{"id":15507,"date":"2011-11-11T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"psp-games-on-vita-are-going-to-cost-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15507-psp-games-on-vita-are-going-to-cost-you","title":{"rendered":"PSP games on Vita are going to cost you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11859-Sony-Computer-Entertainment\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Sony<\/a> has announced that it will be possible to download games that you already own for <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19916-Playstation-Portable-%28PSP%29\" target=\"_self\" title=\"System Information\">PSP<\/a> to your <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19922-Playstation-Vita-%28PSVita%29\" target=\"_self\" title=\"System Information\">Vita<\/a> console, although you will require a &#8220;UMD Passport&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In order to get one of these you will have to download a UMD registration application off the PlayStation Store to your PSP.<\/p>\n<p>You then boot up the application in the PSP, insert the UMD you want to register, and presto, you can download your PSP game to your Vita console.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and you will have to pay between &pound;4 and &pound;12 per game.<\/p>\n<p>Local pricing remains to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The UMD passport supports roughly 200 games from 40 different companies at launch, including the likes of Gran Turismo, and pricing varies from game to game.<\/p>\n<p>The PlayStation Vita is expected to sell in SA for roughly R3300, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/15058-Vita-South-African-pricing-surfaces.html\" target=\"_self\">according to Kalahari.com<\/a>, we can expect it to arrive in early 2012.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/PSVITA_front_back_443784275.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20599-You-ll-have-to-pay-to-play-PSP-games-on-Vita\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Forum Link\"><strong>You&#8217;ll have to pay to play PSP games on Vita<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony reveals UMD Passport program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507","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=15507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}