{"id":29678,"date":"2011-12-18T02:38:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T00:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=29678"},"modified":"2012-02-02T17:28:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T15:28:16","slug":"sony-playstation-vita-launches-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/29678-sony-playstation-vita-launches-in-japan","title":{"rendered":"Sony PlayStation Vita launches in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony is predicting brisk sales, even though Saturday&#8217;s launch may have missed some holiday shoppers. A successful debut would help the company offset the rest of its struggling business.<\/p>\n<p>The device is a touch-interface and motion-sensitive handheld seen as a successor to the PlayStation Portable. Vita&#8217;s launch will heat up competition with rival Nintendo Co.&#8217;s 3DS.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the purchasers Saturday had made advance orders on the Internet so they can start playing immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The PS Vita goes on sale in North America, Europe and South Africa on Feb. 22.Source: Sapa-AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s long-awaited PlayStation Vita portable game machine has hit stores in Japan as thousands of game enthusiasts lined up at shops from early in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":26273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,2226],"tags":[1643,527,71],"class_list":["post-29678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-hardware","category-mobile","tag-playstation-vita","tag-ps-vita","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29679,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29678\/revisions\/29679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}