PlayStation Vita prototype appears on eBay, listed for $20,000

raxadian · Mar 25, 2019

Wait... so a Vita can't use regular SD or Micro SD cards? What if you hack it?

the_randomizer · Mar 25, 2019

Anyone who has 20,000 dollars should reconsider their lives as a video gamer.

DeslotlCL · Mar 25, 2019

pitterpatter said:
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I think you missed the eof.

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raxadian said:
Wait... so a Vita can't use regular SD or Micro SD cards? What if you hack it?

Vita uses propietaries cards, but sd2vita exists, allowing users to use non propietaries ones.

the_randomizer · Mar 25, 2019

DeslotlCL said:
I think you missed the eof.

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Vita uses propietaries cards, but sd2vita exists, allowing users to use non propietaries ones.

Yeah Sony was absolutely stupid for not letting people use normal cards to store files.

DeslotlCL · Mar 25, 2019

the_randomizer said:
Yeah Sony was absolutely stupid for not letting people use normal cards to store files.

I really think it wasnt mainly to combat piracy, but sony actually wanted to squizy every penny they could get from potential consumers.

gameboy · Mar 25, 2019

i keep seeing comments on what if they had standard sd cards... NO, it would not have saved the vita, the vita was a trash console with flawed everything. The games for it weren't good at all, and the performance of those games had a lot of shortcomings. Plus when you played in the dark there were a ton of black splotches on the screen.

th3joker · Mar 25, 2019

the_randomizer said:
Makes you wonder how and why Sony screwed up so badly with those POS memory cards.

me thinks they were trying to avoid something like the psp majic memory stick and pandora batterie from happening again.

the_randomizer · Mar 25, 2019

th3joker said:
me thinks they were trying to avoid something like the psp majic memory stick and pandora batterie from happening again.

Boy were they ever wrong

th3joker · Mar 25, 2019

the_randomizer said:
Boy were they ever wrong

well we dont have the same thing for vita so the suscceded on that part.

Foxi4 · Mar 25, 2019

gameboy said:
i keep seeing comments on what if they had standard sd cards... NO, it would not have saved the vita, the vita was a trash console with flawed everything. The games for it weren't good at all, and the performance of those games had a lot of shortcomings. Plus when you played in the dark there were a ton of black splotches on the screen.

The Vita is easily one of my favourite portables of all time, it was very well-designed. There's a number of reasons why it failed, but the hardware itself isn't one of them.

As for the prototype, it's very interesting and matches the early leaked photos of the system, including the Go-style slider. I hope someone purchases and preserves it for future generations, it deserves to be cared for.

Owenge · Mar 25, 2019

pitterpatter said:
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Bet.

gameboy · Mar 25, 2019

Foxi4 said:
The Vita is easily one of my favourite portables of all time, it was very well-designed. There's a number of reasons why it failed, but the hardware itself isn't one of them.

As for the prototype, it's very interesting and matches the early leaked photos of the system, including the Go-style slider. I hope someone purchases and preserves it for future generations, it deserves to be cared for.

its the exact opposite for me, worst handheld ever. It didnt come close to living up to the psp, and the remote play was trash

Foxi4 · Mar 25, 2019

gameboy said:
its the exact opposite for me, worst handheld ever. It didnt come close to living up to the psp, and the remote play was trash

I don't think I understand your reasoning. The design is an almost exact replica of the PSP, except there are two analog sticks and they're placed more sensibly. It's a thousand times more comfortable than the PSP. The only aspect of the system that was kind of pointless was the touch pad, I would've prefered R2/L2, but besides that it was the perfect follow-up console that improved on all of the PSP's shortcomings.

pitterpatter · Mar 25, 2019

Foxi4 said:
I don't think I understand your reasoning. The design is an almost exact replica of the PSP, except there are two analog sticks and they're placed more sensibly. It's a thousand times more comfortable than the PSP. The only aspect of the system that was kind of pointless was the touch pad, I would've prefered R2/L2, but besides that it was the perfect follow-up console that improved on all of the PSP's shortcomings.

not to mention the ui and online functionality was basically home-console quality on a handheld. tons of cool stuff. but if you don't like japanese games you'll probably hate the vita no matter what

magico29 · Mar 25, 2019

Scarlet said:
Buy it and let us know

hahahahahaha. nice dreams seller!!

Something whatever · Mar 25, 2019

...Lowkey want China or Russia bootleggers to get there hands on this

Vhestal · Mar 25, 2019

Sakitoshi said:
ftfy.

Sony used proprietary everything only to stop piracy, ps2 and psp got pirated to no end and sony didn't wanted the same to happen to ps3 and vita.
The thing that they didn't knew is that piracy is what makes systems sell.

They should've known better that there's no stopping human curiosity, if there's a wall that needs to be climbed, you can count on people with enough time and interests on their hands to climb it no matter what.

eriol33 · Mar 25, 2019

In an alternate dimension, PS Vita was one of the best selling console ever. Who was the genius at sony who thought sales from their accursed memory card could outweigh the lifetime of ps vita sales?

pitterpatter · Mar 25, 2019

eriol33 said:
In an alternate dimension, PS Vita was one of the best selling console ever. Who was the genius at sony who thought sales from their accursed memory card could outweigh the lifetime of ps vita sales?

it didn't fail because of the memory card. I don't think your average consumer really knew or cared about that much. it failed because it had a lackluster lineup of games at launch. as marvelous as the hardware was, it is software that ultimately sells consoles and the vita just didn't really have it. gravity rush and uncharted golden abyss are great, but they aren't console sellers. mario and call of duty sell consoles.

plus, it came at the tail-end of the whole handheld craze so there was a lot of consumer fatigue setting in around that time. sony deciding to specifically market the console towards adults didn't help either (although ironically, it would later work for the switch), when the bread and butter of any handheld up until that point was children, who most certainly didn't want one (although Sony would try to win them over with the PSTV Lego bundle, which failed).

Nintendo managed to make the 3DS a success based almost entirely off its first-part software (which it couldn't do with the Wii U), while the Vita (like all Sony consoles) was at the mercy of 3rd-party developers from the start, who all jumped like rats from a sinking ship after launch.

the whole thing ended up being worth it in the end for p4g though, so I'm not too mad about it

kumikochan · Mar 25, 2019

gameboy said:
i keep seeing comments on what if they had standard sd cards... NO, it would not have saved the vita, the vita was a trash console with flawed everything. The games for it weren't good at all, and the performance of those games had a lot of shortcomings. Plus when you played in the dark there were a ton of black splotches on the screen.

Wtf are you talking about, i still use my vita to this day a lot. It has a great library of games

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