I love the idea. Hoping NA version of the same thing is a bit cheaper and I doubt I'll be doing this for every PSP game I own, but for the few I'd like to move over I'll deff look into it.

The fact that we have to pay for games we already own and that it will be limited to companies they can license their games from is absurd.

This is not the way Backwards compatibility should work.

It's all an excuse just to make sure that a few individuals can't get and play games they've borrowed from friends and rented for free.

Meanwhile those who don't have access to the PSN are screwed over, even if it is a marginally low amount of people.

No. UMD is a shit format and I am very glad Sony are doing away with it. If you wish to play UMDs you can do that on a PSP.

While I agree with you true-as-hell statement, I have to disagree with Sony's dealing of the PSP to Vita game "trade-in" (term I use loosely xD). Why should we have to buy things we already own? With this complex system they've created, the could easily give a unique code to each copy of the UMD to ensure it isn't re-used to give away more copies, and just let us have the game we bought for free. Or at least for like $1 or $2. Knowing Sony's store pricing policy, most relevant games we own will cost upwards $10, IF they are in the Store.

UMD is hardly shit, since the days of the PSP-2000 load times have been a thing of the past. (Even more so with games and installs now days)

It can hold almost 2GB of data which is PLENTY enough for 99% of games (The 1% being the couple of games that are double-UMD).

And game's don't scratch easily at all.

So I fail to see how bad it is.

The only remotely bad thing about is the sound the drive makes when reading a disc. Which itself isn't even annoying.

When you make a successor to a current system. Backwards compatibility is near STANDARD these days and keeps the library at launch open to the less congested times of 1st generation software.

And it's been this way for a long time.

PS2>Ps1 games

PS3>PS2(early units only and newer units through "remasters") and PS1 games

Xbox 360>Xbox games

Wii>Gamecube games

Game boy Color>Gameboy games

Game boy advance>Game boy and game boy color games

DS>Game boy advance games

3DS>DS games

Neo Geo Pocket Color>Neo Geo Pocket Games

Neo Geo AES>Neo Geo MVS(Adapter)

Wonderswan Color>Wonderswan games

Wonderswan Crystal> Wonderswan and wonderswan color games

SNES>Gameboy Games (Adapter)

NES>Gameboy Games(Adapter)

Gamecube>Gameboy Advance Gameboy and Gameboy Color games (Adapter)

Genesis/Mega Drive>Master System/Mk.3 Games (Adapter)

N64>/Gameboy/color games http://www.chrismcovell.com/wideboy64.html

It's just another added cost$$$$ to the already big rip-off the Vita is at launch to get essential standard functions of a portable gaming system working.

Base system 250$

Memory card (REQUIRED for Backwards Compatibility AND to play Vita games)30+$

Games 40-99$(99$ being the current US dollar to Yen exchange for a 7700 Yen Vita game)

PSP games you already own Physical copies of. 5-20$

In comparison the 3DS was

System 250$ (Now only 170$)

Memory Card-Free Came with system.

Games 30-40$

DS games-Free.