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PlayStation Vita

The PlayStation Vita: a handheld console that melded big-budget gaming with mobile trends, but ultimately stalled and was discontinued in 2019.

PlayStation Vita

The PlayStation Vita (PS Vita) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on December 17, 2011, then in other international territories on February 22, 2012, and was produced until discontinuation on March 1, 2019. The console is the successor to the PlayStation Portable (PSP), and a part of the PlayStation brand of gaming devices; as part of the eighth generation of video game consoles, it primarily competed with the Nintendo 3DS.

Developer
thatgamecompany
Platform
PlayStation Vita
Genre
Puzzle / Adventure
Original release (PS3)
2009
Founders of developer
Jenova Chen, Kellee Santiago
Core mechanic
Riding the wind as a petal

Lore & Background

The source article does not mention any game called Flower or its lore. The article focuses solely on the PlayStation Vita console hardware, its history, and its commercial performance.

In Their Own Story

The train is quiet. A player tilts the Vita in their lap, thumbs resting on the front glass. On screen, a single petal shivers in a warm updraft, lifting off a field of dry gold grass. They nudge it—just a flick of the rear pad—and it spirals upward, catching a thermal that rolls across the valley. Three more petals peel from nearby stalks and spiral in behind, a small comet-tail of color trailing through the amber air. The player exhales. The train sways. The wind, on screen, does not.

Reader's Guide

The source article does not provide a guide for any game. It describes the Vita's hardware features, including a 5-inch OLED multi-touch capacitive touchscreen, a rear touchpad, two analog joysticks, front and shoulder push-button input, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi support, and a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU with a quad-core SGX543MP GPU. A revised PS Vita 2000 series was released across 2013 and 2014 with an LCD panel instead of OLED, slightly smaller size, and extended battery life. The PlayStation TV, a repurposed version for television use, was discontinued at the end of 2015.

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