Rumour – NGP to be called PS Vita

Worst name ever. I’m sorry. This is even worse then Kinect or Project Natal.

Whats wrong with PSP 2/ Playstation Portable 2? Even their crap like Xperia Play have a really good brand name.

PS Vita sounds like a new low fat kind of yogurt, not what is supposed to be most powerful portable on the market.

PSP2 is good, NGP is good, PSP Next is good, but Vita is horrible, god damn it Sony think for once!

“PS Vita sounds like a new low fat kind of yogurt”

Haha for me it sounds like a new perfume

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Let’s take this news with a grain of salt, shall we?

Yet another terrible name, I do hope no-one got paid a lot coming up with it

Could also be targeted disinformation prior to the official E3 announcement.

Why not name it “PS ORGY”…. “it will melt in ya mouth not in ya hands”…

Vita is just a weird name for a handheld gaming device. But then again, they named their music service “Qriocity”, so I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised if the rumours are true.

@4 – Heh. The only reason they didn’t call it Arc was because there was a trademark issue they couldn’t resolve, so they changed it. Move’s library files were even called Arc when it launched. I promise you, it was called Arc.

As for Vita, as I said on the forum, Vita was a codename used for the NGP dev kit. Not sure why it’s popped up now, but I haven’t seen this used for ages. Developers called it Vita back before it was announced.

I don’t see the problem. Sure, it doesn’t say anything about the platform, but that doesn’t really matter, does it? I play games; I couldn’t care less about the name.

Call it PS V. what does the V stand for? Don’t know but sound cool.

Vita?
OMG

Worst name for video game hardware ever. EVER!

@11 PS 5!! (if you think about it the fifth sony main gaming device)

anyway sony seem try to capture casual market by using casual name

Wii is still the worst name, even if we all got used to it.

PSV = PlayStation 5, which is sequentially logical since PSP came out after PS3…

@ Goffee

Nope, the PSP launched a year and a half before the PS3.

PSP – December 2004 Japan, March 2005 US, September 2005 Europe
PS3 – November 2006 all regions

This is pretty terrible. Wii still stands up as the worst name ever for me though.

vita in italian means life
have some respect you English scum
this language witch u type have stole all the culture from the latins
and im not talking abut Mexicans
just look at your name British Britannia hahaha barbers that got a name thanks to romans
and to day they see vita as an ugly name lmao
wow paradox is really out of control this days

Don’ t you like vita? Ok, i wanted psp2(or even ngp) too, but i really don’t understand how you can prefer really stupid names like xbox, gamecube, megadrive etc(the same for games and movies too).
In countries where english isn’t the main language people buy these products without thinking about the name meaning, but you?
Don’t you feel really stupid asking for a “xbox”, a “megadrive” etc?

What? The Vita?!

Wasnt the damn thing Codename VITA before it was even announced?

Also If this is the Vita then me Might not get a PS4, but a PS”Something”

@18

1. Not all vg247 members are British
2. Some of us were unfortunate enough to learn latin in school and know the meaning of vita.
3. Those who didn’t most likely picked up the meaning by playing RPGs like FF
4. English is a West Germanic language
5. The name Britannia comes from Prettanike which is greek
6. Barbarians is again a greek term applying to everything non-greek and while it includes Brits it doesn’t specifically refer to them
7. Vita has nothing to do with games and is a terrible name for a videogame console

Not only is Vita a bad name for Sony’s PSP2……….but it’s also too similar to Vista.

Gosh such rampant dweebism

No Vita on its own has nothing to do with games, neither does the number 360, until of course major companies use them as names for their videogame systems, then they become very much *game related*

You gotta love the guys who prefer a collection of letters & numbers too. They’d probably prefer The Statue of Liberty to be known as NY 10004-1467

@23 For reals. They clearly have castrated monkeys naming their shit these days.

Master System! Megadrive! Those are names you can get behind.

I want a console that’s like “Super Awesome Mega Performance Gameshredding Machine Device”!

No seriously, I want that. Metrosexuality out of gaming, yesterday please.

Megadrive or Gamecube were among the better ones,

at least it wasn’t something mundane like Playstation or Nintendo64. Ohh I bet it took them ages to make those ones up.

^ Game & Cube? Really? The ‘Cube’ that plays ‘Games’?

It was a cube.

Did someone ever make a Hellraiser casemod for that thing?

If not, for shame!

It was a simple yet fun reference to it’s form.

“Company name Entertainment System’ takes zero effort, as well as putting together ‘Play’ and “station’, the latter is like naming the thing ‘Playgadget’ ot ‘Playmachine’. Xbox was named after the DirectX, which is a lazy way of naming too.

if sony will like to call it “Life” why not do it by the name “seikatsu” which is the japanese translation, at least it will make more sense.

Because most people outside of Japan couldn’t make any connections with a name like that.
In any case this discussion is a bit moot, considering that it probably won’t be called Vita anyway.