John Koller, Sony’s head of hardware marketing, was interviewed by Kotaku regarding the PlayStation Vita. He talks about the Vita’s success and how Sony want to avoid making the same mistake with the new console as they did with the PSP. However, it does seem Sony is just repeating what happened…
If you got into the LittleBigPlanet Vita Beta yesterday using this method then you’re not the only ones. Yesterday, Sony started sending out more beta emails to lucky PS Vita owners. Those users who accessed the beta site should have also received official beta invitation emails from SCEE too.
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Announced at E3 2012, the Assassin’s Creed 3 PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3 bundles are now available for pre-order online. The bundle costs $249.99 and include a white PS Vita system, a 4 GB memory card, and Assassin’s Creed 3: Libreration on card. The PS3 bundle is $299.99 and will include a black 320 GB PS3 and Assassin’s Creed 3 on Blu-ray.
If you are looking for some bargain buys for your PlayStation Vita, the PlayStation Store is having a three week sale on a number of titles. Starting on June 13th until July 4th, Sony are running a sale for content compatible with PS Vita. Each week the content will be rotated, starting with digital only titles followed by adding in retail releases and finally on the third week, retail and PSP/mini titles compatible with Vita.
If you didn’t get into the LittleBigPlanet beta the first or second time around, you still have another change. Go here and login with your PSN details. If you click on the ‘Vouchers’ menu, you might get a instant voucher code if you are lucky. We tried it and were presented with a instant code to download the beta.
A new minor firmware is now available for the PlayStation Vita, bringing the system software version to v1.69. The update is completely optional to install, but maybe required by some PS Vita games. An official changelog for the update wasn’t released, but we suspect it just improves compatibility with new PS Vita titles.
Another day and another PS Vita price drop. This time, its online retailer Zavvi offering the PS Vita for only for £169.95, a saving of £60 on the normal retail price. If you don’t have a PS Vita already, this a perfect time to pick one up. This is yet more evidence that a permanent price cut may be eminent.
A Russian website is claiming that Sony has announced the release date for LittleBigPlanet on the PlayStation Vita. The game, developed by Tarsier Studios, will be on sale from September 28th 2012, though we cannot find any official reference of this date in our research. For now, we’ve filed this under ‘Rumors’, but hopefully we get confirmation soon.
