Sony says, “No UMD transfer for you!”

Binh Nguyen 8 Feb, 2012 at 4:23pm ET Article published in Gaming

The Sony PlayStation Vita has already been released in Japan and with it came the UMD Passport program, which allows owners of UMD media from their older PSP to register the game, which allows users to download a digital copy of the game to their Vita for a reduced price. In Europe, those who are upgrading from the PSPGo will be able to receive three free games. Unfortunately, this is not the case for North America when the handheld drops later this month.

Kotaku has confirmed that Sony will not be bringing the UMD Passport program to North America. There is precedent, however—the same thing happened when the PSPGo was nearing release.

Comments

8 Feb 2012 ~ 4:26pm Jokke One solution: move to Europe.
8 Feb 2012 ~ 4:37pm pigflipper I see Sony is still doing whatever it takes to turn an excellent product into a mediocre one at best.
8 Feb 2012 ~ 6:18pm BHHammy Sony? Pass up an opportunity to be utter dicks whenever possible?

Puh-leeeese.
8 Feb 2012 ~ 6:37pm Tushon
One solution: move to Europe.
If you know of a company that will hire an American into a entry sysadmin/desktop engineering role, I'm your man. Will move tomorrow.
8 Feb 2012 ~ 6:57pm Jokke @Tushon: Statoil, ICD, Academic Work, Trondheim County, Sportradar AS, Availo. These are just a few.

For translation.
8 Feb 2012 ~ 6:58pm Thrax UMD, brah?
8 Feb 2012 ~ 8:12pm Tim Hack it! Obviously!
9 Feb 2012 ~ 9:22am drasnor That's cool Sony, I didn't need the Vita anyway.