Well, that about clears that up. Yoshida would know, what with the fact that he’s near the top of the game development food chain at Sony.
That means you can feel a little bit better about your Japanese import pre-order for the PlayStation Vita, content in the knowledge that, like the PSP and PlayStation 3, you’ll have a portable that’s capable of playing the weirdest of Japanese video games and Call of Duty.
Alastair
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 7:03 PMHooray! Sony > Nintendo!
Linksterman
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 7:55 PMAnd bam, Vita wins.
Jake
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 8:53 PMHuzzah! Gonna get a japanese one off play-asia then!
bill
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 9:11 PMPlease keep that kind of talk away. Thats better suited for IGN thanks. Thats why i like Kotaku better, please do not be doing that
TH
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 9:24 PMlolwut
TH
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 9:25 PMAbsolutely awesome news. Will be buying one as soon as Sony is willing to take my money.
Braaains
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 9:52 PMYet another tick in the “win” column for PSV. That column is getting fuller by the day.
MikeZdoesit
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 10:04 PM*sniff* hes a saint
SB
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 11:50 PMDamn Sony you’ve annoyed me in the past but with the Vita you seem to be ticking all the right boxes – My Nintendo loyalty is starting to crack and I’m seriously considering getting this – at launch…
I gonna gets me some portable Uncharted!
DominicDesign
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 6:22 PM+1.
Vita is doing everything right so far.
noko
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 12:23 AMYep I’m convinced, will be buying it next year!
Mr Waffle
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 2:05 AMAwesome, the only thing I play on my PSP nowadays is Japanese imports that never get released like music games…
Darrell
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 2:33 AMYay!!
LILDEVIANT
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 4:18 AMPlease Sony here’s the cash now where’s my Vita?
Dark_Templar
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 8:09 AMRIP 3DS
ash
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 10:41 AMhmmm… as nice as this is, my question is to do with the same “region free” ness of the ps3… yes the console is region free for game discs… but dlc is region locked, backwards compatibility is region locked, multimedia playback is region locked… i hope the psv is truely region free and things like the dlc will be region free too
villainsoft
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 10:11 AMRegion free is a step in the right direction, but we also also need english translations for all those awesome jrpgs!
djmcbell
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 4:36 PMHuzzah!
On the region-ness, Sony seem to have got it right with PSP, PS3 and Vita. Microsoft have got it half-right with the 360 (a fair few games are region-free) and Nintendo suck balls on everything but the original DS.
BTJ
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 1:19 AMDont be so excited.
The question: “is it confirmed if the Vita is region free?”
The Answer: “yes it is”
That means yes it is confirmed, but not whether it is region free.
The complete answer could quite easily be: “Yes it is confirmed, the Vita will feature region locking.”
English is tricky kids…
Clarrisani
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 5:51 AMIf it’s region free, then they have a lot of explaining to do in regards to the price here in Australia. If it’s going to stay at $400, then I’ll be ordering mine from overseas.
Lamanuwa
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 10:56 PMWhat about the 3G do we have any idea whether or not the jap version will support 3G sims in Australia?
Bear
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 9:05 AM3g is 3g where ever you are.
Kinexd
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 9:13 PMdoes that mean it will cost less to import one into australia from amazon?, cos they only cost $249.99 in america (exchange rate is practically US$1 = AUS$1)
Raikou
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 10:01 AMand then my 3DS went up on craigslist