It will be a huge plus for the PS Vita as Sony’s premium club hits the portable platform next week with many awesome extras in tow.
Sony is finally delivering on the Tokyo Game Show promise of the PlayStation Vita coming into the PS Plus fold. It begins on November 19 with a new firmware update that also has some cool features arriving for the handheld.
First things first; what many treasures does being a PS Plus subscriber hold for a PS Vita owner? Many of the same premium services its big brother PS3 gets – the typical amenities – cloud save storage, PS Store discounts, and an instant game collection.
Psst… that’s PR speak for free games. Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Gravity Rush, Wipeout 2048, Jet Set Radio, Tales From Space: Mutant Blob Attack!, and Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (PlayStation Portable) to be specific.
Those PS Vita games and a rotating selection of others will be added to download and keep in the near future, so long as you pay the required PS Plus subscription fee of either $17.99 for 3 months or $49.99 for a whole year.
Before you can enjoy all that digital goodness though – and a mighty splendid offering it is – you’ll first have to download firmware update version 2.00 that gives the PS Vita a spanking new email app, wireless content transferring between the portable and the PC, and improvements to the web browser.
The PS Vita’s email app allows for multiple accounts and pop-up notifications while the web browser is better optimized for HTML5 and uses more of the system’s on-board memory for better stability. Hmm, I wonder if that means PS Vita users will be able to access it during a paused game without it causing a O.S. crash? I guess we’ll see.
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