Handheld consoles may soon go extinct

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TheGoldenBoy said:

fps_d0minat0r said:

TheGoldenBoy said:

fps_d0minat0r said:
The problem is the price. Theres fewer grown ups interested in handhelds than kids and the higher the price, the less likely parents will buy their kids a handheld console instead of another toy.
Vita 2 needs to be launched at ~£160 and accept microSD cards instead of their own expensive ones.

Or their proprietary cards have to at least be able to compete with microSD cards in value. 

which they never will

I never had a PSP but I heard that their cards were priced competitively with microSD cards? I would assume they could do the same with Vita. It would probably help the sales as well—even if only a bit.

PSP used memory stick pro duo which was made by sony but it was a format which was used by other devices other than the PSP and sony could license the manufacturing of the cards to other companies. It was a larger scale operation so prices could be driven down unlike with the vita memory cards which only work with vita and are only made by sony.

Also, there were tons of fake memory stick pro duo's on the market so that disrupted the prices of the genuine ones too. With the vita memory, Sony basically has everything under control how they want it to be and I have a feeling thats gonna stay the same for the next handheld.