I probably spent too much of lazy BBQ with friends yesterday afternoon poking around on my phone about PlayStation Vita, allegedly the final name for the ugly-sounding Next-Generation Portable (NGP), but it all sounded like a bunch of nonsense.

Vita? Really? But I can tell you there's reason to suspect it's the final name.

The rumors started when Games Pundit cited an anonymous source telling them Sony would announce NGP's final name at E3 next week: Vita. Most shrugged their shoulders, but some legitimate-looking presentation images leaked on another blog, Mega Rock. That blog's since taken itself down. Too late, though.

There's more circumstantial evidence. Try pointing your browser towards vita.scedev.net, which leads you to Sony's developer portal--ngp.scedev.net works, too. psp2.scedev.net leads to a browser error, however, which means the subdomains were made legitimate by Sony.

Someone also registered playstationvita.com and psvita.com on April 19, long before rumors.

I've talked to several developer sources, all of whom asked to remain anonymous, as E3 is so close. But each confirmed Vita was definitely the codename for the project when Sony was first showing the hardware to developers. One developer said his company has stopped referring to the machine as Vita, preferring NGP or PSP2, but was unclear if Vita had been dropped.

When Sony revealed its next portable in January, it was not supposed to have "NGP" attached, I'm told. Sony was unable to find internal consensus on a final name, so the event grudgingly went ahead with something temporary. At the time, however, it was being referred to internally as Vita.

None of my sources were able to say with complete certainty whether Vita has stuck and that's the name that'll appear at Sony's press conference next week. But don't be surprised if it does.

I probably spent too much of lazy BBQ with friends yesterday afternoon poking around on my phone about PlayStation Vita, allegedly the final name for the ugly-sounding Next-Generation Portable (NGP), but it all sounded like a bunch of nonsense.

Vita? Really? But I can tell you there's reason to suspect it's the final name.

The rumors started when Games Pundit cited an anonymous source telling them Sony would announce NGP's final name at E3 next week: Vita. Most shrugged their shoulders, but some legitimate-looking presentation images leaked on another blog, Mega Rock. That blog's since taken itself down. Too late, though.

There's more circumstantial evidence. Try pointing your browser towards vita.scedev.net, which leads you to Sony's developer portal--ngp.scedev.net works, too. psp2.scedev.net leads to a browser error, however, which means the subdomains were made legitimate by Sony.

Someone also registered playstationvita.com and psvita.com on April 19, long before rumors.

I've talked to several developer sources, all of whom asked to remain anonymous, as E3 is so close. But each confirmed Vita was definitely the codename for the project when Sony was first showing the hardware to developers. One developer said his company has stopped referring to the machine as Vita, preferring NGP or PSP2, but was unclear if Vita had been dropped.

When Sony revealed its next portable in January, it was not supposed to have "NGP" attached, I'm told. Sony was unable to find internal consensus on a final name, so the event grudgingly went ahead with something temporary. At the time, however, it was being referred to internally as Vita.

None of my sources were able to say with complete certainty whether Vita has stuck and that's the name that'll appear at Sony's press conference next week. But don't be surprised if it does.

Nice name.

stupid name 

I want one. I know I got burnt on the PSP but blerggh.

horrible name if you ask me.

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Better than "Next Gen Portable", a name that would mean literally nothing after its successor is unveiled. 

Better than PSP2.

nothing will ever top revolution to wii. God I still can't believe it.

Honestly I didn't mind  "NGP"   I mean  Its about on the same level of stupid as  "MAG" in terms of naming shit  and that did alright.

Vee-tah or VI-tah?

Yeah, I could see smothering nachos in that. But for some reason I don't want to eat it.

Bad name. Just call it PSP2!

Is it "Vee-ta" or "Veye-ta" or "Vie-ta"?

What's in a name these days, anyway? I mean, if the hardware is great - no one will care what it's called. People thought the iPad was a terrible name when it was first announced too. 

Vita smacks of someone hiring in a team who gets paid thousands upon thousands of dollars to come up with a name, and so feel they have to choose something stupid to justify the money.

vita? as in "v-eye-ta"?

It is a weird name for a portable device and a playstation device at that. I agree it shouldn't be PSP2 or NGP, but Vita is... I dont know but it doesn't fit a portable device.

Sounds like a healthy yoghurt. 

Guess I'll have to think up a new name for my homemade brand of posh vitamin water.

I'll never understand the appeal of this system.

Don't mind the abbreviation "PSV" to be honet.

Awful name...however the depth of research and tracking down on this lead is pretty intense. I admire and love the dedication.

they should call it P2P and release it together with F3ar and Thi4f

Whatever. I'm going to stick with iOS for the foreseeable future.

PS Vagina

What a racist name!!! Vita in swedish means "the white", I always knew those dirty japs were racist.

I can't wait to access the Qriocity service on my Vita and tell my friends about it through my Xperia phone. 
 
I swear, I want to take this butter knife right next to me and shove it real deep into the eyes of each and every person who works at Sony Marketing and comes up with these fucking horseshit names.

vita is a dumb name

As usual, Sony's "keep this a secret" department has more holes then the security department :P

Personal Manager: "So, you applied for this job in our lovely company. First, show me your vita!" 
Mike van Dude: "Yo, check it out, it plays vidja games. Cool, amirite?
Personal Manager: *shoots himself*

velvita?

it'll be shortened to PSV and that doesn't sound bad to me. PlayStation Vita is a little close to Microsoft Vista but PSV is fine.

Interesting

The NGP's original codename was in fact "Veta" not "Vita"

Two weeks after E3 nobody will care about the name.  It's always funny to see the initial reactions to things like this. Eventually it's not a big deal.

Sony's game division branding team should be sacked, all of them.

It looks the same as PSP and the name is terrible...just awful..

Nothing about the system really excites me, but I kinda like the name Vita. It's short and unique.

sounds like a kitchen appliance for some reason

The word vita is mostly used for medical products here in Germany, or maybe Vita-Cola, which has vitamin c in it. So pretty weird to me, but I guess latin is not a bad way to go about it.
 
edit: Oh and PSV is a dutch football team :>

That is the worst name for a Sony system I have ever herd and stands proudly with WII in post 1980's and 1990 list of suck ass names, these people better be wrong and if they are not there is still time to cover it up. it has two names now playstation and your crap new name attached to it, you should have just called it playatation and stuffed another number or function of it after it like you was before.
 
Once again sony you rip off nintendo and there newly found as of 2006cs ablity of giving crap names to things. 
 
Keep going sony and you might catch up with some of the worst named video game products of the 1980's 
 
 
and nice job making the system look bent like it was stepped on in that picture, I hope it looks as busted when  I buy it. 
 
OH ya and your first plyatation pocket name sounded much better than playatation portable you should have fucking kept that for the PSP/.

I'm going to laugh when this isn't the final name or I'm going to laugh when this is the final name. 

PSV. Makes sense.

VITA! 
WHAT DOES THE SCOUTER SAY ABOUT HIS POWER LEVEL?!

I think Jack Tretton and Kaz Hirai both need to step down. Things are beyond ridiculous.

At least the Sony Experia Play shortens to SEXPlay and has a catchy, if terrible, name. The Vita would be like the Wii all over again.