Subscribers to Sony's PlayStation Plus service have grown accustomed to basking in the free game and downloadable content for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable, but the service isn't extending to the upcoming PlayStation Vita. At least, not yet. When fielding questions from fans of the Plus program over at the PlayStation Blog, Morgan Haro from the PlayStation Network team replied to a pro-Plus comment with this:
We definitely have our eye on Vita, but it will not be there on day one.
That's understandable. Everything being released for the Vita is new. Sony isn't about to start giving away content at launch to a new audience. I'm sure that Plus will include Vita content eventually once sales numbers hit certain targets and other internal goals are met. One of the top-selling Sony-published Vita launch games will probably even be the first free title released once the second-generation titles debut in a brilliant maneuver of offering a game for which the majority of Vita owners already paid actual money to a select subset of those owners. If, say, Uncharted: Golden Abyss were to be a free download to Plus subscribers for a week, you know it would generate a lot of interest in the Plus service for those resisting its siren song of discounted content and would also spark plenty of press about the Plus service coming to Vita with a mighty bang. Sure, Sony would be out some Uncharted sales, but I would think that anyone who does not pick up Nathan Drake's latest adventure when buying a Vita probably wasn't going to purchase the game anyway. I'm just brainstorming here, but I wouldn't be shocked if a scenario similar to this played out when the time is right.
