{"id":31516,"date":"2012-02-02T10:07:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T08:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31516"},"modified":"2012-02-02T17:03:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T15:03:48","slug":"ps-vita-sa-launch-info-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31516-ps-vita-sa-launch-info-update","title":{"rendered":"PS Vita SA launch info update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent confirmation of official <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19922-Playstation-Vita-(PSVita)\">PS Vita<\/a> pricing for South Africa, we also had a few questions raised about the launch of the devices, the peripherals and the launch titles set to hit shelves on 22 February 2012.<\/p>\n<p>To get some answers, we were in touch with Ster Kinekor Entertainment, official distributor of <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11859-Sony-Computer-Entertainment\">Sony<\/a> products in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing the European launch title line-up to the SA launch title line-up, there are a few obvious names missing &#8211; such as Escape Plan and Motorstorm RC.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21003-Ster-Kinekor\">Ster Kinkeor<\/a> has updated the SA launch title list with Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Virtua Tennis 4.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31724\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ultimate-Marvel-vs-Capcom-Vita.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31724\" class=\" wp-image-31724\" title=\"Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 Vita\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ultimate-Marvel-vs-Capcom-Vita.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ultimate-Marvel-vs-Capcom-Vita.jpg 728w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ultimate-Marvel-vs-Capcom-Vita-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ultimate-Marvel-vs-Capcom-Vita-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ultimate-Marvel-vs-Capcom-Vita-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ultimate-Marvel-vs-Capcom-Vita-250x137.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 Vita<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">PS Vita SA launch titles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Uncharted: Golden Abyss<\/li>\n<li>Mod Nation Racers: Road Trip<\/li>\n<li>Everybody\u2019s Golf<\/li>\n<li>Wipeout 2048<\/li>\n<li>Unit 13<\/li>\n<li>Little Deviants<\/li>\n<li>Reality Fighters<\/li>\n<li>Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3<\/li>\n<li>Virtua Tennis 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">PS Vita peripherals<\/h3>\n<p>The 32GB PS Vita memory card was not mentioned in the pricing announcement. Ster Kinekor explained that the 32GB card has been postponed for launch in Europe and SA at a later date in 2012.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31723\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PS-Vita-memory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31723\" class=\" wp-image-31723\" title=\"PS Vita memory\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PS-Vita-memory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PS-Vita-memory.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PS-Vita-memory-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PS-Vita-memory-250x101.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PSVita memory cards<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">PS Vita 3G RICA registration<\/h3>\n<p>It has been confirmed that consumers picking up the 3G version of the PS Vita will be required to RICA the SIM in the device in accordance with SA law.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe Vodafone is the official data partner for the PS Vita. Ster Kinekor said that no similar deal has been finalised for the South African market, but they are working on it.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"PS Vita South African pricing revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/30980-ps-vita-south-african-pricing-revealed.html\">PS Vita South African pricing revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"PS Vita 3G will require RICA registration\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/27007-ps-vita-will-require-rica-registration.html\">PS Vita 3G will require RICA registration<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PS Vita launch title line-up updated, missing 32GB memory card explained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":31722,"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":[2,2226],"tags":[21,527,819],"class_list":["post-31516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-ps-vita","tag-ster-kinekor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31516","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31842,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31516\/revisions\/31842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}