PS Vita Launch Line-up, New Exclusive Games and More Revealed

[PS3 News]

Sony European Product Manager Adam Grant has revealed details on the PS Vita launch line-up today, including new exclusive games and more below.

To quote: At the time of this blog post going live, Senior Vice President of http://www.worldwidestudios.net/ Michael Denny is closing his presentation to journalists at a PlayStation Vita event in London. We are pleased to share the news from that presentation with our readers.

PS Vita Launch Line-up

We can confirm that the following first party games will be available on 22 February 2012, when PlayStation Vita launches across PAL:

• Uncharted: Golden Abyss
• WipEout 2048
• Reality Fighters
• Little Deviants
• ModNation Racers: Road Trip
• Everybody's Golf
• Escape Plan
• Gravity Rush
• Hustle Kings
• MotorStorm RC
• Top Darts
• Super StarDust Delta

Additionally, the following games are in development:

Army Corps of Hell, Square Enix; Asphalt: Injection, Ubisoft; Disgaea 3 Return, NIS America; Dungeon Hunter: Alliance, Ubisoft; Dynasty Warriors Next, Tecmo Koei; EA Sports FIFA Football, EA; F1 2011, Codemasters; Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7, WB Games; Lumines Electronic Symphony, Ubisoft; Michael Jackson: The Experience HD, Ubisoft; Ninja Gaiden (working title), Tecmo Koei; OddWorld: Strangers Wrath, OddWorld Inhabitants; Puddle, Neko Entertainment; Pure Chess, RebelPlay; Putty Squad Vita, System 3; Rayman Origins, Ubisoft; Ridge Racer, Bandai Namco; Shinobido 2, Bandai Namco; Silent Hill: Book of Memories, Konami; Stardrone Extreme, BeatShapers; Super Monkey Ball Banana Splitz, SEGA; Supremacy MMA, 505 Games; Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack, Drinkbox Studios; The Treasures of Montezuma Blitz, Alawar Entertainment; Touch My Katamari, Bandai Namco; Troopies, Bloober Team; Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom, Capcom; Urban Trials, Tate Multimedia; Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour Edition, SEGA; Orc Attack, Casual Brothers; Ben 10 Galactic Racing, Bandai Entertainment; Dragon's Racing, Ignition Entertainment; Robot Rescue Revolution, Teyon; Mortal Kombat, WB Games; Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft; Bioshock, Take Two; Street Fighter X Tekken, Capcom; Call of Duty, Activision Blizzard.

Unit 13 Coming from Zipper Interactive

It was revealed that the developer of MAG and the SOCOM series is working on a third-person shooter called Unit 13, to be released around the launch window of PS Vita.

Evolution Studios' MotorStorm RC Revealed

Yet another new title coming to PS Vita and PS3 and playable at today's event, MotorStorm RC blends old-school remote control and contemporary racing gameplay. Cross Play lets PS Vita and PS3 players to compete.

Social Essentials Shown

We learned that http://www.flickr.com/photos/playstationblogeurope/ is joining Twitter, Facebook and FourSquare in Social Essentials, PS Vita's gateway into the most popular social media channels, and they were available to test at the London event. We'll be showing you exactly how to Like, Tweet, Tag and all the rest here soon.

Augmented Reality Markers

Augmented Reality is one of the directions open to PlayStation Vita developers and it was announced that six Augmented Reality markers will be available at launch, with three games available to download for free from PlayStation Store. To see how these are going to be used, we saw this AR technology video:

We hope this news gets you even more excited about PlayStation Vita and we can't wait to hear what you think when you get your hands around it on 22 February 2012.

In the meantime, we're going to do our best to show you what it can do and hint at the possibilities for the future.



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[landon]

Just wow

[Tek9]

I can't wait to get my PS vita 1 week early already got it reserved i will play the little deviants until feb 22 then i will get golden abyss and resistance and whatever else is good. Unit 13 looks great also

[GTluver]

That last 1 on the list is all im looking forward to ....

[Foo]

I'll give you guys the list:

BLAZBLUE　CONTINUUM SHIFT EXTEND
ULTIMATE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3
真・三國無双 NEXT
F1 2011™
ASPHALT：INJECTION
麻雀格闘倶楽部　新生・全国対戦版
地獄の軍団
ロード オブ アポカリプス (Lord Of Apocalypse)
                忍道2 散華 (ShinoBido 2)
                パワースマッシュ4 (Power Smash 4)
アンチャーテッド -地図なき冒険の始まり- (One of the Uncharted games... I can't read Japanese)
みんなのGOLF 6 (Hot Shots Golf 6)
モンスターレーダー (Monster Radar)
                真かまいたちの夜　11人目の訪問者（サスペクト） (Shinkama?)
                ドリームクラブZERO ポータブル (Dream Club Zero Portable (the girls are hot ;)))
魔界戦記ディスガイア３ Return
                塊魂　ノ・ビ〜タ (Katamari <<<<<33333)
                リッジレーサー (Ridgeracer)
ダーク クエスト アライアンス (Dark Quest: Alliance)
マイケル・ジャクソン ザ・エクスペリエンスHD (Micheal Jackson: The Experience HD) (Dear god... :()
                WipEout®2048
                テイルズ オブ イノセンス R (Tales of Innocence)

Nothing the good 'ole Playstation Japan can't tell ya

AND that was only games...

[HeyManHRU]

There always has to be a Golf game for every launch console.

[Neo Cyrus]

I'm looking forward to BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend (would it kill to use proper grammar?). From what I gather it will also be released on the PS3 and 360 on the 17th of December. Sadly no foreign release dates have been mentioned yet.