Some good and bad news was revealed concerning the PS Vita with the major stuff being potentially cheap digital versions of Vita games possible and accounts being limited to just 1 per device.
While Adobe has cancelled their development of flash support for mobile devices, they are currently working with Sony to enable a custom flash player for the PS Vita in order to provide flash capabilities for the handheld's web browser.
Based on a rumored leak from a third party company working with Sony, digital versions of PS Vita games on the PSN store will be around 40% cheaper than their retail versions. This was only confirmed so far to be in Japan although Sony didn't state if the discounts will carry over to other regions when the device is launched there.
For the bad news, unlike the Nintendo 3DS, the PS Vita will not allow for web browsing during gaming and will disable everything except Twitter.
As part of the recent changes for game sharing, the PS Vita will only allow 1 account per device and will be locked to a region once an account has been activated. Unlike the PSP which allowed changing regions either by logging out of an account or just restarting the device, the PS Vita requires the device to be formatted back to factory defaults in order to change regions or have a different account.
Sony has also stated the official reason for the high prices of the PS Vita memory cards is due to security issues and the cards being able to hold non-game save data.
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During an interview with Watch Impress, Sony's Muneki Shimada said Sony decided to only make the Vita compatible with its brand of memory cards in effort to not only make the Vita experience even for everyone, but to also make things more secure.
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Muneki also tried to make Sony's brand of memory cards more impressive by saying that they can not just be used to save game progress but also patches, DLC and game data.
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Daily Recap:
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http://www.gamezone.com/news/dev-rou...l-crossing-3ds
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http://www.screwattack.com/news/tekk...ing-us-arcades
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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...y-alan-wake-2/
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http://www.screwattack.com/news/next...omewhere-title