| d21lewis said: Well, I'll be damned. Son of a bitch came with an 8GB memory card! I already have a 32GB card, and the starter kit came with a 4GB card. I'm in memory card heaven! |
May as well start buying your games on the PSN Store then.
As inflated as the memory card prices are, proprietary format and all, I did a rough estimate and realized the "buy your own storage" option isn't that much worse cost-wise than buying retail chip games.
Figure a lot of PS Vita games are about 1GB meaning, you may be able to store about 30 games on a 32GB chip at about $100. PSN Store "discounts" for DD games tend to be about 10% or $3-5 per game. So, for about 30 games with an average DD discount of $3 per title, that's $90 off retail, or $10 over the cost of a 32GB card. The difference increases with the lower storage cards.
Of course there are still a lot of people who insist on having physical media to sell or just like to display all their game cases, but some of those with hundreds of titles, who generally don't sell old games (hooray for collecting/hoarding), don't want to make their living rooms look like GameStop.
Technically, you don't need to keep everything on memory cards though. Just what you want immediately available. Sony's Content Manager Assistant makes it easy to manage and store games/content without keeping everything on memory card. Works on Windows or Mac too. The Content Manager also allow you to juggle multiple PSN accounts on your PS Vita by creating a backup of any account set up on the PSV, which can be restored at any time.
In a nutshell, set up account A on PSV. Create a back up to PC. Remove account from PSV. Set up account B on PSV. Create a back up to PC. Restore account A to PSV whenever wanted. Restore account B whenever wanted.
http://cma.dl.playstation.net/cma/win/en/index.html
