Japaneese Vita owners got a 30 minute-webcast yesterday:
Highlites were:
- SCEJ President Hiroshi Kawano officially announcing a Vita price drop.
Both wifi and 3G model - 19,980 Yen. (Japan only) from 28 februar.
(Not sure if it were announced but there is also coming a bonus pack wich is costing 24,980 yen, but that includes a 32GB Memory card, and 3G.)
- Free Playstation Plus for all for Japan Vita accounts in 7 days, aswell.
Vita-games in February will include; Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Ridge Racer and 4 other titles (I think two of them are Dynasty Warriors: Next, and Dokuru).
- Playstation Store Vita Debut Campaign was announced.
Basically first time buyers on the Vita Store in Japan will get 200 Yen credit.
(about £1.50/$2) nice touch again hope the bring this over to the west.
Games:
- Phantasy Star Online 2 Vita service were shown, it starts 28th February and was showcased alongside the new Ice Silver Vita which was also dated for the 28th February (and will come bundled with PSO2).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plW_GZGzR4U&hd=1
PSO 2 is a popular free to play MMORPG, and will allow users to use their PC version data.
- Toukiden (Vita and PSP) (
Trailer)
New IP from Dynasty Warriors studio.
Summer 2013 (in Japan).
New trailer for Soul Sacrifice.
Keiji Inafune from Concept also discussed development on the Vita,
said that it is easy to develop for, allows for pretty graphics and that they wanted controls that did not frustrate or confuse players, this
combination is only available on the Vita.
This game has been in development for 2 years already and is coming along very nicely
Also some Vita bundles with Soul Sacrifice bundled were announced.
Valhalla Knights was dated for 23rd May (Japan).
Trailer was shown off.
Eiyuu Densetsu: Sen no Kiseki
teaser shown.
3D action/JRPG game with a free control camera system. The
character models are straight out of Japanese Manga and seem to mostly be Japanese schoolgirls with ridiculously short skirts!
Though you can also play as a school boy! This is very likely to be Japan only.
Gundam Breaker was discussed and confirmed to be coming for both PS3 and Vita and will be released in 2013, though no firm date was given.
Trailer
God Eater 2 trailer. (
Trailer).
God Eater Burst data can be transferred over to GE2 and God Eater Burst will be able to be transferred to Vita for free at the end of February (if you own the PSP version of course).
This is probably a Japan store feature, so when GE2 arrives in the west, it won't probably happen like that.
A new Dragon’s Crown
trailer was shown off.
So it's still alive.
And they also announced Final Fantasy X HD is indeed coming to Vita.
Currently in development (no release date as of yet).
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Segment)
Some more trailers were shown for games, releasing between now and March.
But this is most of what people talk about.
Seems like pretty good offering for the types of games popular in Japan.