According to Thrifty Nerd citing a Sony spokesperson at “a recent Sony Vita event,” downloadable PlayStation Vita games available on the PlayStation Network will be 40 percent cheaper in the U.S. compared to the physical copies sold at retail.

In other words, games bought at brick and mortar stores will cost $40 at most (reportedly), while digital versions of those same games would be just $23, reports Thrifty Nerd who adds that the “lack of hardware and packaging” are reasons for the price drop.

A discount is also reportedly being offered in Japan with downloadable PSN titles going for $40 versus $50 (at the highest) for boxed versions.

If the price drop for the U.S. is indeed true, then the high price of Sony’s expensive proprietary memory cards for PS Vita might not seem that bad after all.

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Vita Games on PSN to be 40% Less than Retail? [Thrifty Nerd, via Joystiq]

The other day we put up the details of the Playstation Passport program that will let current PSP owners download the games that they purchased on UMD and put them on the Playstation Vita. At the time the list of which games will become available for download was not available, but now the Japanese Playstation website is listing the full list of games. The program will become available once the Playstation Vita comes out in Japan and then in North America.

Check out the list, but be aware that this is the Japanese list, which means that the North American version will probably have the game that you want to download.

[Playstation Vita re Download list]

In a battle for exclusive content, Sony has been seen as the kind of console maker that didn’t care much of third party exclusivity. It seems that this is changing now that the Playstation 3 and Vita versions of Street Fighter X Tekken will be getting Kuro and Turo (Known in Japan as the Sony Cat) and then of course Cole from Infamous. There isn’t much details as of now, but chances are that the characters will probably come your way as DLC. If it doesn’t come as DLC then they the characters will be on the game as an unlock-able similar to the way that Kratos ended up on Mortal Kombat.

As the Playstation Vita becomes available in Japan and following that the North American & European release there will be some games that will become available on launch date. One of these games will be Army Corps of Hell, which looks fun. Below we have some of the screenshots of the game and while you wait you should know that the Playstation Vita will become available on February 22, 2012 in North America & Europe.

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We expected a Motorstorm title for the Vita in the future, but what we didn’t know was that the game will be RC based. According to the trailer below, Sony will be bringing an RC Based Motorstorm version that will be available for download on the PSN to your Vita and PS3. There will be four player multiplayer available to PS3 usersand what’s nice about is that with the cloud game save the game will let you play and save the game on the PS3 and you can continue on playing on the Vita while traveling.

Watch the announcement trailer below and expect this game sometime in 2012.

According to a Blogspot website called MGN, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 might be coming to the Playstation Vita. This has not been confirmed by Capcom, so take it as a rumor, but it’s certainly a good thing and it shows the power of the Playstation Vita. Below we have the screenshots as they were probably taken quick while the Capcom people weren’t looking. As always keep checking with us as more details emerge on this, but for now enjoy the screens below.

[PSP Vita Hub]