Playstation Vita Admiration and Rant

February 8, 2012 Paul Palmer

I played with a Vita demo today and was really impressed. The system just looks gorgeous, the screen's nice and big, and the size feels just right, it fits your hands really well. I played through the demo for Uncharted Golden Abyss.

After getting kinda psyched up for the Vita, I came home and saw that they nixed the UMD transfer program. siiiiiiiigh. For those not in the know about the transfer, Kotaku.com explains it:

Sony debuted the UMD Passport program in Japan last December alongside the release of the Vita. Japanese gamers can insert their game discs into their PSPs, register them on their PlayStation Network accounts, and pay a small fee to re-download their games on the Vita.

While I certainly wouldn't have moved over my whole PSP collection, there's certainly a few games I wouldn't have minded paying like half price to transfer over. I have all the Ys games and have barely played them yet. If I move to Vita and I can't take them with me, that really dwindles my chances of every actually popping them in again!

I think what really hurts about Sony announcing this, besides the fact that they said they'd do it and then decided not to, is that Sony's IS still offering the UMD transfer, in Japan! Why Sony US decided to back out, I have no idea, but that is really disappointing to hear.

Okay end rant. Oh, but the system does look lovely.