend my money on a hand held console in this day and age, when I could play games on a mobile phone that I got for free?.

And thanks to those dual analogue sticks, they play like it, too
Specification and practicality.

Volume controls, a microphone, plus inputs for proprietary memory cards and a 3G sim round off the handhelds cosmetics
Thats a perfectly good argument if you’re happy spending the rest of your life playing Angry Birds and Farm Ville, but the whole point of the PS Vita is that it sets out to provide a fixed console experience in a portable package,and it accomplishes that mission more successfully than any other handheld console in history
It just feels right in the hands.

In a way, it is a bit of a shame that the PS Vita superficially resembles the PSP so closely, as it’s vastly superior to Sonys first stab at a handheld, in every conceivable respect.

One of the undoubted joys of being an early adopter of the PS Vita lies in showing it off to people