Gotta push memory card sales.
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Vita Will Allow Multiple PSN Accounts, Sony Says
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BattleMonkey
Member
Redesign that uses more memory cards?
Callibretto
Member
Buy retail copy i guess
Frank Jaeger
Member
This keeps getting worse:
1. 3DS price/deals keeps going down cementing Nintendo's position.
2. Outrageous Mem cards for the Vita that make everyone mad at greedy sony
3. Only one PSN profile per vita
and this now. You want more profiles on your Vita? Well better get yours grandmother's pension fund out of the bank!
Aren't they a little afraid? I mean Nintendo clearly was and came from that incredible success with the DS. So what gives?
1. 3DS price/deals keeps going down cementing Nintendo's position.
2. Outrageous Mem cards for the Vita that make everyone mad at greedy sony
3. Only one PSN profile per vita
and this now. You want more profiles on your Vita? Well better get yours grandmother's pension fund out of the bank!
Aren't they a little afraid? I mean Nintendo clearly was and came from that incredible success with the DS. So what gives?
PdotMichael
Banned
If even the memory card solution is such a no-go for gaf, maybe Sony should use the Nintendo solution.
Zeouterlimits
Member
I read the title "Oh wow, so we were wrong, that's awesome!"
*hops into thread*
God damn it Sony.
*hops into thread*
God damn it Sony.
Well, I expect that to happen.
You can't buy anything because there's nothing to download to.
Can't be though, you can factory reset with no card inside.
Bomber Bob
Banned
Make sense since there are rumors that the content of the memory card is encrypted with a key tied to your account
corporate cheerleader
Member
Hahahaahhahaahahahah, awesome.
WrenchNinja
Member
Well hey, on the plus side, you still have an account.
Phonomezer
Banned
PS4: One profile per HDD? 
Lord Ghirahim
Member
Slightly better than the nightmare scenario of a few days ago.
AbsoluteZero
Banned
It's like it's 1995 all over again.
I wonder if the third party ones will be unreliable and randomly wipe your saves from time to time.
Wait, so if the profile is tied to a memory card, if you wanted to move up to a larger size memory card all you have to do is copy everything over? There's not going to be some dumb profile transfer hoops we'd have to go through in terms of deactivation/reactivation right? Right??
I would think you just put in the new card, activate your old account on it and start synching with your PS3/PC to get your old stuff back. Optionally you could start re-downloading (saves would be in the cloud if + member).
I'm guessing all the setting save to the memory card anyway.
djplaeskool
Member
This sounds like storage encryption.
Proprietary security at a cost to the end user.
Brilliant.
Proprietary security at a cost to the end user.
Brilliant.
Will probably still buy two 16GB cards. I am weak.
Paracelsus
Member
PS4: One profile per HDD?
If the HDD is in-house built then sure, bet your ass on it.
They would be stupid if they didn't. Otherwise you could simply swap cards with anyone. Ultimate game sharing.
Give away the razor, make profit off of the blades is the strategy of shaving accessory companies. It's not a bad strategy but I really don't this is that common of a scenario besides hardcore gamers who want to play in multiple regions, so I'm on the side that this sort of fixes the issue...I just am lazy so I will probably end up buying two Vitas eventually.
While it's certainly not ideal, I can live with this. For me, it's better than the current PSP situation.
The card for foreign purchases can be pretty small, since they mostly are RPGs, and I only play one of those games at a time anyway.
You don't seem to be able to earn trophies on your primary account with imported games though?
The card for foreign purchases can be pretty small, since they mostly are RPGs, and I only play one of those games at a time anyway.
You don't seem to be able to earn trophies on your primary account with imported games though?
Bomber Bob
Banned
Could have been tied to the vita S/N
djplaeskool
Member
Hey, that junk ain't funny.
I lost my FFXII save data to that.
Mad Catz got the angriest email.
They should focus on Nintendo first though, I want access to that JPN eShop!
That's nice, changing cards for different account will be much more comfortable than the process of changing an account in a PSP.
Too bad the price of the cards is so insane. But I could see myself buying a second card for a Japanese account in a year or so (hopefully, at lower price).
Too bad the price of the cards is so insane. But I could see myself buying a second card for a Japanese account in a year or so (hopefully, at lower price).
Sounds good, until you have to replace your Vita.
H_Prestige
Banned
How is that any different than sharing game cards you buy at retail?
Sony has utilized this strategy in like forever, they've even gone on account saying they employ a "razor -blades" strategy.
I mean sharing stuff you downloaded off of PSN.
Yeah, you play with each distinct account. That still sucks, but same as PSP.
Anyway, at least it is possible to (conveniently) swap between accounts now - just at the expense of more...err...expense.
Think I'll get a 8GB for a non-primary 'import' account and a 16GB for my regular account. Call me a sucker, but there is a value in being able to 'instantly' import any game over the air.
Bomber Bob
Banned
Then you would have done some kind of license transfer tool like on the 360
thetrin
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My PSN ID is my JP account since I got my PS3 when I was living in Japan, but I buy things off my US account all the time. Will I at least be able to transfer purchases between accounts? This all sounds really stupid.
I think I am extremely ok with this. For organizational purposes this is probably what you want anyway, and now it looks like sharing your Vita with someone else means that you just need to buy another memory card to store their account instead of constantly factory resetting the console. If account switches are as simple as swapping the card then I would be willing to buy the cheapest card to have the convenience of a second account.
Of course, yes, this implies that you will need a memory card to sign into PSN...
Of course, yes, this implies that you will need a memory card to sign into PSN...
Of course not.
According to the Wired article, you CAN change the account on the memory card but you need to reset to factory settings first. Does that mean we can keep files from different accounts on 1 card, and then switch account manually ? But if you have 1 account per card, you obviously don't need to deal with switching and factory defaults.
As ridiculous as the memory card prices are for 2011, things are still much better than they were in 2004. I paid almost $200 for a 1gb memory stick back then for my PSP. >_<
Doesn't excuse the current pricing, but it somehow doesn't seem that bad when considering that.
Doesn't excuse the current pricing, but it somehow doesn't seem that bad when considering that.
Where was this confirmed?
PowerSmell
Member
Different regions though? Otherwise it's just for system sharing with your cohabitants.
djplaeskool
Member
I think there needs to be clarification on what "Reset to Factory Default" implies.