I paid 30 for a 64 GB SD card. If you paid 40 bucks for a 16 GB flash drive any time recently, you got ripped. But in terms of the cost vs the card? Yeah, that's kind of an issue. And honestly, it's not necessarily about what someone "can" afford. Quite often, it's about what they will pay. When someone overvalues their product, people balk. When your storage is as much as another whole game, people will balk. They also have pretty poor read/write speeds, so people will balk. Sorry.Lillowh said:The 16GB memory card is only $40 on Amazon (My 16Gb Flash drive was just about as expensive, barring discounts)
That makes little sense, unless retailers also cut a deal. I've been told the markup on the suckers is low at Wal-Mart, so unless other retailers are getting a special deal, it seems like Sony is the one getting the cash.PMAvers said:You know, I'd swear I remember reading something about the memory card prices where basically it was due to retail stores refusing to stock the Vita unless they *were* expensive, since everyone would just buy their games off PSN instead of buying physical copies. Seeing how petty retail stores can be... I can totally see that happening.
So, how many hours of play does that memory card give[footnote]Of course, granted 0 games, but that kills the joke![/footnote]?Lillowh said:I completely agree, but the reasoning some games like MGS are not available to buy directly through the PS Vita is because of people finding a way to implement homebrew that require such specific games because of a vulnerability, and other such as licensing as you said. I absolutely love my Vita, and I also disagree with you saying games come in drips and drabs, there's tons of great vita games coming out now that some of the much larger Japaneese catalogue is finally getting localized.
Also, the memory cards are not a huge issue. If you can afford the Vita, you should be able to afford the memory cards. I don't see why people can complain about a lack of release and the memory cards at the same time. If you can't spend the money to buy one of their memory cards, what makes you think you're going to buy a much larger sequence of game releases? The 16GB memory card is only $40 on Amazon (My 16Gb Flash drive was just about as expensive, barring discounts), and that's the price of one new Vita game. And that thing will hold 4+. If money for memory cards are an issue, you probably aren't going to be buying the games if it had SD memory.
I think it goes back to what Moviebob said in his Game Overthinker V39 "The Emperor Has No Clothes"--thanks to Nintendo and Saga majorly dropping the ball in the early 1990s Sony became a major player in the game company market without really understanding what they were doing. They were the man with one eye in a kingdom of the blind but the blindness didn't last and now it has been a case of watch Nintendo and Microsoft do a much better job of selling their consoles.Uriel_Hayabusa said:I think Jim nailed it in an earlier vid when he said that Sony is basically begging for piracy. It's such a pity that they still haven't learned their lessons.
IMHO that would be considered price fixing...something Apple just into major trouble with the DOJ with regarding the ebook market.PMAvers said:You know, I'd swear I remember reading something about the memory card prices where basically it was due to retail stores refusing to stock the Vita unless they *were* expensive, since everyone would just buy their games off PSN instead of buying physical copies. Seeing how petty retail stores can be... I can totally see that happening.
Or at least what happens when you don't support copyright reform. That system is so broken.dbenoy said:This is what happens when you support copyright.
"Big non-sequitur ahead cap'n!"dbenoy said:This is what happens when you support copyright.
You know I wondered about that. I remember putting off a Vita purchase when a clerk in my favourite game store told me this was in the plans. Seems like a completely shitty thing to do, but then why court us dirty foreigners with our dirty foreign money? Not like there's any money to be made in the long run.. oh wait.Vicioussama said:You know, it pissed me off that when Sony first announced the vita they announced a plan to have you trade in old UMDs from the PSP to be a digital copy so you can play it on your Vita or PSP. Instead they removed that and made it Japan only, telling us to "buy it again on the PSN store" basically. That pissed me off so much.
I really don't get why Sony isn't investing more into the PS Vita either.
I guess so. I remembered a post in which the CEO of Sony, Shueshei Yoshida, said that they will put all their games on smartphones and tablets after the discontinuation of the PS4. Just think a little about that.themilo504 said:I think that the reason Sony is largely ignoring the vita, is because they think that the rise of mobile gaming is going to kill handhelds.
I don't agree with this statement. I think its bullshit since Sony was already making video games long before anyone thought that they would make a console. Granted, most of the time their games were crappy, but it would rather be idiotic on Sony's part if they did not use their time and energy to understand nintendo's policies.maximara said:I think it goes back to what Moviebob said in his Game Overthinker V39 "The Emperor Has No Clothes"--thanks to Nintendo and Saga majorly dropping the ball in the early 1990s Sony became a major player in the game company market without really understanding what they were doing. They were the man with one eye in a kingdom of the blind but the blindness didn't last and now it has been a case of watch Nintendo and Microsoft do a much better job of selling their consoles.Uriel_Hayabusa said:I think Jim nailed it in an earlier vid when he said that Sony is basically begging for piracy. It's such a pity that they still haven't learned their lessons.