ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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The Vita is easily available for these prices before the price cut. No big deal really.
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Sony cuts PS Vita price to $199.99, reduces cost of memory cards
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Zen_Arcade
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I'm not paying $80 for a 32gb memory card Sony. Get your shit together.
Is it through a cable or wifi though? I cant be bothered to actually take out the memory card.
Napalm_Frank
Member
USB cable
Everyone always wants more.
PS VITA Game Sizes
16GB for $40 will still provide you with a substantial amount of space to play/download digital games. 32GB is if you're going to use it for literally everything (lots of music and movies).
PS VITA Game Sizes
16GB for $40 will still provide you with a substantial amount of space to play/download digital games. 32GB is if you're going to use it for literally everything (lots of music and movies).
ArkkAngel007
Member
Titles like Persona and Uncharted together would take up half of that space. If you're going all digital, it doesn't leave much room to work with. Some people don't want to continuously juggle items through PSN (or even able to, with time or location), and 16 GB at 39.99 is still pricey in that market.
Arguments like yours is what is frustrating (to be honest, disgusting), because it's ignoring the actual issues and targeting the other side. Buying the hardware should be the bar of entry, not some little piece of plastic and copper.
Liferebooted
Banned
Persona is 3gb o.o
MackAttack
Banned
No, 32GB is absolutely necessary if you buy digital, especially if you have PS+. I think I have 50-60GB of Vita games. If they were $50, I'd probably have three already to fit my PSP and PSOne games too.
DeliciousDoc
Member
Be nice if they did something about that "bend over backwards to have more than 1 region/account per vita" thing but I guess lower priced memory cards facilitates the process a little bit.
ArkkAngel007
Member
Oops I meant both haha. Will edit to clarify that.
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
Yeah, it's not quite 8gb between them.. but still.. the guy posting that 32gb is some kind of amazing amount of space is crazy.
If you got PS+ for any length of time that 32gb can disappear quick I'm sure.
32gb is enough to not be pissy about what you can and can't have on it.. but swapping to the PC or PS3 is time consuming and fuck that.. give me more space and cheaper.
Wow that is some backwards thinking right there. I have a 3DS and I try to get everything digital nowadays. They even came out with a Cartridge to SD card transfer app for folks like me that are even getting some of the back catalog digitally.
Thanks to the 128GB class 10 Sandisk SD card I got for $45. I never have to worry about memory issues again. But you go ahead and get price gouged for that 16GB inferior memory card. It's your money.
You can backup saves to another SD card, which would cost you about the same price as a month of PS+ or even for free if you use the SD card that came in the box. And guess what, you can keep those saves forever and not lose them when you unsubscribe because there is no subscription required.
Although the process is complicated, you can save a copy of your saves on a PC as well.
I only use my Vita for games, have only had it since the end of November, and have been out of space on my 32 GB card for MONTHS now. Constantly having to delete/shuffle games around.
PS+ and all those PSP and PSOne games make that space disappear fast.
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Deleted member 125677
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I'm not dead certain, but hasn't it been possible to get a Vita for £199 for a long time in EU? Memory cards still to expensive IMO
RedAssedApe
Banned
Not really a drastic price cut on memory card.
Waldo Lydecker
Member
Time to start bombing Sony with #SlashVitaCardPrices?
Or #Vita128gbCard?
Or #Vita128gbCard?
TechnicPuppet
Nothing! I said nothing!
So what are the UK prices then? Especially for memory cards.
That is probably because you mostl like find one for 149 soon - right?!? Got mine last christmas on Cyber Monday for 149 incl. All Stars and LBP.
Duxxy3
Member
That's what they should push. The standalone unit with no extras is still a shitty value. Vita bundles at $199 are a decent value.
Was 179 in germany, but bundle sold out.
And even with new releases still being sparse, existing library is pretty good, if you buy one now.
ArchedThunder
Banned
If I can get a memory card for cheaper I might bite.
Yup. The memory card gouging is still so bad that it nullifies any price drop.
Waldo Lydecker
Member
This x 10000
Those prices don't irritate me at all, it's the freaking small sizes.
Give me that 64gb or 128gb cards and we're talking!
akidnamededdy
Banned
Enjoy your $200 memory cards...yeesh.
immortal-joe
Member
Sold --__--
Sure. Put me down for a 128GB.
Audioboxer
Member
I need to know this.
Shin Johnpv
Member
Until Memory card prices reach parity or atleast are CLOSE to SD card prices, Sony can fuck off. I'll make do with the 4gig that came with my system and just not buy any PSN games for it. No way am I paying 80 bucks for 32 fucking gigs. Get Bent Sony.
Opus Angelorum
Member
Most likely they'll translate 1:1 with the US pricing, maybe the 32GB being £5-10 cheaper.
Tescos have reduced the 32GB card to £49 ($76).
http://www.tesco.com/direct/psvita-memory-card-32gb/753-4195.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=753-4195
There have also been plenty of bundles around the £150-£160 mark, the one below was just under £140.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/ps-...nted-digital-4gb-card-139-97-gamestop-1448658
Using that logic 200 euros (£170) for just the console is a price rise, of course that's not quite fair as they're sale prices not RRP, an official price-drop could lead to even cheaper deals.
http://www.tesco.com/direct/psvita-memory-card-32gb/753-4195.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=753-4195
There have also been plenty of bundles around the £150-£160 mark, the one below was just under £140.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/ps-...nted-digital-4gb-card-139-97-gamestop-1448658
Using that logic 200 euros (£170) for just the console is a price rise, of course that's not quite fair as they're sale prices not RRP, an official price-drop could lead to even cheaper deals.
lol...mte.
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Deleted member 1235
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Finally.
Though those memory card prices are still over the top expensive.. :/
Sony's insistence to push a stupid memory format is why I've boycotted them ever since they invented that. I've never owned Sony hardware and probably will not until they abolish that crap memory stick system.
Could not agree more. Sony is the only company I've ever actually boycotted I think. Been doing so for over 10 years now.
At first I was a little bummed when I heard about this since I recently bought one, but then I realized I paid roughly the same price for mine except I also got a 16gb memory card 
Memory card prices are still insane though, I don't think I would buy a Vita for 200 and a big memory card on top of that.
Memory card prices are still insane though, I don't think I would buy a Vita for 200 and a big memory card on top of that.
Vicetrailia
Member
Honestly, this memory card situation is disgraceful. This is an incredibly severe showing of ineptitude and is just terrible value for customers, everything about it is wrong. Damn I wish they actually cared about this.
If I ever got one for P4G, no way in hell I'd buy anything bigger than an 8 GB memory card at those prices. That in itself means I wouldn't be impulse buying anything of substance from PSN. I get that they are aware of what they're losing money on, but this has to be a consequence of that pricing.