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$32 for the 4GB card. that explains the price of vita heh

Wow. I was expecting an high price but $32 is quite a lot for 4GB.

 

[Gravijah]

Any guess on US memory card prices?

Similar-ish, I would assume. Maybe around 50 for the 16GB, 100 for the 32GB.

 

[Deadly Joker]

Also looks like only the BLACK Vita will be sold at launch.

No WHITE model.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Any guess on US memory card prices?

Probably about the same. These are proprietary Sony cards, they want to maximize profit out of them.

 

[Luigi87]

If you're expecting this to last 5 hours while gaming, then you're in denial.

I think you two are actually on the same side.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

Gotta keep the cost down somehow!

Pretty much. They want to make money.

 

[dallow_bg]

There's two Megami games from Atlus. One is Persona 4, other just says SMT series.

 

[jj984jj]

No memory card? I knew it...

 

[Tenck]

If you're expecting this to last 5 hours while gaming, then you're in denial.

No you!

You can probably get 5 hours if you turn everything to the lowest settings. You would also need to play under some good light to see the screen.

Edit:

I think you two are actually on the same side.

Yeah. I would never expect 5 hours of game time with the Vita.

 

[AgentChris]

There's two Megami games from Atlus. One is Persona 4, other just says SMT series.

Atlus trolled PS3 with a SMT title.

 

[lowrider007]

I'm hoping to get 4 hours on medium brightness with wi-fi disabled and no 3G.

 

[angelfly]

$123 for the 32GB means I might hold off until either the price of the memory drops or a much larger capacity can be had at that price.

 

[Suzzopher]

I'll import a couple of 32GB cards before the Euro launch. High prices for sure :/

 

[ColtraineGF]

Yikes at mem. card prices. Hopefully they will be lower when it launches here, otherwise it'll be perceived as not quite the bargain it first appeared as.

 

[Mastperf]

As much as that sucks, this is a beast of a portable and it will likely be a 1 time only cost for me. I'm willing to pay more for memory in support of Sony's excellent work with the hardware.

 

[lunchwithyuzo]

Just one Level 5 game?

wonder what the level 5 rpg is going to be, could be ni no kuni related, white knight related, dark cloud related or completely new game. quite a few games on that list i'm interested in.

It'll be LBX.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Ugh, Sony is being so stupid about this.

No memory card and ridiculous prices for appropriate storage are going to kill PSN sales.

People are constantly going to have to worry about their fridge.

The PS3 came with a standard HDD! That was great! If anyone should get it, Sony should!

 

[toastyToast]

Memory card 4GB ¥2,200
Memory card 8GB ¥3,200
Memory card 16GB ¥5,500
Memory card 32GB ¥9,500

:<

 

[watershed]

Here are the exact details on battery life:

Reference: About Duration of the Battery>
Game: Approx. 3~5 hours
Video: Approx. 5 hours
Music (in stand-by mode): Approx. 9 hours
* Screen brightness default setting, Bluetooth feature off, headphones used
* Game, when not using the network
* The duration may change depending on the brightness of the screen, what content being played and if
the network (3G/Wi-Fi) feature is being used or not

 

[Deku]

Wait, my existing memory sticks don't work?

I guess I must have not been following that side of it.

 

[Deadly Joker]

Ugh, Sony is being so stupid about this.

No memory card and ridiculous prices for appropriate storage are going to kill PSN sales.

People are constantly going to have to worry about their fridge.

The PS3 came with a standard HDD! That was great! If anyone should get it, Sony should!

Doesn't the 3DS come with a 2GB SD card?

Sony can't even do that?

 

[dreamcastmaster]

3 -5 hours is a bit vague, in reality it's likely to be 3 1/2 for most users.

 

[PSYGN]

Someone should make a microSDHC adapter for it ASAP.

 

[jackdoe]

Ugh, Sony is being so stupid about this.

No memory card and ridiculous prices for appropriate storage are going to kill PSN sales.

People are constantly going to have to worry about their fridge.

The PS3 came with a standard HDD! That was great! If anyone should get it, Sony should!

Yep. It is stupid not to include at the very least a rudimentary storage solution, 2GB at the very least.

 

[Gravijah]

Ugh, Sony is being so stupid about this.

No memory card and ridiculous prices for appropriate storage are going to kill PSN sales.

People are constantly going to have to worry about their fridge.

The PS3 came with a standard HDD! That was great! If anyone should get it, Sony should!

Yeah, this is pretty silly. :/

Doesn't the 3DS come with a 2GB SD card?

Sony can't even do that?

It uses a new proprietary format.

 

[KaYotiX]

As expected those memory cards are expensive

Pretty much called it since I heard there was no internal storage and it not coming with a memory card was well known I thought?

 

[DiscoJer]

Memory card 4GB ¥2,200
Memory card 8GB ¥3,200
Memory card 16GB ¥5,500
Memory card 32GB ¥9,500

:<

So, taking a whild guess at US price, $20, $35, $50, and $99.99

Which I bought my PSP-3000 I guess 2 years ago, my 16 gig was $40. So not that bad if this is only $50. But 16 gigs doesn't even hold all my games from PSN....

Yep. It is stupid not to include at the very least a rudimentary storage solution, 2GB at the very least.

It's not enough to be usable, so it would just inflate the price (or reduce the margin).

Seriously, 2 GB would barely hold 2 of the better PSP games, probably wouldn't even hold one Vita game.

 

[Pooya]

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/110914c.pdf

JP press releases, with memory prices and lots of accessories info/prices

 

[lowrider007]

Do you need a memory card?, I thought the games saved on the game carts and also can't you download DLC to the games flash memory directly?

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Doesn't the 3DS come with a 2GB SD card?

Sony can't even do that?

2GB card and 2GB external storage.

But SD is cheap and Nintendo doesn't make it. Sony is cutting PSN games on Vita off at the knees to get more money off accessory prices.

 

[FoxSpirit]

No you!

You can probably get 5 hours if you turn everything to the lowest settings. You would also need to play under some good light to see the screen.

What??? It's self luminous and has deep contrast, you can turn it down pretty low and it still looks good.
The only time this needs to be turned waaay up is under direct daylight. *sigh*

Let's just see how this goes.

 

[Dr.Palutena]

Doesn't the 3DS come with a 2GB SD card?

Sony can't even do that?

gotta make money with propriety man . well this will at least motivate me to get more retail games i suppose, not that that's a good thing.

 

[kuYuri]

No internal storage, expensive ass memory cards...

 

[ColtraineGF]

Doesn't the 3DS come with a 2GB SD card?

Sony can't even do that?

Well, Sony's is a brand new proprietary type of card, so it was expected to be more expensive. The question was how much more expensive than SD, and I guess we found out.

 

[Jarmel]

No you!

You can probably get 5 hours if you turn everything to the lowest settings. You would also need to play under some good light to see the screen.

Edit:

Yeah. I would never expect 5 hours of game time with the Vita.

My point was that I'm not even expecting 3 hours with Uncharted.

Oh and the memory card is proprietary? Really? Come the fuck on.

 

[Gravijah]

edit:nvm, didn't realize they were all listed visually.

 

[Lazy8s]

Each new generation of mobile processors targets roughly the same budget for power consumption, so battery tech doesn't have to improve.

 

[cuyahoga]

This doesn't have a SSD drive in it? *sigh*

 

[darkside31337]

Ugh, Sony is being so stupid about this.

No memory card and ridiculous prices for appropriate storage are going to kill PSN sales.

People are constantly going to have to worry about their fridge.

The PS3 came with a standard HDD! That was great! If anyone should get it, Sony should!

Get what? Sony lost out on tons of money by shipping their system with a hard drive built in and then on top of that not selling their own hard drive only like their direct competitor did.

To be honest they're being pretty smart about this. Sell the unit at a relatively low price while recouping that money on accessories.

 

[Dark Schala]

No memory card?

Those prices... *sigh*

 

[Ellis Kim]

Those memory card prices...

 

[angelfly]

It's obvious they're trying to prevent a CFW situation by going with non-standard media but I wonder how long before we see sd->vita adapters.

Doesn't the 3DS come with a 2GB SD card?

Sony can't even do that?

2GB internal + 2GB SD

 

[Vamphuntr]

Some launch titles are also PSN only according to the table.

 

[rollingstart]

no included memory card is really, really, really dumb

battery life is better than I expected

edit:

memory cards are too expensive. already gimping the online service and downloading games.

 

[The M.O.B]

Doesn't the 3DS come with a 2GB SD card?

Sony can't even do that?

2GB would be nearly useless, psp games are already 1.5gb or so. Really a 4gb is useless as well. If you plan on having full games on here, 16gb or 32gb are the only options, anything less is not enough.

 

[Carl]

Ugh, Sony is being so stupid about this.

No memory card and ridiculous prices for appropriate storage are going to kill PSN sales.

People are constantly going to have to worry about their fridge.

The PS3 came with a standard HDD! That was great! If anyone should get it, Sony should!

Yup, those PSN games won't do very well if mem cards cost this much.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Get what? Sony lost out on tons of money by shipping their system with a hard drive built in and then on top of that not selling their own hard drive only like their direct competitor did.

To be honest they're being pretty smart about this. Sell the unit at a relatively low price while recouping that money on accessories.

Great. Fantastic for them.

Not fantastic for me.

 

[C-Jo]

These memory prices are fucking outrageous. Sony is doing their best to make sure the Vita is stillborn.

I still want one, but come on.

 

[badcrumble]

Get what? Sony lost out on tons of money by shipping their system with a hard drive built in and then on top of that not selling their own hard drive only like their direct competitor did.

To be honest they're being pretty smart about this. Sell the unit at a relatively low price while recouping that money on accessories.

Low relative to what?

 

[dreamfall]

Those memory card prices...

really, really insane!