PlayStation Vita owners to get cheap downloads for PSP collection?

In a Sony sales briefing today, Sony had distributed a pamphlet that outlined how PlayStation Vita owners could make use of their UMD’s that they have from the PSP on the new system. According to a report by Andriasang, Sony might be looking into offering a service where owners of the UMD version of a game would be able to download the same title at a special price.

There were rumors, previously, that Sony might make a peripheral for the PS Vita that would allow PSP UMD’s to be playable on the PS Vita. This peripheral was rumored to be an external device that would play the UMD’s and connect to the PS Vita, sort of like an external DVD drive on computers. So far this rumor has not been confirmed.

With the PlayStation Vita, Sony has been trying to show the its fans that this time around things will be different. Making the right moves in both the hardware and software, Sony has showed to developers and consumers that Vita will not disappoint.

Full PS3 backwards compatibility this month?

With the recent Sony patent for the emulation of the Emotion Engine on the PS3, which allows software emulation of PS2 games instead of hardware, has brought out a new rumor. According to to the German website Demo News, they got a comment from a Sony employee that states that full backwards compatibility is coming to US PS3’s as a firmware update in the “next few weeks.”

With this information it could mean that with this implementation, Sony would want full backwards compatibility in all PS3 Slims by its launch. There is no denying that there is a PS3 Slim with all the recent news of Sony signing manufacturing agreements with both Foxconn and Pegatron to build a revised model in time for a July delivery.

When could all this be announced though, well  The Games Convention is the 31st of July to the 2nd of August, which they can announce it then with the price cut. This is just in time for the holidays and making GT5 a bigger possibility it will come out this year.

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Is This The Next iPhone Photo?

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Could this be the next iPhone? A photo that was recently posted shows these images, but are to be taken with a grain of salt. If this is the next generation iPhone its pretty sexy and it looks to have a bigger screen and the silent toggle switch moved.

As said before, take this with a grain of slat until Apple finally announces the next iPhone.