[onQ123]

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[LiK]

gonna be way overpriced.

[UltimaPooh]

Glad to know what a cleaning cloth looks like. I almost forgot.

[Nemo]

Is that for games or are they ditching SD cards?

[outunderthestars]

Is that for games or are they ditching SD cards?

it's a variation on their M2 cards. The games use a custom media cart that is larger than these.

[KingDizzi]

I will pay a large premium for dat cleaning cloth

[vazel]

gonna be way overpriced.

Sony sure does love their overpriced proprietary formats. At least it's always good quality and performance.

[Truespeed]

I like that they labeled the cleaning cloth. It shows attention to detail. Although, I would have called it a fingerprint rag instead.

[StuBurns]

$40, $80, $160 and $320.

[CrankyJay]

LOL cleaning cloth

[Nemo]

it's a variation on their M2 cards. The games use a custom media cart that is larger than these.

Ah OK then. Thanks

[Combichristoffersen]

Will the cleaning cloth be backwards compatible with the PSP?

[BackwardsSuggestions]

Could swear that cleaning cloth won an award or something.

[DrFunk]

$40, $80, $160 and $320.

lol

[bud]

a cleaning cloth is not enough. they're going to announce a horizontal stand soon, surely?

[ROBOKITTYZILLA]

If the price is anything like what I expect from Sony then I'll probably avoid picking one up for a bit since you can save game data directly to the game's flash-based cart (and to the cloud).

[Carl]

Will the cleaning cloth be backwards compatible with the PSP?

Only 1000 models

[a Master Ninja]

Fuck Sony up it's proprietary ass.

[angelfly]

32GB seems rather small IMO. Especially so for someone planning to keep a lot of PSP games on it (me). But if that's the largest offered at launch I'll definitely be going for that one.

[xbhaskarx]

Do they have any cleaning cloths with higher thread counts?

[Wario64]

I hope someone makes some hacked thingy so we can use a micro SD.

[squall211]

I'll be picking up the 32GB most likely. Between PSX games and PSP games I've downloaded, I could probably fill up about half of that card right now.

[Truespeed]

BTW, that's not an ordinary micro-fiber cleaning cloth. OLED screens need to be cleaned with a special Corinthian fiber cloth.

[Minsc]

$40, $80, $160 and $320.

I know you're being sarcastic, but people were saying suggesting they might sell the high end one (32GB) at $100 was fud, I really don't think it's out of the realm of possibility.

I definitely don't think they'd sell the largest memory card for over the price of the Vita itself, that'd be ridiculous. Probably why they aren't selling a 64GB model.

I think I'll go for a 32GB as that's what I have now for my PSP and it's basically full, shame they didn't put out a 64GB card.

[MisterAnderson]

I guess its too much to ask for my psp memory stick to work on the Vita.

[Truespeed]

Fuck Sony up it's proprietary ass.

The cleaning cloth is not proprietary.

[Jinfash]

I paid $120 dollars for my first 1GB stick back in 2005. Then again all flash media was a lot more expensive at the time, and now they're dirt cheap, so I wonder how much Sony is gonna charge for that "propriety" premium?

If the 32GB stick has a 3 digit price I'm gonna FURIOUSLY complain on message boards and twitter. That'll teach them.

[Slime]

Vita to be $599 USD with decent memory card confirmed.

Hype deflated.

[Combichristoffersen]

Only 1000 models

That's a shame. I have a 3000, would've bought the cleaning cloth day 1 if it had BC with the PSP-3000.

[onQ123]

Will the cleaning cloth be backwards compatible with the PSP?

only if you buy it at launch before they take it away.

[Vamphuntr]

I guess we will also get third party memory cards too. Hopefully they will be cheaper.

[King Cobra]

I hope someone makes some hacked thingy so we can use a micro SD.

Micro SD on average have horrible read and write rates, unless you get the more expensive grade 10 versions. In which case will most likely prove to be more expensive than these cards. I imagine the 32gb one to be $99

[SalsaShark]

Fuck Sony up it's proprietary ass.

yup

[UnluckyKate]

I just got two of the exact same cleaning cloth for free when I swing by my optician this afternoon. Sony better not be pricing these.

[M3d10n]

Well, gotta recoup the HW losses somewhere and MS had no problems selling overpriced storage all these years.

Are there any other devices that can use those or are they really Vita-proprietary?

[soultron]

Boo on another proprietary format.

I want a PSV, but paying the Sony tax for this stuff won't be fun.

[Jinfash]

Fuck Sony up it's proprietary ass.

You'll still need a 32-pin penis in order to do that.

[outunderthestars]

32GB seems rather small IMO. Especially so for someone planning to keep a lot of PSP games on it (me). But if that's the largest offered at launch I'll definitely be going for that one.

The 32GB would be double what the m2 standard has offered before..... I don't think we'll see a 64 for another year or so.

[ntropy]

Sony does this for the love of gaming!

[StuBurns]

I know you're being sarcastic, but people were saying suggesting they might sell the high end one (32GB) at $100 was fud, I really don't think it's out of the realm of possibility. I definitely don't think they'd sell the largest memory card for over the price of the Vita itself, that'd be ridiculous. Probably why they aren't selling a 64GB model. I think I'll go for a 32GB as that's what I have now for my PSP and it's basically full, shame they didn't put out a 64GB card.

I have two very different logical ideas of their approach. They stand to gain from making these cheap so people can buy from the PSN store more easily, so they should make them dirt cheap. However if they were dirt cheap there wouldn't be four options, there'd be one.

Seriously I expect the 32GB to be $70 - $80 range.

[onQ123]

32GB seems rather small IMO. Especially so for someone planning to keep a lot of PSP games on it (me). But if that's the largest offered at launch I'll definitely be going for that one.

if you got money to buy enough games to fill up 32GB that quickly you have enough money to buy another card.

[Minsc]

Micro SD on average have horrible read and write rates, unless you get the more expensive grade 10 versions. In which case will most likely prove to be more expensive than these cards. I imagine the 32gb one to be $99

Yea, it worked out pretty well for the PSP, because the UMD drive was almost 1995 1x CD-ROM slow. So as slow as they are, they were still a step up from UMD. However compared to normal SDHC memory sticks, Micro SD is shit, and probably won't even run games properly if they are made to read at the higher speeds.

[DMPrince]

at least the min is 4gb.

[baekshi]

might need multiples :\

[Jinfash]

I have two very different logical ideas of their approach. They stand to gain from making these cheap so people can buy from the PSN store more easily, so they should make them dirt cheap. However if they were dirt cheap there wouldn't be four options, there'd be one. Seriously I expect the 32GB to be $70 - $80 range.

That's honestly the highest I'm willing to go, and even then I won't be thrilled about it.

[ShockingAlberto]

8GB needs to be packed in, in my opinion.

Or I'd really, really like it to be, at least.

I get the feeling memory prices are going to be what throws my Vita purchasing decision in flux.

[sixteen-bit]

$40, $80, $160 and $320.

How much for the cloth though?

[Anony]

NO FUCK
JUST FUCKING HELL SONY

[Eltacoman]

Why the hell isn't there internal storage?

[sillymonkey321]

The pricing of these may be the tipping point on whether i get a vita or not at launch.