Gamestop prices Vita Memory Cards and Accessories

[Veho]

obviously, they're trying to get back some of the money they lose with that 250$ battle price...

Sony has said (I do believe) that they're not making a loss on the Vita.

Yes but they might just be saying that to prevent their stock from dropping. My guess is that at the very best they'll be breaking even on every console sold, and the accessories are where they will be making the initial profit.

 

[lostdwarf]

wow, this is very expensive. Any idea how much a 3G monthly contract is as well?

 

[klim28]

Are these made of gold and embedded with diamonds?

Thats the US price. I am imagining about oversees price.

 

[FireGrey]

Those prices are just terrible
Well they are probably gonna put memory built-in on the 2nd or 3rd revision.

 

[flaboy909]

Just imagine the wallet r*pe that will occur in Europe, Australia, and other overseas countries.... Damn $ony...

 

[prowler]

Those prices are just terrible
Well they are probably gonna put memory built-in on the 2nd or 3rd revision.

Like they did with the 2000 and 3000?

 

[junkerde]

gamestop prices vita memory and asks you to sign up for their instore deals for 1 hour before you can buy their expensive memory.

 

[Erdnaxela]

Please sony, 30$ ? 30€, it's 22,5~.
Once again, we'll be paying more for the same thing >.

 

[kyomagi]

just buy the 4gb and wait for an adapter or a 3rd party.

 

[gray.fullbuster]

I thought the 3DS was originally a fortune. I doubt Sony will be forced to make a huge price drop like Nintendo did, but there's no way I'll buy this overpriced shit. The PS Vita doesn't even have built in storage so you NEED a memory card to use the thing. To be honest I doubt Sony designed the memory cards to have the same specs as an SD card with just a different shape. Third party memory cards are destined to come out sooner or later, but sooner or later Sony will release a firmware update that prevents these cards from working. This happened with third party PS3 controllers too. All other accessories can easily be made available at a fraction of the cost, but the memory cards we all need probabally can't.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

I thought the 3DS was originally a fortune. I doubt Sony will be forced to make a huge price drop like Nintendo did, but there's no way I'll buy this overpriced shit. The PS Vita doesn't even have built in storage so you NEED a memory card to use the thing. To be honest I doubt Sony designed the memory cards to have the same specs as an SD card with just a different shape. Third party memory cards are destined to come out sooner or later, but sooner or later Sony will release a firmware update that prevents these cards from working. This happened with third party PS3 controllers too. All other accessories can easily be made available at a fraction of the cost, but the memory cards we all need probabally can't.

Um, half that stuff you said was complete ass talking.

Sony never released an update to disable third party Memory Stick Pro Duos/Memory Stick Micros for their PSPs. I thought the third party controller thing was to bolster security or something. The SD card thing is probably absolutely false.

There's "educated guesses" and then there's "wildly stabbing in the dark because you want to bash them with a slew of completely false info".

 

[FireGrey]

I thought the 3DS was originally a fortune. I doubt Sony will be forced to make a huge price drop like Nintendo did, but there's no way I'll buy this overpriced shit. The PS Vita doesn't even have built in storage so you NEED a memory card to use the thing. To be honest I doubt Sony designed the memory cards to have the same specs as an SD card with just a different shape. Third party memory cards are destined to come out sooner or later, but sooner or later Sony will release a firmware update that prevents these cards from working. This happened with third party PS3 controllers too. All other accessories can easily be made available at a fraction of the cost, but the memory cards we all need probabally can't.

It's just Sony raking in absolutely every cent they can.
They're probably even going to make a revision soon with new features that were purposely left out to make the revisions better, like Internal memory and maybe even a camera or something.
That's why it would be a terrible idea to buy it at launch.

 

[Qtis]

I thought the 3DS was originally a fortune. I doubt Sony will be forced to make a huge price drop like Nintendo did, but there's no way I'll buy this overpriced shit. The PS Vita doesn't even have built in storage so you NEED a memory card to use the thing. To be honest I doubt Sony designed the memory cards to have the same specs as an SD card with just a different shape. Third party memory cards are destined to come out sooner or later, but sooner or later Sony will release a firmware update that prevents these cards from working. This happened with third party PS3 controllers too. All other accessories can easily be made available at a fraction of the cost, but the memory cards we all need probabally can't.

It's just Sony raking in absolutely every cent they can.
They're probably even going to make a revision soon with new features that were purposely left out to make the revisions better, like Internal memory and maybe even a camera or something.
That's why it would be a terrible idea to buy it at launch.

Like the add-on for another analog on the 3DS? Like the sudden price drop for the 3DS? Thus no need to buy the console since "a new revision is bound to happen in a while and with a cheaper price". Like the DSL after the DS launch (only about 1 year between the EU launches)? Like the PSP revisions? Every console gets updated in the end with something.

For some cases the change is good, for others it isn't. Making money as a company shouldn't be frowned upon. I'd like to see how a company starts giving everything for free.. And still stay in business. Valve for example has given games for free, but not before making a few $$ and having a ton of other games making income.


-Qtis

 

[Guild McCommunist]

I could deal with the extremely overpricing if it was optional, but to play original Xbox games, to save replays & play several game modes in Halo Reach, they made it so it "requires" an HDD. I'm sure there's more, I don't play anything besides Halo. It's complete bull****.

If your system didn't come with internal storage then you basically need to buy a hard drive of some sort to store save data. Although nowadays I think you can use an external hard drive or any type of USB drive to do that and possibly memory cards. Still, if you're anyone who buys DLC or downloads XBLA games, you need a big hard drive. I'm running tight on my 20GB one.

They're probably even going to make a revision soon with new features that were purposely left out to make the revisions better, like Internal memory and maybe even a camera or something.

Except the PS Vita already has cameras (back and front facing). Plus they're "internal storage" model cost significantly more than their other PSP models, so it was more of a "premium" option.

 

[Jasper07]

I hope there's gonna be an adapter for when nano-SD's come out
(I so hope nano SDs come out.... will be hard not to lose them though)

 

[syko5150]

According to IGN the prices for the 4GB are $24.99, 8GB $39.99, and the 16GB and 32GB were correct.
http://psp.ign.com/articles/121/1213432p1.html