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Project Diva f Now Available On PSN

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The Vita version of Project Diva f has just arrived on March 4th and is coming very soon to Europe on the 12th.  The price will be $29.99 and will support the DLC cross-buy promotion, meaning if you bought DLC for the PS3 version you can re-download them for your newly bought Vita version!

Aaron Webber, Associate Brand Manager at Sega, posts regularly on the Sega Forum’s Project Diva section as RubyEclipse to help answer questions about this release.  Of what is known so far, all of the game’s DLC (extra songs, Snow Miku and extra characters) will be under $20 total if you have not bought them for PS3 previously.  The Vita exclusive AR (Augmented Reality) mode feature has been kept and information about how to use the feature on this digital release will be shared later.  The Augmented Reality feature allows you to place Hatsune Miku anywhere you want in the real world with AR markers and she will pose and perform songs.  You can freely take pictures in this mode as well.

Project Diva F on PS3 was as enjoyable as it was challenging, hopefully Miku can make more friends with the localized Vita version.  Convince Sega to release more games like the Project Diva series by supporting the game on any platform and spread the word!  After all, Project Diva F 2nd will release later this month in Japan, and Sega has more games planned for the Vita such as Phantasy Star Nova.

Project Diva f Release Date and Price Confirmed

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Some time ago we posted news about the release date for Project Diva f on the PS Vita, which was confirmed to be sometime in March. Sega has now revealed the exact launch date and the price for the game on their official blog.

Project Diva f will launch March 4th in North America and March 12th for Europe. The game will be available on PSN at a price of $29.99. While the game itself won’t have a Cross-Buy option (meaning that if you own the game for PS3, you’ll have to buy it again to play it on the PS Vita), Sega did reveal that the game will be getting a DLC Cross-Buy Promotion. This means that buying the Snow Miku 2013 or the Extra Character Modules DLC for either the PS3 or the PS Vita version of the game automatically makes the DLC available for the game on both platforms. It’s a nice touch, and it gives people a reason to buy the game again for the PS Vita even if they already own it on PS3.

In one of our previous articles we questioned whether or not Sega would release the game at a competitive price point. At $29.99, the answer to that question seems to be yes. Combined with the Cross-Buy promotion, Sega seems to have made a genuine effort to make the English PS Vita version worth buying despite the long wait for the game. Now it’s up to all the fans out there to support the release to convince SEGA to bring over Project Diva F 2nd and other PS Vita games to the West! Will you be buying the game? Let us know in the comments!

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Project Diva f and Project Diva f 2nd Competing for Sales?

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Last week, Sega of America revealed a new trailer for the English version of Project Diva f. A few days later Sega of Japan also posted a new trailer for Project Diva f 2nd, which has currently only been confirmed for release in Japan. Both games will be released in March, so the timing window of the English release of Project Diva f might not be ideal. In the comments on the PlayStation blog post for the trailer of the original Project Diva f, we can see some people state that they won’t buy the game because it’s being released as a PSN digital download only, or because they already intend to import Project Diva F/f 2nd instead. We can also see comments from others that intend to double dip and buy the English version of the game for the PS Vita despite already buying it on PS3.

It’ll remain to be seen what this means for the sales of the game. An important factor here is of course going to be the game’s price, and at this point we don’t know yet how much the PS Vita version will cost. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, the PS3 digital download version is still being sold at its original price. That’s probably a good sign, seeing how poor sales often result in a rapid discount of a game only months after its release. However, trying to sell the game at a high price might not be the right approach for the upcoming PS Vita version. The Vita isn’t selling particularly well outside of Japan and many Project Diva fans have already bought either the Japanese version of Project Diva F/f or the English version on PS3. It’ll be interesting to see what price Sega intends to sell the game at and whether fans will end up skipping the English version of Project Diva f and import Project Diva f 2nd instead. In any case, the sales of the English version of Project Diva f will be an important factor in deciding the future of the franchise outside of Japan. If you plan to buy either of these games, let us know in the comments! We’d love to hear our readers’ opinion on the matter!

Below are the two trailers mentioned earlier. The first one is the official English trailer for Project Diva f on the PS Vita. The one after that is a 4 minute trailer for the Japanese version of both Project Diva f 2nd and Project Diva F 2nd, detailing all the various aspects of the game.

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Project DIVA f coming this March on PSN

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Mark your calendars Vita and Project DIVA fans!  SEGA has announced on their blog the release date for Project DIVA f to be sometime in March.  Pricing is still to be announced, but hopefully it is fair enough to encourage newcomers to the game and for any double dippers among those who bought it for PS3 already.

Mentioned on our Project Diva F 2nd page, show your support to convince SEGA to localize Project Diva F 2nd and to help the Vita remain a viable platform for publishing in the West.