With only a few weeks to go until the PlayStation Vita launches in Europe, retailers are starting to lure customers with pre-order offers. Amazon.co.uk are enticing gamers with a very attractive offer, giving away a 8GB memory card for free and one of six games for £15. If you already pre-ordered from Amazon, don’t worry – you are entitled to the same offer.
If you have pre-ordered your PlayStation Vita already, you may be interested in knowing how much the games are going to cost you. The folks over at TheSixthAxis have compiled a list of retail prices for the UK launch line-up. Of course, these are just the guide price so you may be able to find some of the games for cheaper.
Sony and AT&T have revealed the price plans that will be available to US owners of the 3G-enabled Vita. Originally, a 2GB data plan was announced for $25 per month, but this has now been replaced with a new 3GB data plan for $30 per month. A cheaper plan for $15 per month offers only 250MB of data.
If you are still deciding what size memory card to get for your PlayStation Vita, the below information may help you decide. We’ve collected information on various PS Vita titles to see how much space each one takes if downloaded from the PlayStation Store. In short – the bigger the memory card, the better.
If you are still undecided about getting a PlayStation Vita, you can now try the portable console out in GAME and Gamestation station stores across the UK (over 600 stores combined). Yesterday, I was able to play Uncharted: Golden Abyss at a Gamestation store in Coventry city.
With less than a month to go until the launch of PlayStation Vita, Sony have announced two PS Vita 3G/WiFi bundles. If you were one of the lucky consumers to pre order the PS Vita First Edition Bundle, you will get all the bonuses previously announced, but Sony will also include an AT&T DataConnect Pass good for one free 250MB session, and a PlayStation Network game.
As you may have heard during today’s Sony Electronics press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, PlayStation and Netflix are teaming up again to bring tens of thousands of hours of movies and TV episodes from Netflix to the PS Vita for US customers.
This week’s Japanese hardware sales charts show that the brand new PS Vita has sold only 42,648 units in the last week. That’s actually less units than the PSP sold (62,746 units to be exact) and considerably less than the 3DS (which moved nearly 200,000 machines).
The Final Fantasy X remake was originally announced back at the Tokyo Game Show in September 2011. According to Yoshinori Kitase, a producer for the original FFX, the PS3 and PlayStation Vita versions will be more than just a HD remaster – the game will be completely remade.
Sony has released Firmware update v1.51 for the PlayStation Vita to fix the freezing bugs experienced by some users. The Japanese PlayStation website doesn’t mention specific details for the update, except that it may be required to play certain games and when accessing PlayStation Network features.
