The PlayStation Vita invites first-time users to tap an icon on its home screen and take a trip to Welcome Park, which isn't really a park. It's a pure-white void where a disembodied female voice lives. "Welcome to Welcome Park," she says.

Sony has finally come out with its replacement for the PlayStation Portable, and it's impressive. The PlayStation Vita takes the PSP's signature design and adds more processing power, optional 3G, dual analog sticks, and an amazingly bright, colorful OLED screen.

Powerful graphics; Beautiful screen; Dual analog sticks

Short battery life, and battery isn't removable; Proprietary memory card; Clunky media manager

It's game on for the Sony PlayStation Vita. The first portable gaming system to offer dual analog sticks, the Vita also delivers a quad-core ARM processor, a stunning OLED capacitive touchscreen and breathtaking graphics.

Most powerful portable gaming device ever; Tight dual analog controls; Fantastic OLED display; Fast charge time

Lacks multitasking capability; No Flash Support; Proprietary PlayStation Memory card; Only supports 3G data

When the Sony PlayStation Vita arrives in North America on February 22nd, it'll face stiff competition.

Light and durable design with excellent controls; Rear touchpad works well; permits unique

Overpriced proprietary memory cards; Onboard 0.3 megapixel cameras are

With gaming on the go becoming ever more smartphone-shaped, some would say it was foolhardly to release a new dedicated handheld, such as the Sony PS Vita. The full-fat and full-price Nintendo 3DS struggled against the cheap yet powerful thrills offered by more versatile and ever-present platforms...

Five-inch OLED touchscreen; Quadcore processor; Launch games line-up; Five-inch OLED touchscreen; Quadcore processor; Launch games line-up

Expensive; Fiddly card ports; Focus on core-gamers; Expensive; Fiddly card ports; Focus on core-gamers

When the Sony PlayStation Vita arrives, it'll face stiff competition. Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have become powerful, cheap and ubiquitous. And with great, inexpensive games readily available on a device that you're already carrying every day, is there any reason to spend...

I love the playstation vita system its fun and its like having a mini ps3 in my pocket on the go with me all the time. Alot of my friends own one and its always fun playing games either with them or against them and either way we always enjoy playing it.

On the go fun

Not alot of games

The PS Vita is a huge step up from its predecessor the PSP, for instance it features dual analogue controls which makes many games easier to control, also the added feature of a front and rear touch sensitive surface increases the creativity of control methods.

excellent hardware; multiple control features and large screen

limited number of top quality released games so far

i love the vita. great console. but i have problem. *start and select buttons - hard to press cause they're so small. *dark spots. - i also have problem in the screen. when i play the vita in dark place and when the screen goes black,but still on, some darker spots become visible. it annoys me.

The PS Vita is actually a pretty well thought out product. I loved the PSP despite the fact that it has some major issues such as the browser performance. However, I think the PS Vita has taken quite a step forward to solving the previous issues.