Current Events > Just thinking back to PS Vita memory card prices still aggravates me

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The Popo
02/05/22 6:05:44 PM
#1:


At the launch of the Vita, which did not have any memory built in, forcing buyers to also get a memory card:

PS Vita = $249 (WiFi only version)

4GB memory card = $29.99
8GB memory card = $44.99
16GB memory card = $69.99
32GB memory card = $119.99

So a 32GB card was nearly 50% of the cost of the console.

Seriously, how did they shit the bed so hard with this idea.

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GameGodOfAll
02/05/22 6:07:01 PM
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Shit was egregious.

As much as I love my Vita for what it is, it absolutely should have failed like it did.

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SydneySweenHero
02/05/22 6:07:23 PM
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Yeah, the vita is such a good piece of hardware and they had to get too greedy and make expensive proprietary memory cards. I think that's pretty much one of the major factors that killed the Vita from the start.

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DarkChozoGhost
02/05/22 6:08:56 PM
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Propriety memory cards too, when even Nintendo had switched to SD cards 3 years earlier

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Flauros
02/05/22 6:11:17 PM
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The funny part is the prices never dropped.

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crazygamer21
02/05/22 6:41:57 PM
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And it's made even worse with how unreliable and prone to failure they are. Such a shame Sony set the Vita up to fail like that. Thankfully we can easily use normal microsd cards these days.

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Trumpo
02/05/22 6:46:25 PM
#7:


Hack it and use a regular sd card
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CRON
02/05/22 6:46:40 PM
#8:


Trumpo posted...
Hack it and use a regular sd card


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Unsugarized_Foo
02/05/22 6:47:11 PM
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Trumpo posted...
Hack it and use a regular sd card

Yas

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YugiNoob
02/05/22 6:52:02 PM
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That's odd. My 64 GB ones were $99.99.

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Zikten
02/05/22 7:24:38 PM
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There are stories that people inside Sony wanted to sabotage the Vita for some reason
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Bishop9800
02/05/22 8:23:24 PM
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Zikten posted...
There are stories that people inside Sony wanted to sabotage the Vita for some reason


For some reason, I believe that.

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The Popo
02/06/22 9:51:18 AM
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Trumpo posted...
Hack it and use a regular sd card

Sure, that can be done. But the vast majority of console/handheld owners werent going to go to those lengths. They want something that is ready to use right out of the box and incredibly user friendly.

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Questionmarktarius
02/06/22 10:19:08 AM
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There's an adapter that's not the card-slot one?
I just want cheap storage. Taking up the cartridge slot means I pretty much have to pirate - or go all-digital, which is even more undesirable.
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Error1355
02/06/22 10:19:58 AM
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I never paid full price for a Vita memory card, thankfully.

Still cost way too fucking much.

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saspa
02/06/22 11:05:57 AM
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So that's why mine got corrupted! They were already prone to corruption beforehand and other people had the same issue? It affected my saves, the game pages, everything, was very upsetting.

The vita is what the psp should have been from the start, two analog sticks and everything.

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