GameStop Leaks Vita Memory Card Pricing

[Just_A_Glitch]

Hey, that little bit of interest I had in the Vita, solely because of a portable UMVC3, just went from "eh" to "no".

Good job Sony.

 

[Siege_TF]

The difference between the PSP and the Vita isn't exactly the difference between the Gameboy and the Gameboy Colour, and Sony is going to learn that lesson very painfully soon.

 

[Koroviev]

I'm a fan of handheld gaming, but not at that price. Here's hoping that there are third-party alternatives by the time the re-release of Persona 4 rolls around.

 

[Something Amyss]

they actually manage to cost around ten times more per gigabyte than Microsft's already absurdly overpriced 250GB harddrive - which is an achievement unto itself.

Achievement Unlocked: Out-douched the master.

Somewhere, a child is crying.

Seriously, this is pretty much a guarantee I won't be buying it.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

So um... this is a mistake, right?

Come on, Sony, I've been rooting for you. I was actually going to get a Vita and everything.

 

[Treblaine]

They miss the christmas launch window and then add on this memory card. With the 3DS sales climbing with Super Mario 3D land, and Mario kart and consol bundles on the way it looks like Soney is going to hand nintendo this generation again.

You know what I think is more damning than 3DS's rising sales is what a poor start it has had.

There is BARELY room for one handheld in this market as Nintendo is scraping by with $160 still being too much for most gamers, now they are charging that much for just one of the memory cards! And 3DS will likely have well over a year's head start to the market and Apple can easilly undercut the PSV or add on something that will screw everything!

The thing is there isn't a niche for handhelds any more. They were for a time when people had to fit video games around their lives. Now we can fit our lives around our video games. handhelds were great when we were kids stuck waiting on busses and can't play nintendo on TV when your big sister wants to watch MTV. But now we likely have our own TV and our own console, or own PC, we have more structured lives.

Handhelds are great for commuting only if you are driven, not if your drive.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

Oh Sony, you've figured out a new way to fuck with your customers. Well done. I'm used to getting boned by Sony these days so this doesn't really surprise me.

 

[dochmbi]

These memory cards have such insanely high profit margins that I'm sure a chinese company will make a knock-off and sell it at 1/3 of the price.

 

[mew4ever23]

As if I needed another reason not to buy this thing. What a fail, Sony. What a fail.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

So, if I'm understanding this correctly...

3DS: Overpriced, annoying gimmick with samey games that we've all seen a hundred times before.

Vita: Overpriced, annoying gimmick that's essentially an iPod Touch with better graphics that is attempting to squeeze every single bit of money out of the buyer's wallet.



... So, did the CEOs of both companies suddenly decide, "Ya know what we should stop giving a shit about? The handheld market."

 

[remnant_phoenix]

Times like this make me want to give a stronger embrace to smartphones as the new portable gaming option.

I'd be first in line to argue that mobile gaming isn't going to replace the type of gaming we see on PC and consoles, but in the world of portable gaming? I'd rather stick with the kinds of games that I can get on my iPod Touch than fork out all the money for a fancy portable (at present, the 3DS or Vita) and everything extra you have to buy to make it worthwhile.

 

[nebtheslayer95]

the picture accompanying this article is just too perfect . Luckily I have moved away from my old hand-held gaming addiction, so I can stay out of the red when Vita comes out. Yay me.

 

[insanelich]

I won't troll you like that other fellow Outrageous Emu seems to be doing, but understand that thus far, the 3DS has been utterly unimpressive. Yeah, I know Zelda remake and Star Fox remake and a new Mario Kart and a new Mario 3D platformer and yadda yadda. Same old song and dance. Meanwhile, the Vita has quite an attractive lineup that seems, to me, far more inventive and impressive than anything Nintendo's releasing. Sorry. Opinions.

To be fair, I have to admit the 3DS lineup isn't impressive.

... but the Vita lineup is so impressive I'm getting an iPhone.

 

[Mad World]

Out of principle alone, I don't think that I'd get a Vita. If they're going to charge outrageous prices for their memory cards, at least include the smallest-amount card with the system.

 

[FamoFunk]

I'm gonna sit back and wait for a price drop. I have patience.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

Just blowing off steam. Maybe the cards will be egregiously overpriced at release -- just like Wii cards, which have dropped to somewhere between "badly overpriced" and "somewhat overpriced"

Wii cards? Pretty sure every nintendo console of the last few years (Wii, DSI, 3DS) uses standard SD cards. You know, the ones that cost nothing?


OT: To be fair, they need to make some money back on the initial sales (selling console at a loss). Yet this seems ridiculous. I would like to see some sort of justification for the cost of these memory cards. This doesn't make me less likely to buy one though- just going to wait until I know the third party equivalent for half the price works.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

That's what they always do though. Remember the original cost of memory cards for the PSP and PS2?

The difference then, however, was that the PS2 was a fairly significant upgrade in space from the PS1 memory cards (at least for the time).

This is just plain bullshit now, though. Since we've hit so many standardised ways of storing data, this shouldn't happen.

 

[Spud of Doom]

That's just silly. I'm going to wait for the inevitable dodgy 3rd party knock-offs on DealExtreme or adapters from other formats.

 

[EricKei]

Wii cards? Pretty sure every nintendo console of the last few years (Wii, DSI, 3DS) uses standard SD cards. You know, the ones that cost nothing?

That's what I was referring to -- But the thing is, not ALL SD cards work reliably in the system (There were massive "Post your SD card results from your Wii" threads on some boards -- many cards worked fine, some glitched out, some simply were not even recognized even if they were within the card size limit), and Ninty tends to insist that you should ONLY use the ones they officially endorse. During the first year or two of the Wii's release, in particular, these "Wii-branded and guaranteed to work" SD cards were typically sold for at least double the price of similar SD cards from anybody else, especially the ones sold at actual video game and bigbox stores.

 

[madster11]

Sony need to fuck right off with their stupid memory card bullshit and adopt SD. The format every single other device and company on the planet uses.

No PSV for me if Sony are gonna pull this sort of bullshit pricing.