If you currently own a PSP and have a collection of games that are on UMD discs, we’ve got some good news for you. You’ll be able to play most of those games on the PlayStation Vita when it goes on sale. While the Vita doesn’t have a drive for you to insert your UMD games, Sony will be launching the UMD Passport program that will let you download your UMD games at a discounted price from the PlayStation Network.
Sony will be releasing a PSP app that registers your UMD games (each UMD can only be registered to one PSN account, so you won’t be able to share games with your friends for multiple discounts). After registering the title via the app, you will be granted a discount when you repurchase the game from the PSN (the discounted games should cost between $6 to $13). Sony hopes to make the system compatible with roughly 200 titles by the program’s launch (December 6th in Japan). What do you think of this UMD Passport program?
Here are a few facts that we have established concernign the PS Vita – it will be region-free (although that means the burden of learning a new language now lies in your hands), it will come with an external battery pack, and it has been confirmed to roll out this coming December 17th in Japan. You can add another item to the bucket list – the PS Vita will be able to communicate with its older cousin, the PSP, via ad-hoc mode.
This means early adopters to Sony’s latest portable console need not worry about not being able to communicate with one another, thansk to the Wi-Fi Ad-Hoc mode. You can even download similar games on either machine, enjoy a session of gaming in ad-hoc mode after that followed by downing a pint of booze. Too bad there just aren’t too many ad-hoc games which are available to those living Stateside compared to Japan.
Will you be an early adopter of the PS Vita?
Instead of announcing more news about the upcoming PlayStation Vita, Sony decided to announce the launch of a new PlayStation Portable: the PSP E-1000 at Gamescon today. Designed for folks on a budget, the PSP E-1000 will only be available in Europe and will cost 99 Euros. It functions just like a regular PSP with one major caveat: it won’t have any WiFi connectivity. Games will be played on the E-1000 through UMDs or transferred from the PlayStation Store via Medi Go using a computer.
a Go using a computer.
With a large catalog of PSP games available for purchase, it looks like Sony doesn’t want it to disappear by letting folks get their hands on a cheaper, inexpensive console to play them on. Following the budget theme, Sony will also be releasing a new rage of PSP Essential titles: basically games with a budget price tagged on (9.99 Euros).
While it does sound like a good idea, crippling the device by removing its WiFi is going to have a lot of folks complaining. No internet surfing, multiplayer gaming or even downloading games straight onto the device itself. I guess some people can live with that, but is the exclusion of a WiFi radio really worth the low price tag? What do you guys think?
In May the representatives of Sony announced that the release of PSP-phone was quite possible, but in «Nikkei business daily» newspaper it was mentioned that during the following month Sony is planning to collect a special group of people to work on the draft device combining PSP and Sony Ericsson Phone.
There is sense in all this, because if the developer’s attempts succeed, Nintendo and iPhone will have a new competitor, the one they would really have to take into consideration. Unfortunately, as Sony is only planning to begin working on a project, we will not be able to see the result very soon. Reuters reports that Sony refused to comment on the Nikkei’s statement, which already means something.
Sony PLAYSTATION Portable PSP – one of the recognized world leader in the mobile gaming consoles market. Millions of fans of the game selected the psp because of the high-quality of graphics, reliability, simplicity and ability to play virtually anywhere.
A distinctive feature of psp and psp slim & light (even a miniature version of psp) is the graphics quality, comparable to desktop gaming PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 (ps3). It’s no wonder that Sony, the developer of psp, is a recognized world leader in digital television, graphics and gaming applications.
An important quality of psp is its versatility. Tired of psp-games? No problem – go, listen to audio clips, watch videos, go to the internet via the existing Wi-Fi connection, read news, download from the Internet a new psp-game or software for the psp. Up to eight hours of uninterrupted work offline – play in the subway or bus, listen to music over lunch, watch the video in the queue and razvlekate himself at any time, in the most unexpected places! And vice versa – in appropriate circumstances, you can connect the psp-console to your TV and play with high resolution.
So, you have opted for a mobile game console, psp or a psp-slim, or are interested in purchasing the game consoles, for example, ps3, xbox 360, wii. Perhaps you need a game for the psp or software for psp-slim. But how to make the right choice and buy a really high quality product that meets all the requirements? How to protect yourself from cheap imitations, irresponsible vendors, lack of adequate safeguards to repair psp? Answer these questions can be quite simple since numerous websites provide reviews for such cases. For example TestFreaks rated the PSP 6.5 out of 10 .
The data of the new portable game console Sony PSP Go is not a secret anymore, but we decided to wait for the official presentation of the gadget at E3, and to convey to you only accurate information directly from the manufacturer.
So, Sony PSP Go was demonstrated at E3, where Haz Kirai (one of the directors of Sony) called the console “the worst protected secret.” The device is made in the slider form factor, has 3.8-inch screen, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi adapters, as well as 16 GB of internal memory. The new model is 40 per cent lighter than the original PSP-1000 probably due to a lack of UMD-drive. Games now are loaded from memory cards or Memory Stick Micro, or an online service PlayStation Network.
Despite the fact that the UMD is no longer in use, the price of the console has not declined and is 249 dollars, and the sale will begin from October 1, in America and Europe, and from 1 November in Japan.
Formal specifications for Sony PSP Go :
• dimensions – 128h16, 5h69 mm;
• Weight with battery – 160 grams;
• frequency of 333 MHz processor;
• 3.8-inch display with a resolution 480h272 pixel;
• Built-in stereo speakers and microphone;
• Wireless Adapters Wi-Fi 802.11b and Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR;
• The USB 2.0;
• slot for memory cards Memory Stick Micro;
• analog video output;
• 16 GB internal memory.
