I love how all the "known" people are ganging up on kowenicki. Oh wait, Turkish is still missing. I hope he's alright.
That said, cross buy is bullshit. It's nothing more than a consolation prize. Why would I need cross buy when they promised me remote play? How do I manage to get all those ~4GB digital PS Vita games on my 8 GB Memory Card? How are those games free when I have to drop another 80€ to get a 32GB card to make use of this promotion? My 8GB card is already brimmed and I recently began to move games around via content manager. And boy, is that a major inconvenience. It took at least 10 minutes to get Escape Plan (~2GB) off my memory card and onto my PC. Now I CAN NOT WAIT to swap my games this way in the future. PSABR on my Vita and the urge to play Sly 4? No problem, just boot the PC up and a quick 30 minutes later the games are swapped and you are good to go! Fuck this shit. This is not how portable gaming works.
The bottom line of this post is this: The storage premium is way too high to make this promotion worthwile for anyone but the most hardcore and dedicated Sony followers.
There are no 4gb vita games for download. The biggest ones are around 1.5 gb. And Escape plan is 800MB. But please continue to complain about free stuff.
Uncharted is over 3GB big, Resistance is over 3GB big, Wipeout with those DLC packs is pretty damn big. You think PSABR, Sly4 and Ratchet and Clank will be smaller then those games? And Escape Plan used up about 2096MB of my 8GB memory card without any of the non-free DLC. PSP games also easily break the 1GB mark. The premium for storage on the Vita is too high considering the size of the games, I stand by this. I have a 32GB card in my 3DS that cost me about 20€ and the content is 50-200MB each. Bottom line is, the vita makes me constantly work around certain limitations while the 3DS does not. It's just a half assed, not very well thought out device.
Well I don't disagree with you that vita memory cards are overpriced. But your complaint is basically "why can't I hold all these free games?"
