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Sony strikes again with their usual "Buy the games you've already bought" marketing techniques, Want you play your PSP UMD's on your PSP vita? no problem, just register for UMD ® Passport and Sony will give you the privilege to download your UMD games from the PSN store for what they call "reasonable prices", what is a reasonable price i hear you ask? well lets take a look at Patapon 3 for example, currently listed on Amazon for $19.99, so if you own this and want to use the "UMD ® Passport" to play it on your vita it will cost you 1000 yen which currently converts to $12.84.......
seems to me Sony are just providing more incentive for hackers to find a work around

Translated from Japanese:
Service program for customers with Version UMD ® game titles
"UMD ® Passport"
December 06, 2011 (Tuesday) provided by the start

ソニー・コンピュータエンタテインメントジャパン (SCEJ) (※ 1) is, PSP ® "PlayStation Portable" that everyone has been owned by the user's version of the game titles for the UMD ®, if you purchase a downloadable version of the same title, usually The PlayStation ® Store (PS Store) service programs available for purchase at affordable price than the "UMD ® Passport" December 06, 2011 (Tuesday) will begin.

In Your use of this service, December 17, 2011 (Sat) PlayStation ® Vita will be released in (PS Vita) If it is owned by the games version of the UMD ® customers that purchase the same title will easily be able to enjoy even the PS Vita (※ 2).
To everyone in the user "UMD ® Passport" available for our comfort, and a dedicated application "Application Registration UMD ™" will be provided free of charge. The PSP ® from PlayStation ® Store "Registration Application UMD ™" Download (※ 3) After you have, do so now and follow the navigation application with a simple application that inserted the UMD ®, a PSN account to your own We will complete the registration UMD ® (※ 4) (※ 5). After registration is complete, you'll be able to buy at reasonable prices, a download of the same title.

The PS Vita, in PS Vita if a download of the PSP ® Game is to enjoy dual analog stick in the organic EL display and a beautiful 5 inches. In addition, GPS, camera, PSP ® Game is in response to Mic, GPS, built-in PS Vita (3G/W-Fi models only), the camera can enjoy using a microphone (※ 6) . In addition, the graphics look smooth PS Vita is the PSP ® Game "bilinear filtering" and features to enjoy and adjust to your desired quality.

About the service is at present more than 40 companies, and plans to support approximately 200 titles (some titles announced: the table below reference), turn, go to expand its cooperation with like-enabled software titles for each manufacturer We. In addition, on December 6, 2011 (Tuesday) at the start for all the support services of the title, PS Vita promotion site in November, 2,011 ( Http://Www.jp.playstation.com/Psvita/Index.html ) will be published on.

SCEJ is for the launch of the PS Vita, with its appeal will continue to appeal, then we vigorously promote further expansion of the mobile gaming market.

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(※ 1) responsible for business for the Japanese market a division of Sony Computer Entertainment.
(※ 2) except for some titles. Full list of service-enabled titles will be announced at a later date. In addition, this service provides downloadable titles are PSP ®, is available at PSP ® go.
(※ 3) is required to download an application dedicated to the memory card PlayStation ® Vita.
(※ 4) UMD ® was once registered PSN account, you can register in any other PSN account.
(※ 5) "UMD ® Passport" has more information about how to use, PS Vita promotional site ( Http://Www.jp.playstation.com/Psvita/Index.html ) Please refer to.
(※ 6) except for some titles. The corresponding ...