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At Vita’s Launch: a special report from Tokyo
Sony execs Kaz Hirai and Andrew House attended an early-morning event in Tokyo yesterday to mark the launch of its sparkly new PlayStation Vita handheld. The console went on sale in Japan at 7am on Saturday 17th December at stores around the capital, but it was the countdown event at Tsutaya’s flagship store in Shibuya that drew the Sony bigwigs – and the world’s first officially acknowledged purchasers of a PlayStation Vita. “I feel cold and tired and I want to throw up,” the first person in the queue told Eurogamer, saying that he’d waited since 7pm the previous night in the bitter cold. Declining to give his name, this bespectacled otaku went on to become the world’s first Vita owner. Read more…
