I've been saying it for a long time: the PSVita will be dead on arrival. No Monster Hunter game, requires expensive memory card, no killer apps, over $300 for the wifi version when you included the tax and memory card. Nintendo won the handheld war again.

I'm sorry but that is just completely bad form.

You are buying something where the manufacturer is clearly raping its end user. There is NO reason in the world Sony couldn't have just used normal SD Cards for memory expansion.

Even Nintendo who has never put video playback in its systems to avoid minor licensing fees, throws in a little free memory and allows standard SD card upgrades.

Its just pathetic that Sony continues to force its own media and memory cards down users throats. Its even more pathetic that users continue the climb aboard the sheep train vs not buying and forcing Sony to change paths.

You should be paying no more than $250 for it to work for nearly all games out the door. You shouldn't be required to bay $50 for something that costs $5 elsewhere to play what seems likely to be a lot of games.

I hope I'm blowing this out of proportion and this external memory is only required for a handful of games... but knowing Sony, its probably not. You'd think they would have learned their lesson in how SD cards are nearly 100% of market and the older MemorySticks never left Sony... just pathetic.

50$ is not that big of a problem, its the same and if they sell the Vita for 300$, which is fine to me. Not a matter of being sheep though. Its a matter of having enough money to play all RPGs :). That being said, dead on arrival seems a bit exagerated to me.

I'm not excusing Sony's behavior but as a playstation fan I dont see how this isn't expected. The PS3 and PSPGo are the only playstations one has not had to buy expensive proprietary media for saving because they have internal storage.

I do think they do themselves more harm than good. I was expecting to see 16GB and 32GB models. Even the PSPGo had 16GB onboard storage how did they step backwards?

Not having onboard memory as well as expensive media will make users think twice about downloading games. This should not be the case on the hardware you are subsidizing. You want your users to be downloading games constantly and anything interfering with that is just bad business.

The first PSP hacks came from putting files on their own expensive proprietary format. So to me piracy is no excuse.

This is the only downside to Vita so far as I'm concerned. Though I still want more software. I can never have enough.

That's one less game at launch... maybe.

Selling out at launch? No, but the Vita will not be DOA.  There won't be Monster Hunter, but what makes you think that they couldn' land another systm seller? Killer Apps? Uncharted says hi. I agree with you on the rest.

Pretty much every one of them can be said for PSP's launch, it was not dead on arrival. Vita seems to be a much better handheld than PSP.

It'll definitely sell out at launch because new hardware from Nintendo and Sony always sell out at launch. Vita's fate depends on the sales 2-3 months after launch.

Anyways regarding the news of Vita requiring a memory cards for some games:

Can't they at least include a 512mb memory card with the system? =/