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Next Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA is an upcoming rhythm game created by SEGA and Crypton Future Media. The game is the fifth game in the Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA game series and will be released on the PlayStation Vita in 2012 and on the PlayStation3 in 2013. It will be the first game in the series to be multi-platform and to be released for the PlayStation Vita. It is unknown if the game will receive an international release.

Gameplay
The game will retain the same basic gameplay mechanics from the rest of the games from the Project DIVA series. However, it will have several new changes. Such changes are:
 * A "Star" symbol will be added to the games exsisting cross, circle, square, triangle and arrow symbols. The symbol will represent the new "Scratch" move in which players simply have to rub the screen instead of pressing the face buttons as usual. Also, the location on the screen where the players rub does not matter.
 * "Chance Time" will now be activated by the player. This can only occur when the gauge on the lower left of the screen becomes filled and turns into a star shape.
 * A new mechanic called the "Technical Zone" will be added in which during a song players can connect combos within the time limit and earn bonus points.
 * There will be improvements in the animations of the characthers such as smoother hair movements for Miku"s hair and Rin's bow's. The game will also feature improved facial expressions and lighting with real-time lighting computation being added to the game.

Development
Development for the game first began in 2011 before the previous sequel in the series Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Extend. The game is jointly developed by the development teams behind the PlayStation Portable games in the series as well as the team behind the Arcade game in the series. On Christmas Day 2011, Sega released a teaser video on Youtube with footage of Hatsune Miku singing two different songs and the words "Coming 2012" at the end of the trailer. Later on April 9, 2012, Sega posted a teaser site online announcing that they would be revealing the next game in the Project DIVA series on April 12, 2012

The game was officially revealed on April 12, 2012 as a multiplatform game for both the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3 making the series' official debut on both platforms, not counting Dreamy Theater softwares for the PS3 since they were not actual full games for the console. Development will be focused on the PlayStation Vita first before being shifted over to the PlayStation 3 at the later part of its development cycle and hence the Vita version being released earlier in 2012 with the PS3 version being released in 2013.