>64gb Vita memory cards cost $90-$100
>Buying a 2tb hdd is cheaper
What the fuck was Sony thinking?
Anti-piracy. To that extent, it's doing quite well preventing it.
>>332583903
http://hackinformer.com/2015/06/14/vita-hacked-native-homebrew-finally-possible/
YOU DON'T SAY
>>332583903
It's also doing a good job of keeping people from buying a Vita. I know so many people who don't want to touch the Vita just because they don't wanna pay out the ass to have a decent memory card.
>>332583903
I wouldn't buy a vita even if it was able to be pirated
Mobiles of this gen suck ass
>>332584535
Only if you don't like jap games
>>332584578
Figures. I am out of my weeb phase since 5 years ago.
>>332584658
Mobiles were never great if you didn't like Jap games.
>>332584114
>tfw updated the other day for XCOM
Oh well I still have my PSPgo so it's not like I give a shit
>>332583581
Aside from some DLCs and free NFS Most Wanted, I'm fully physical with 8GB.
Even then, it's nearly full with updates up the ass for some games.
How much would be enough if I'm mostly going physical?
>>332584114
> 2015/06
And still nothing came of it.
>>332584949
If I where you id got 32 just to be safe.
>>332584981
>being uneducated
http://wololo.net/2016/02/10/ps-vita-3-57-hack-theflow-found-a-way-to-install-ps1-bubbles-asks-for-a-3-57-epsp-kernel-exploit/
>>332585115
Fuck, that's gonna cost me a good chunk of my paycheck.
Welp, no plastic butts or plastic crack for me this month.
I wouldn't mind if saves weren't connected to the games, you can't even delete them to make space without losing your data
>>332585303
I'm im surprised you don't have one already. Don't you use PS+ or even look at the sales on PSN?
>>332583581
>buying the portable jew
I seriously hope none of you did this.
>>332583581
The same thing they decided when they made thee in-console having access to everything rather than what it can play, or saves being tied to memory cards and the only way to transfer them is move the entire game.
Also selling a watered down handheld that can't run everything the other version can, and has months of waiting to get patch supported.
>>332583581
Sony managed to get a ton of money by forcing people to buy memory cards with the PS1/PS2. If they can charge $100 for a memory card that's almost mandatory, then they can knock that price off the Vita itself and make it's pricing look more competitive.
>>332584290
>It's also doing a good job of keeping people from buying a Vita.
I thought that's what anon meant by saying it was an anti-piracy measure. Not many people pirating Vita games when they aren't bothering with the system.
>>332583581
>got a 64gb micro SD for my N3DS on sale for $20
Feels good.
>>332585801
>Sony managed to get a ton of money by forcing people to buy memory cards with the PS1/PS2
Those memory cards also weren't as expensive.
Back in the PS2 era SONY sold its 8MB memories for $10 at that time you could get 8GB pendrives for that price.
>>332585801
>forcing people to buy PS1/2 cards
They were disc based systems made back when on-console save technology was still shit.
There wasn't much choice other than to go the terrible fucking Saturn route. No thanks.
>>332586514
It was still also 10 fucking dollars.
>>332586687
*and was only used for saves
It's a whole different beast now that you can download games
Keep away the poorfags, keep away the pirates.
>>332586687
>>332586809
SONY had a choice.
They could sell the PSV at $300 with built in 64GB memory or they could sell it at $200 with no built in memory to be more competitive and let the consumer decide how much space they needed and profit from that.
I buy mostly physical games.
Im glad I could buy the console at $200 and a 16GB memory to use for saves and updates instead of having to spend $300 on the console with 64GB built in memory that would be overkill for me since I buy mostly physical games.
>>332585994
That, too.
There were a lot of people who saw the $12-$20 PS2 memory card prices and decided to pick up a second one, just in case the first filled up with save data. (PS1 mem cards had 15 "slots" for save data, with each game taking 1 slot or more. PS2 was just raw MB size.)
I think that Sony saw everyone buying up memory cards at the time, saw how much money they weren't getting with the PS3 in comparison, and decided to full jew the Vita as a result.
>>332587553
>>I think that Sony saw everyone buying up memory cards at the time, saw how much money they weren't getting with the PS3 in comparison, and decided to full jew the Vita as a result.
I don't agree at all
I think this happened purely because anti-piracy. If what you said was true they would have done the same with psp/ps3.
>>332587912
Fair enough. I'm certainly no expert on the subject, and wasn't reading up on what Sony was saying at the time about the whole situation. Assuming they even said anything.
Why haven't the Chinese reverse engineered either a cheap alternative or a microSD adapter yet? I'd buy that sexy orange Vita with the quickness.
>>332588679
I doubt Sony would ever publicly mention hacks/mods. That just means they're telling people how easy it is to mod their system. An open invitation to just get everything for free.
>>332587389
They DID originally sell it for $300 though
>>332589198
And the price would´ve been $400 if it included 64gb built in memory.
No one wouldve bought it at that price.
>>332589603
Nobody bought it at $300 either.
>>332589858
Enough did, thats why it gets a lot of 3rd party games.
>>332588862
Isn't it the same size? I don't think an adapter is possible
They could run a cable through it and put said adapter elsewhere. That's the only way a third party memory card would work, logically speaking.
>>332583581
#4thePayers
>>332591193
meant >>332590445
