During the SCEJ press conference, Sony announced a new PlayStation Vita model. The newest model will be 20% thinner and 15% lighter and will be dropping the OLED screen for a 5in LCD screen. With these changes, the battery life will be improved by roughly an hour. The system will also feature 1gb of internal memory.

Also included with this announcement was the reveal of a new 64 GB memory card.

The new Vita will release on October 10th in Japan for 18,980 Yen and will come in 6 different color. This being a Japanese focused press conference means there was no word on this model for other regions. We will update this post if news on other regions arrives.