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PlayStation Vita: the other 74 games

To be available by March 2012?

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Sony has named 74 work in progress PlayStation Vita games.

Add these to the 26 PlayStation Vita Japan launch titles and you have the 100 games Sony touted for release by March 2012. The official document doesn't mention when these 74 games will be released.

Also, to call all of them games is a bit strong. Some teach languages, others are slot machine simulations, and so on. Most will likely never head West.

Furthermore, a significant amount of them don't yet have names. They're referred to simply as "genre" by "company".

Notably, there's no new Monster Hunter game. The only Vita Monster Hunter game confirmed so far is an enhanced port of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd. And even that title is absent from both the launch line-up and "work in progress" list.

Monster Hunter's absence is even more glaring when put next to Nintendo's announcement of Monster Hunter 4 on 3DS.

The full list of the 74 work in progress Vita games is below.

  • Sumioni - ink action (what?) (Acquire)
  • SRPG (working title) - simulation RPG (Alpja Unit)
  • Malicious (tentative) - ACT (what - action?) (Alvion)
  • No title (working title!) - dungeon RPG (Aquaplus)
  • Street Fighter X Tekken - fighting (Capcom)
  • Shirotsuku - simulation (Cave)
  • New shooting (working title) - shooting (Cave)
  • Emergency Escape Adventure Trust or Betrayal (tentative) - adventure: emergency escape adventure (what?) (Chunsoft)
  • DJ Max Technika Portable (working title) - DJ music game (Cyberfront Corporation)
  • Jurassic Hunter (working title) - action game (Digital Works Entertainment)
  • Slotter Mania 5 - slot simulation (Dorasu)
  • Hello Kitty to Issho Block Crash 5 - block crash (Dorasu)
  • FIFA (working title) - sport football (EA Sports)
  • Maplus Portable Navi 4 (working title) - navigations (Edia)
  • RPG (working title!) - RPG (Furyu Corporation)
  • Ragnarok Odyssey - action (GungHo Online Entertainment)
  • TBA - action (GungHo Online Entertainment)
  • TBA - action puzzle (GungHo Online Entertainment)
  • New title - new genre (what?) (Gust)
  • Sudoku by Nikoli Complete Edition - puzzle (Hamster)
  • Monsters Rising (tentative title) - card game (Idea Factory)
  • Dragon's Crown - action RPG (Ignition Entertainment)
  • Shin Megami Tensei series - RPG (Atlus)
  • Persona 4: The Golden - RPG (Atlus)
  • Pachi-Para Series - pachinko (Irem)
  • No title - adventure (Kaga Create)
  • No title - shooting game (Kaga Create)
  • Asphalt: Injection - racing (Konami)
  • AR Combat DigiQ - simulation (Konami)
  • Oh to Maoh to Nananin no himegimi tachi - shin ohsama monogatari (what?) - RPG (Konami)
  • PES (tentative) - sport football (Konami)
  • Zone of the Enders HD Collection - action (Konami)
  • Mah-Jong Fight Club: Shinsei Zenkoku Taisen Version - Mah-Jong (Konami)
  • Metal Gear Solid HD Collection - stealth action (Konami)
  • Baseball - sport baseball (Konami)
  • New Level-5 RPG - RPG (Level-5), duh
  • No title - adventure (Mages)
  • Saikyo Todai Shogi - table (Mainichi Communications)
  • Marjong Haoh - table (Mainichi Communications)
  • New Action RPG (working title) - action RPG (Marvelous Entertainment)
  • New Action-Adventure game (working title) - action adventure (Marvelous Entertainment)
  • New Simulation RPG (working title) - simulation RPG (Marvelous Entertainment)
  • New Fantasy RPG (working title) - action RPG (Marvelous Entertainment)
  • Next Education [English Grammar] - education (Media5 Corporation)
  • Next Education [Test preparation for certified administrative procedures specialists] - education (Media5 Corporation)
  • Next Education [TOEIC TEST] - education (Media5 Corporation)
  • Gundam Franchise (working title) - action (Namco Bandai)
  • Super Robot Taisen Franchise (working title) - TBD (Namco Bandai)
  • Tales of Innocence R - RPG (Namco Bandai)
  • Anime Action (working title) - action (Namco Bandai)
  • Ys: Foliage Ocean in Celceta - action RPG (Nihon Falcom)
  • Daito Giken Official Pachi-Slot Simulator Series - pachi-slot simulator (Paon)
  • No title - android communicator (Polygon Magic)
  • Little Busters! Converted Edition - adventure (Prototype)
  • Jumpin' (working title) - action (Railfan Holdings)
  • RPG (working title) - RPG (Rideon Japan)
  • Super Monkey Ball (working title) - action puzzle (Sega)
  • Ginsei Igo - table (SilverStarJapan)
  • Ginsei Shogi Huun Ryuuko Raiden - table (SilverStarJapan)
  • Escape - survival strategy (Sony)
  • Gravity Rush - action adventure (Sony)
  • Sound Shape - music action creator (Sony)
  • Starstrike Delta - shooting (Sony)
  • Reality Fighters - AR fighting (Sony)
  • LittleBigPlanet - platform action/create (Sony)
  • WipEout 2048 - racing (Sony)
  • Final Fantasy 10 - RPG (Square Enix)
  • Sangokuhime - simulation adventure (SystemSoft Alpha Corporation)
  • Battlefield of Maidens 2nd - strategic simulation adventure (SystemSoft Alpha Corporation)
  • Sengokuhime 3rd - strategic simulation adventure (SystemSoft Alpha Corporation)
  • Moe Moe Great War Modern Version ++ - strategic simulation adventure (SystemSoft Alpha Corporation)
  • Ninja Gaiden Sigma - action (Tecmo Koei)
  • Lumines - music puzzle (Ubisoft)
  • Rayman Origins - action (Ubisoft)

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