Sony to launch new model of PlayStation

Sony has announced that it will put its brand new handheld game machine the PlayStation Vita on sale for the first time starting Dec 17.That’s good news for gamers in Japan, which is where Sony will first launch its powerful and unusual gadget which comes with touch-enabled screens on both the front and the back sides. North American and European gamers, however, will have to wait a bit longer to find out when, exactly, they can get their hands on Vita.Sony unveiled the Vitas Japanese launch date early Wednesday as the Tokyo Game Show got under way. The company also announced that 26 games will be available for the machine on the day it launches and that an additional 74 games are in the works. And Sony claims this launch line-up is the biggest for a new game machine ever.