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Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational requires 'play ticket' to tee off online [update]
It's the best-selling launch game on the PlayStation Vita, but for Japanese golfers looking to hit the links online, Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational requires an online pass. New copies include a code, while an online pass can be purchased through PSN for used or downloaded copies. The online pass is priced at 900 Yen ($11.56), Destructoid discovered. Purchasing Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational through PSN slashes the price of the online pass, so picking up the game at retail or going the download route will ultimately end up costing you the same amount of money. Update: Destructoid has updated its post, saying that the online pass is actually included in the PSN download and doesn't need to be downloaded separately. [Image credit: Destructoid]
Hot Shots Golf is best selling Vita game in Japanese launch
Though they may live very far away, our friends in Japan aren't so different from us in the West. Sure, they most commonly mark Christmas with a visit to KFC over a ham or turkey, but at least Col. Sanders and Santa both have white facial hair, and isn't that all that matters? Look at the Japanese Vita launch sales chart we've placed after the break (courtesy of Media Create), numbered according to their position in the total sales chart. There you'll discover that those in Japan love Nathan Drake just as much as you, making Uncharted: Golden Abyss the second biggest Vita game with 48,224 sold. What's more American than Nathan Drake skipping across the globe and killing the people he meets there? Nothing, that's what. Of course, when you see that the most popular game is the adorably animated action of Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational, and that the hostess simulator Dream Club Zero Portable beat out the Katamari Damacy game -- well let's just say you'd be forgiven for eyeing that bucket of Original Recipe with some extra suspicion.
