Toyota’s Scion brand has a playable version of their new Scion iQ in the upcoming Motorstorm RC game, and to celebrate the vehicle, they’ve decided to bring Vita owners a killer cross promotional deal. For a limited time, Vita owners will be able to download Motorstorm RC for the PS Vita 100% free! How awesome is this?!
Motorstorm RC has been on my list of wants ever since it was announced so I can’t wait to check this out tomorrow!
It seems the guys over at Konami are having a bit of trouble deciding on exactly when they want this game’s launch. Originally scheduled for release in the fall of 2011, Konami pushed the release to January 24 and then to March 6th. Now Konami has confirmed that the collection will now arrive in stores on March 20.
Perhaps the reasoning behind the delay is because they want the newest edition to the series, Silent Hill: Downpour, to debut first. It seems likely as March is appearing to be a promising month for Silent Hill fans. Two new titles, Silent Hill: Downpour and Silent Hill: Book of Memories along with the HD Collection are all set to be released within the next 3 weeks.
While the hardware launch of the PS Vita has been relatively drama free (except for those who are complaining of the common OLED blotching), there has been one issue that has been getting in the way of the gaming goodness – the NP-2244-2 error in the PSN store. The error usually comes with a “Cannot connect to server” message and those who get it find it very hard to get back into the store afterwards.
The error appears to show up when downloading multiple items from the store, as if there was some sort of hard limit on amount of items that can be queued/downloaded at once. Some have suggested that clearing the billing data on the device may help but that solution doesn’t appear to be working for every instance of the error.
Sony has not yet commented on this issue although a quick Google and Twitter search will show that a number of users are complaining of the issue. I personally haven’t run into the issue myself. Leave us a comment to let us know if you’ve had the issue and include some system info (region, Wifi or 3g?) so we can help get to the bottom of this.
PS Vita owners in Europe are getting a little goodie to help test out their system’s video features with an episode of South Park that is now available for download. The offer only applies to those in Europe and is good for an SD version of the episode; those wanting the HD goodness will have to fork over £1.99.
Backed by a $50 million marketing campaign for the handheld, CEO Jack Tretton is hoping for the new portable gaming device to make a splash in the US. Tretton said he would be “very pleased” if there were a half-million sales of the Vita in the first 3 weeks after the US launch, a number that should be easily attainable considering there were 321,000 units sold in the first two days alone.
It took over a month for the Vita to get to the 500,000 mark in Japan, where the PSP still soldiers on with a rabid fanbase. That’s not to say that hitting the half-million mark is a sign of future success; the PSP originally launched at $249 and hit the 500,000 mark within its first two days, but we all know where that ended up.
Hopefully the addition of a second thumbstick, PSN integration and better graphics will help keep this handheld afloat and grow its own fanbase in the US.
