Could Nintendo do anything wrong with the 3DS that would allow the Vita to over take it in a few years?

[Egann]

Viper1 said:

Egann said:

DemoniOtaku said:

That's Why I ask him.. because I own a PSVita and I'm sure that the MemCards are as small as a MicroSD... I'm sure I would know sometime ago about it, if it exist...

Could have sworn I found one. Apparently not.

Still, the Vita card being the same size as a microSD isn't a good enough reason for a passive adapter to not exist: you can trim cards down to fit. I know multiple people who have trimmed their SIM cards down into MicroSIM slots.

The physical parameters are not the only restriction.  The PS Vita memory cards contain circuitry that holds encryption keys.  An adapter wouldn't have that circuitry, nor would the microSD card, inside making it completely unsuable even if you could get beyond the physical problem.

Yes,  because the PS3's private key totally didn't get hacked and publicly released. And that had the added advantage of separating the public key from the private one. Encryption is great to keep individual packets of information secure when you've got a server to handle the encrypyion.  It's not so good when the encryption is done inside a little memory chip and it's a server farm doing the cracking. 

I would totally love to see somebody make a beowulf cluster of raspberry pis to crack the Vita card, though. Or, even worse, use the PS3's private key to side-load Linux on it, then set up a beowulf cluster of PS3's. Irony is served.