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PS Vita Might Get a Price Drop, According to "Road to Greatness" Contest Rules

When reading through Sony's rules for their "Road to Greatness" sweepstakes, an interesting tidbit makes itself known: according to one particular section it seems the handheld might be getting a price drop.

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LOGICWINS3653d ago (Edited 3653d ago )

Thats not a price drop. That was always going to be the price of the Vita Slim on its own. If a Vita Slim with Borderlands 2 and a memory card is $199..obvs a Vita on its own will cost less.

EDIT: Unless this is referring to the OLED Vita. If so, I'm putting a Vita-1000 in my Amazon cart. As soon as that price drops Im making my move!

ajames3473653d ago (Edited 3653d ago )

Hmmm, but no other price has been mentioned for the portable, so we still don't know yet. For instance, Nintendo has bundles for Wii U all the time that are priced the same as the system alone.

EDIT: Yeah, the contest rules don't state which version, just "PS Vita handheld."

admiralvic3653d ago

"Hmmm, but no other price has been mentioned for the portable, so we still don't know yet."

A lot of times "bundles" are used by companies to maintain a price point they want / can make a profit on, which is why older systems typically come in bundles.

"For instance, Nintendo has bundles for Wii U all the time that are priced the same as the system alone."

To be fair, the Wii U was pretty much always bundled. The only stand alone version I recall was the "standard edition" and even then it had a massive number of differences for an insignificant amount of money. In fact, the difference in price is quite similar to what we're seeing here.

admiralvic3653d ago

Smart money says it's the slim model, since logically Sony would only be producing them, it's easier to include and contests tend to give the latest and greatest (it looks cheap if they send out of date models). Also, I imagine if Sony had a surplus of anything / wanted to pawn off Vita's, they would do so with the 3G model.

Lionalliance3653d ago

The Memory Cards need a price drop! They're still too expensive!!

THamm3653d ago

I know right! It's been keeping me from buying any digital games.

Soldierone3653d ago

Seriously! I've ALMOST bought a few games, but right before check out I go "oh wait I have no room, nevermind"

I'd gladly admit I'd own a good 20 or so Vita games by now if the memory cards were not so expensive..... I'm not dropping 100 bucks on a 32GB.... dropping 50 for a 16 was hard enough.

Jonny5isalive3653d ago

yeah, I only have 8gb. I have some games on there tho, and I just delete old ones. It doesnt take long to DL them again. Still need to buy physical games to save space, or on sale for 10$ like MK vita a month after it came out. I got killzone on a card for sure because its patch takes up alot of space too. Cant even DL that with a 4GB, sad.

OrangePowerz3653d ago

I enjoy my Vita since launch but with the current sales a price drop is needed to increase the sales.

MajorGecko3653d ago

how about a price drop in memory cards im still using my 4 gig n deleting games to play new ones

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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night DLC Adds Free Gameplay Modes

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has received a bunch of new DLC, including two new gameplay modes, for free.

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20 Best Survival Games of All Time

From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.

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Vader822d ago

No 7 days to die is criminal

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel5d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow4d ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo1824d ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie3d ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere3d ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin3d ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere3d ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

ApocalypseShadow2d ago

Lying to yourself is unbecoming.

Article link tells you all you need to know in Sarah Bond's own words.

Hereandthere3d ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

ApocalypseShadow2d ago

At least you and others get it. Note drank the Kool aid and asked for seconds thinking it was refreshing.

Most don't even know how it all played out but it's there in black and white for all to see. Microsoft brought it up for years until the MLB forced Sony's hand. It was a win win for Microsoft. Kill one reason to buy a PlayStation or kill the game by dropping it in a cheap service to kill Sony's sales numbers on PlayStation.

OtterX4d ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

Cockney2d ago

They chose well, Sony gave them the backing to pursue their dreams with no restrictions even tho their games especially dreams have very niche appeal. Media molecule and Sony deserve respect for this in an age of risk averse publishing.

RNTody4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno4d ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Inverno4d ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii3d ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno3d ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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