New PlayStation Vita Memory Card Prices Are Getting Out of Control

While there are still PlayStation Vita cards out there for purchase, getting a brand new card for the handheld can cost a pretty penny.

[RaveTears]

Yeah, I just bought 32GB for $56. It getting expensive especially the game. I am actually buying some games before PSVITA PSN close anytime because once it happens, price will skyrocket again.

[DarkZane]

That's supposed to be a lot? When the Vita released, the 32GB memory card was $100.

[Neonridr]

considering you can get 256GB microSD cards for less than that, yes it's a lot.

[Fist4achin]

Yep. Those were dark times for Sony. The worst part was Sony wasn't able to see their faults in the overall failure of the Vita.

[PitbullMonster]

I have jailbreak my psvita and now I have a 400GB micro SD card in it. With jailbreak the psvita is imo the best Handheld.

[Vader82]

Same, best thing I did with it

[Ryushaa]

That what I was thinking. You can use generic SD card with a Jailbroken Vita. IMO every 'abandoned' or end-of-life console that can be jailbroken should be jailbroken to give its owner the most of it

[TeamIcoFan]

This is one of the big things that killed the Vita as a competitor to Nintendo handhelds.
The 3DS you could just thrown in almost any old SD card and you'd be good to go, since a lot of people probably had a spare one lying around somewhere.
Vita though, Sony was all like "Fuck you, pay us a premium for a useless proprietary memory card!".

[ocelot07]

It was not that. Sony was most likely concerned about piracy. Like the PSP suffered massively with piracy but it's also probably why the psp sold so well.

Look at the 3DS and the DS. Near enough day one you could download and play pirated games by simply using r4 cards and then not long after via the SD cards.

[TeamIcoFan]

Yeah, Okay chief.
Don't act like for a second Sony wasn't seeing dollar signs while making that dumbass proprietary memory card.

[Santouryuu]

If piracy was their main concern they would have kept the price low. Maybe even lower than a standard SD, then people wouldn't have mind buying it.

[jukins]

Proprietary memory and low cost? Ehat world you live in lol.

[darthv72]

The crazy part was Sony already had a memory card that would have worked for the vita. it was their own M2 card. It was used in their media players, phones, even the PSP go could use it. But instead, they changed the shape (pretty much just flipped the case design) and resold it as something only usable in the vita.

[JEECE]

Regardless of the reason they did this, it certainly was one of the things that hurt the device badly. People forget, but when Sony announced Vita's price at $249 after all the Sony naysayers (who were a dime a dozen in the PS3 era) had predicted it would be much higher, there was a lot of positive buzz about Vita. Then when they announced the memory card situation (which functionally jacked up the prices), that deflated much of the hype. Vita launch was also around the time Nintendo turned things around with 3DS, which had been pretty mediocre at first, and that hurt as well.

There was a bundle in one of the first holiday seasons Vita was out where they sold the system, a 4gb card, and assassin's Creed liberation for $200ish, and they couldn't keep that bundle in stock anywhere. It just makes you wonder what would have happened if Vita had launched with 16gb of flash memory built in.

[Profchaos]

I owned a 64gb card and it was good but a few weeks back I decided that it's been ignored by sony long enough I modded it and put a 128gb sd2vita card and tried out some homebrew I'm.smazed PSP games now look incredible upressed and running at a decent frame rate especially VCS plus emulation and all sorts of crazy things I thought wouldn't be possible. And to be clear I don't pirate anything most homebrew requires you own the game before you can install it like GTA SA on vita requires you to own the android game and extract your license to the system

[andron]

Yeah, I'm dreading the day one of my two cards breaks. Knock on plastic...

[kopko]

Getting out of control? Prices were out of control since they announced the pricing on those "new" memory cards.

[InklingGirl]

I’m glad I acquired a 64GB back in April from Japan for $125.

[PhillyDillyDee]

What year is it?!

[TheCaptainKuchiki]

This console only needed a GTA game to become popular. Shame Sony didn't do what they needed to do
I remember playing VCS on PSP, that was so great.

[Profchaos]

It did and it's a huge shame rockstar never supported it they did amazing work on the PSP afterall.

At least the homebrew community ported GTA SA from Android to vita along with vice city and GTA 3 and some other rockstar work like bully

[ActualWhiteMan]

Why wouldn’t anyone just buy the MicroSD cartridge adapter?

[Profchaos]

Because that requires you to mod your vita and not everyone is comfortable doing that. I've done it and I'm never going back the community has made the device worthwhile for me

[Chocoburger]

A soft modded PS Vita solves all problems, I'm using a 200GB micro SD card, and it's been amazing playing countless PS1 classics that I converted into 'eboots'.

[neomahi]

Yup, supply and demand. After Vita production ceased, the 64 GB was $100, glad I got the 64GB, or was it 32GB, either way, I got the biggest one then and while it was rediculous then, it paid off cause, now ya cant play Vita games without one of those

[ElementsUnknown]

Sony could earn a lot of goodwill by allowing generic cards to be used. The system is out of production, what could it hurt?

[cammers1995]

This is why you hack your vita and get SD2Vita. I hacked vita makes it literally one of the best handheld game consoles ever. Run many different emulators plus run isos of psp and Vita games.

[SaiyanFury]

The cards were always bloody expensive. I imported my 64gb card from Japan for 100.

[CaulkSlap]

Proprietary memory cards helped kill the Vita