{"id":32207,"date":"2012-02-08T12:43:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T10:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=32207"},"modified":"2012-02-08T12:51:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T10:51:55","slug":"psp-umds-not-transferrable-to-ps-vita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/32207-psp-umds-not-transferrable-to-ps-vita","title":{"rendered":"PSP UMDs not transferrable to PS Vita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those big plans you had to move all your old <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19916-Playstation-Portable-(PSP)\">PSP<\/a> <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20723-UMD-Universal-Media-Disc\">UMD<\/a>s over to your new <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19922-Playstation-Vita-(PSVita)\">PS Vita<\/a>? Better cancel them, and buy a hanky instead. Also, maybe hang onto that PSP for a bit longer.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11859-Sony-Computer-Entertainment\">Sony<\/a> introduced a UMD Passport program in Japan alongside that lets PS Vita owners register their PSP UMDs on the <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19910-Playstation-Network-(PSN)\">PlayStation Network<\/a>, and download them to their new handheld for a small fee &#8211; but no similar scheme is being offered elsewhere. At least, not for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>PSP games bought on the PSN will be transferable to the PS Vita, though.<\/p>\n<p>No explanation has been given for the decision, although that&#8217;s probably going to change when everybody on the internet has a fit about it, which is right about now. Watch this space.<\/p>\n<p>The PS Vita launches in America, Europe, and locally on 22 February.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5883089\/sony-you-wont-be-able-to-bring-psp-discs-to-vita\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a><\/h5>\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 SA launch info update\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/31516-ps-vita-sa-launch-info-update.html\">PS Vita launch info update<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"SA gets more PS Vita launch titles\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/31883-sa-gets-more-ps-vita-launch-titles.html\">SA gets more PS Vita launch titles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only doesn&#8217;t do backwards compatibility<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":27035,"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":[31,527,973,71,1261],"class_list":["post-32207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-ps-vita","tag-psp","tag-sony","tag-umd-passport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32207","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32221,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32207\/revisions\/32221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}