This week's biggest news is about something quite small: the
Sony PS Vita, which went on sale in the UK this week and was
topping Amazon's charts before a single unit had shipped.  It's
a serious bit of kit. As you'll discover in our in-depth Sony PS
Vita review, Sony's handheld console is "the most powerful,
dazzling and impressive handheld games console ever built" with
"not one but two quad-core processors, a sparkling 5-inch
touchscreen OLED display, dual analogue stick controls and games
that go way beyond what any other portable device is currently
capable of."  Is it better than a 3DS? You betcha: it's "a beast
among men", apparently.  Will anybody buy one? That's a very
good question. "It's a luxury item launching post-Christmas into
a Western world ravaged by recession, and further hindered by
Sony's desperate need to make money at a time when the strength
of the Yen makes Japanese products very pricey."  But around
12.4 million PlayStation Vita handhelds will be sold in 2012,
according to a forecast