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Wow a low score for an Assassin's Creed game from Nick, very surprising. You must of been very disappointed in this one.

By "price drop" I got it for $29.99 at Newegg . With the advent of retail on eShop with this title I wonder how fast this will get a sale. Though with the game of the week sales and month of Mario it looks like Nintendo is warming up to sales or discounts, which is always a good thing.

Nick, with the North American version the PS Vita version is free but you pay for the PS3 version, so for North American owners if you get the PS Vita version, you do not automatically get access to the PS3 version.

The European version is if you buy one version you get both. This came from comments of Sony employees in the blog.

"Scion have sponsored the free download for a limited time in the US Store.

In Europe you can get both the PS3 and PSVita versions for £4.79/€5.99 as per the “pay once get both” offer."

"You’ll get the Vita version for free; The PS3 version is $9.99 ($7.49 with your Plus discount)."

This is why the bad art Mega Man wins:   best prologue ever

So how was this supposed to sound good on paper in the first place? This game came out of nowhere to me and its staying there.

Part of it is because the 3G versions of PS Vita all have GSM chips in them since GSM is a common globally used cellular technology. The big 2 GSM providers in the US are AT&T and T-Mobile. It probably would of been more costly for Sony to make a Verizon or Sprint compatible CDMA model only for the US market. 

Regarding the partnership, a scenario like that would only be plausible in a perfect world. In reality, the partnership is that Sony creates a model that works with AT&T's network and that's about it, if you want to use it then great.

But my big turn off from the 3G model is that the 3G connection only allows you to push updates, browse the internet, and use stuff like GPS and Twitter. According to some sources, you can't play online multiplayer over 3G and only features such as leaderboard updates are utilized. That and I don't want another monthly data bill since I get one for my cellphone and that's more than enough.

Just shows you how you get results by complaining enough.

Nice to see NFC since it's going to be a tech that will get a big push. Google Wallet is a big proponent of that where you tap a phone next to a reader and it reads your credit card info for instead of swiping it. Here in NJ and NYC I saw a lot of Google Wallet enabled readers at stores and some "smart billboards" where you tap your phone and it gives you a special coupon.

With this in mind there can be some nice applications of this, like for example a preorder figurine that if you tap them near your Wii U controller you get something extra in your game, so you get a physical and digital pre-order or promo item wrapped in one package. Though with the proliferation of collector's editions publishers can pull some exclusive BS or DLC through this method (not like they do this already), or will have a field day with  games that will have "DLC figurines".