Vita Games Dropping Street Date

[manuel]

Salnax said:

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.

A lot of stores might also give you a 10% discount, then you save nothing at all by buying the download version.