Gallery: Sony Will Launch PlayStation Vita Dec. 17 in Japan

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    *Sony's Hiroshi Kawano demonstrates a PlayStation Vita at the company's Tokyo Game Show press conference Wednesday.*
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    *Sony will launch 26 games with PlayStation Vita in Japan.*
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    *PlayStation Vita will launch in Japan on December 17, Sony said Wednesday in Tokyo.*
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    *Sony says that over 100 games are currently in development for PS Vita.*
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    *Hiroshi Kawano, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan, and Andrew House, president and group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., pose with the PlayStation Vita, which was detailed at a news conference in Tokyo, Japan on September 14, 2011.*
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    *Kenjo Akiyama, director of the development support department at Sony Computer Entertainment Japan, demonstrates one of the on-board features of PlayStation Vita.*
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    *Yoshinori Ono, deputy head of the consumer games R&D division at Capcom, announced* Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 *for PS Vita on Wednesday.*
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    *Shinji Hashimoto of Square Enix announced three new games for PlayStation Vita, including* Lord of Apocalypse*.*
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    *Hideo Kojima, creator of* Metal Gear Solid*, took the stage at Sony's conference to announce that his HD remakes of classic games will be coming to PlayStation Vita.*
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    *Seiji Sugimoto, president of Niwango, shows how PlayStation Vita will eventually be used with the video service Nico Nico Douga in Japan to allow users to live-stream their gameplay.*
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