Based on a series of leaks, Sony's NGP will be officially named the Playstation Vita (Vita means life in Italian) and PS Vita as the short name.
The leaks came due to a new domain for the developer website of the portable recently was registered as "vita.scedev.net" to go along with the previously registered NGP domain. Another source ended up being two blogs which had some ties to sources inside of Sony leaked more stuff about PS Vita but was taken down by Sony and forced to issue an apology.
According to some developers, the portable was never meant to be named NGP nor was that ever its codename because Vita was the actual codename with Sony also leaning it becoming the official name. The reason the NGP was leaked as the name is due to Sony forgetting to give an official name and told the press its name was NGP.
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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.
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Also leaked was Uncharted for the NGP will be named Uncharted: Golden Abyss and be hyped as the big title for the launch.
The official specs for the system are still unknown but based on recent reports, Sony has been removing and lowering some of the power for the cheaper model while keeping the regular specs for the more expensive model. The operating system, RAM, and CPU have been rumored to be cut by 50% while the harddrive rumored at 16 GB has been removed for the base model.
Sony's official stance regarding the leaks and the name is to not believe what is being posted on the internet but like every Sony leak that ends up real, the company also didn't deny the leaks were fake.
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