{"id":14664,"date":"2011-10-12T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"playstation-vita-game-pricing-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14664-playstation-vita-game-pricing-emerges","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Vita game pricing emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony Computer Entertainment has announced the pricing on games for its upcoming portable console, the PlayStation Vita.<\/p>\n

The device will ship in the US for US$250, and a local retail price has yet to be confirmed by Sony.<\/p>\n

In Japan, Vita well sell for ¥25,000, which works out to around US$326.<\/p>\n

Japanese site Famitsu<\/a> has published pricing details for Vita games, listing Uncharted: Golden Abyss at ¥5,980 for the cartridge version and ¥4,900 for the download version.<\/p>\n

That works out to about $78 and $63 each, which has led many to assume that the games will sell for $59, while the download version will cost $49, which is pretty much in line with what retailers charge for console games.<\/p>\n

From this we can infer that PS Vita games will cost roughly the same as regular console games.<\/p>\n

There are, however, other games listed for less, such as Ridge Racer which will cost ¥3,980 for the cartridge version and ¥3,580 for the download version. This puts them closer to the $40 mark.<\/p>\n

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While no US or Europe prices have been confirmed for the Vita, Sony has previously confirmed that the games will be region-free, which means that it will be possible to buy games in the US and play them on a Vita bought from a PAL region, such as Europe or South Africa.<\/p>\n

It also means that we will be able to import games from anywhere in the world, which may keep prices across different regions in line with each other.<\/p>\n

We contacted local Sony distributor Ster Kinekor for comment, but they did not get back to us by the time of publication.<\/p>\n

PlayStation Vita game pricing emerges<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AAA PS Vita games priced in line with console games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}