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FinalEvangelion on 03 December 2011

I've never been a fan of the nickel and diming by these companies. That was one of the good things about the PS3, so it's disappointing to see Sony backpetal on that.



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Dr.Grass on 03 December 2011

More money for Sony. Complain all you want, but this won't stop you from buying a Vita.



Monges79 on 03 December 2011

Hopefully people will keep complaining, and they will lower the cost of the memory cards. Of course, if they don't sell that many, they will definately lower them.



forest-spirit on 03 December 2011
RolStoppable said:
forest-spirit said:
Still doesn't excuse the damn price...The format is still inconvenient as you can't transfer data between a PC and the Vita using the card without a converter (I'm sure there are transfer cables for that purpose?) but it's the price that is the main fail part.
Looking at the market for portable consoles or portable gaming in general Sony would want to encourage gamers to download games and extra content but they are not doing that by screwing people over with overpriced cards...

Seriously, Nintendo (hopefully they have learned their lesson) and Sony seems to be doing everything to make matters worse for them, and with the huge threat from mobile gaming they just can't afford to make many mistakes.

Mobile gaming is a minor threat at the very best. It's time that you return to the real world and leave that fairy land where iPads are also a threat to the Wii.


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Runa216 on 03 December 2011

I'm still getting a 32 gig one. and 30 bucks isn;t bad for a 4 gig. Not good, but not horrible either.



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TadpoleJackson on 03 December 2011
Runa216 said:
I'm still getting a 32 gig one. and 30 bucks isn;t bad for a 4 gig. Not good, but not horrible either.


How isn't it bad? Looking at Amazon I can get most 32GB sd cards for around that price...



Kynes on 12 December 2011

$120 may seem expensive for 32 gigabytes of memory, but these aren't just gigabytes. These are Sony Premium Gigabytes.



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superchunk on 12 December 2011

That's a horrible answer and quite wrong.

They could have accomplished this with 16GB internal flash built it and then allowed a SD card slot for expanding. Could of easily kept security and other issues tied to the internal memory while expansion was utilized for other media or raw binary game data.

Real answer is they knew it would decrease cost to manufacture Vita as well as dramatically increase revenue due to accessory sales of overpriced proprietary SD card.



Lostplanet22 on 12 December 2011

and their was I spending 40 Euro for an 8 MB memorycard.



 

scottie on 12 December 2011

Ugh, I would admire the company that actually admitted it was all about the $. Every single time a company gets in trouble for using propriety, they claim that their products are the only ones that can be trusted.