Salnax on 09 February 2012
| RolStoppable said: A ten percent discount on retail releases when you download them isn't much. Someone do the maths, but I don't think that this is going to come cheaper than buying boxed games when you need to buy a bigger memory card instead. |
Let's see...
Vita games so far range from about 600 MB to just under 3 GB. Let's say the average is about 1.5 GB. Games cost an average of $40, so you save $4 a game. You can barely manage to squeeze three games onto the standard $20 4 Gig card, and will need to upgrade to the 8 gig card for an extra $10. This card can hold about 5 games. So for $30 of memory, you can save $20.And since the 16 gig card costs twice as much as the 8 gig, you have to buy the $100 32 gig card to actually break even.
So, the short version is, Sony rips you off unless you buy the most expensive memory card.
Well played.
