The PlayStation Vita (officially abbreviated PS Vita) is a handheld game console by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to the PlayStation Portable as part of the PlayStation brand of gaming devices. It was released in Japan and parts of Asia on December 17, 2011 and is expected to be released in Europe, Latin and North America on February 22, 2012 and in Australia on February 23, 2012. A limited edition was released in North America on February 15, 2012 a week earlier than the official launch with the 3G model of the device, the game Little Deviants, a limited edition carry case and a 4GB memory card.

The handheld includes two analogue sticks, a 5-inch (130 mm) OLED multi-touch capacitive touchscreen, and supports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and optional 3G. Internally, the Vita features a 4-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor and a 4-core SGX543MP4+ graphics processing unit, as well as LiveArea software as its main user interface, which succeeds the XrossMediaBar.