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Chunkysatsuma said:
Yes Sony is totally being reasonable.

Sure you will need two memory cards (which are close to £100 for the decent sizes)
Sure you will have to buy each piece of DLC twice if you want more than one person to be able to use it.
Sure there is no actual reason for them to do this other then stealing our money

BUT.....wait I think I missed the part where they were being reasonable actually

I think getting knocked down from their throne broke their brains a little. Though considering that they made a lot of stupid moves while they were still on it it raises the question on whether Sony has ever been smart about gaming



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Euphoria14 said:

The only thing I believe should happen to quiet much of the complaining would have been to package the Vita with a 2-4GB card.

By the way, have these US memory card prices been confirmed or are they placeholders? Hopefully, similar to the PSP, the cards come down in price. That or some 3rd party companies release clone cards.

 

I also hope that since it is cart based we end up getting a Pro Action Replay for the Vita. :)

If they were selling it for $200 with 32 gigs built in people would find something else to complain about ;)



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Well at least it's better than having to buy a second PSVita... Switching accounts is such a pain that I play on 2 PSPs. Having to buy 2 cards is not that bad, it makes sense to me to differentiate European content from the Japanese content.



So would you still be able to share games then? My gf and I both have psp's, which are both activated on my ps3, and it's easy to share our digital psp/ps1 games between us. If content is locked to one account on a memory card for Vita it doesn't seem like it.




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Euphoria14 said:
theprof00 said:
Why do you need multiple accounts? I just don't get it.


To access titles unavailable in your region.

even though it's region free?

Is the argument seriously that you can't manipulate the system anymore?

You guys do know that it'll be hacked a year in and then you can stop bitchin' right?

Here's the complaints I've heard so far in this thread:

I won't be able to "share games" with people. (unsubstantiated btw, we don't know that for sure)
I have to buy 2 mem cards because I don't want anyone else playing on my precious psn account.
I can't download specific games from other regions from PSN, I'll have to buy the physical copy.



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smbu2000 said:
So would you still be able to share games then? My gf and I both have psp's, which are both activated on my ps3, and it's easy to share our digital psp/ps1 games between us. If content is locked to one account on a memory card for Vita it doesn't seem like it.

 No one knows, they changed the PS3 sharing policy so that all PSN games now are assigned to two PS3 consoles, but you can control which two. If the Vita has the same thing I'd guess you could share them either between two PSN accounts (i.e. rotating memory cards on one Vita) or two Vita consoles entirely and you're free to transfer whatever you want between cards if it's the same console.

 It's not clear at this stage.

 I'm not entirely sure if the whole not using multiple region accounts is a valid argument either. As far as i know atm you can use your PS3 to go on whatever region PS store you want, and download whatever PSP stuff from there you want and transfer it? Why would this be different for Vita?



This might have something to do with save data...

But what ever. People will complain and call it whatever they want. I think this idea makes sense and it's fairly reasonable.



4 ≈ One

I couldn't care less about multiple PSN accounts.I've been using a single one ever since 2008.



smbu2000 said:
So would you still be able to share games then? My gf and I both have psp's, which are both activated on my ps3, and it's easy to share our digital psp/ps1 games between us. If content is locked to one account on a memory card for Vita it doesn't seem like it.

If you don't care about trophies you can always use someone else account or even create a new one for each memory card and put content on it to share it like normal discs.



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great news for me cause 1 memory card even 32gb will never be enough for my multiple region contents anyway...

so have them seperately is reasonable to me...

and i don't have to always activate it whenever i'm switch account like the PSP... yeah!!! ^o^