Sony has plans to owners of PSP games on UMD to cater shared with Japanese retailers. For a small amount of the PSP games via PSN download. The Vita has no UMD drive and uses special memory cards.
PSP owners will have their games on UMD disks, also on the PlayStation Vita can play, sign Adriasang. Japanese retailers would already have been informed how this will work, since Sony’s new handheld has no UMD drive. Yoshio Matsumoto, head of development at Sony Computer Entertainment, in an interview indicated that UMD owners their games to be able to download at a ‘special price’.
Most PSP games are already available on the PlayStation Network because of the PSP Go, the UMD drive had to be set. The games are stored on the internal memory of 16 gigabytes, double that is just as big a Memory Stick Micro. Sony ceased in april 2011 the production of the PSP Go, which is not a commercial success.
The PlayStation Vita will appear on december 17 in Japan. The United States and Europe will follow later. Games will be simultaneously available digitally on the PSN and in store on a NVG card appear.