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Transfer your PSP UMD Games to Vita
Announced in Japan today, the UMD Passport program will allow you to download digital copies of your PlayStation Portable games onto the Vita. This is good. But like all good things in life, it comes at a price.
To do this, you start by downloading the UMD Registration App onto your PSP, booting it up from the XMB Menu, and inserting the UMD you want to register. After this, you simply follow the on-screen instructions to help you register the UMD with your PSN account. After this is complete, you’ll be able to download the digital version of that game at a discounted price.
How much of a discount you ask?
According to the Japanese PlayStation Vita website, the Passport program lists support of around 200 games from 40 companies on launch day, which is the 6th of December in Japan. Pricing on that list varies from 500 yen (£4) to 1500 yen (£12) (roughly between $6.50 and $19.50 US).
Ouch. That doesn’t feel like a discount.
Additionally, you have the option to download direct to your Vita, or to your PS3, then over to Vita.
Honestly, I can’t ultimately decide how I feel upon hearing this, though I’m leaning towards non-approval. I would absolutely LOVE to take Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Burnout: Legends with me onto my Vita, but I don’t see myself paying quite that much to have them transferred. In fact, I don’t see myself spending anything for something like that, especially since I bought them new.
It’s good that Sony is thinking of those of us who supported the PSP, but is that enough of a discount to convince gamers to transfer? Do any of you plan on doing this for your treasured PSP games?
[via EuroGamer]
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I think its actually pretty good all things considered. Sony were never going to give the old games away for free and £12 is a pretty significant discount considering all the games will have been out a while and should be cheaper anyway.
I know its a bit annoying having to buy the same game twice but it could be argued that you could just play the old games on your old PSP
That’s just ridiculous!!! Sony you just keep getting worse. I mean your customer service is shit as it is. If I bought the blasted game I should be able to register it and get it for free and not pay anything. Did they not learn anything the last time the PSN went down due to Anonymous. They are just asking for more hackers to breach their accounts and actually steal money and stuff!!!
Well, transfering games from the psp to the vita is not exactly giving the old games away, making gamers pay for transfering is like charging them twice for a single game, which I think is a bad bad deal. I would never pay for that~
To be quite honest, I understand the whole reason behind this method of “Transfer” and I think others will too. The cost to download the game to the Vita is due to the fact that UMD games do not have a key/serial locking the game to one owner. If you think about this reason, Sony don’t want people to swap UMD’s with friends to get a free title on their Vita. If so, it would mean a huge loss of software profit.
The cost is not bad considering the cost for other older system games that all the consoles sell (Ex. NES, Genesis, PS1, etc.
What a joke. Im expected to pay even more for the game i already own? There should be a fee for the transfering software and that is all.
Ok, backwards support is not required on a console. If you dont get ps2 games and a ps3 and you dont get xbox games on a 360, why should you play umds on vita… If you really want it that badly, here is the answer.
Its like sony is encouraging piracy lol
i agree if sony is going to be doing this, it will bring more piracy. As it was they were doing that with the psp. So if they were doing it with that, then there surely going to do it with this console.