PixlBit

I think I have a 16GB memory card that I shared between my Vita handheld and the Vita TV. I bought a few PS1 and PSP classics, but didn't invest heavily in the Vita otherwise. While i got it for Tales of Hearts R, the only real draw for it from my standpoint ended up being Falcom's games, and those are now available in better form on the Switch.

Part of why Sony used proprietary memory cards was to try and turn a profit on the Vita, which is something they couldn't do if you could just buy an Onn SD card for cheap at Walmart. The Vita was really over-engineered for the market it was competing in, and because of that, the Vita was a loss-leader despite being expensive on the consumer end of things. The razor-and-blades model employed by Sony and Microsoft, and tentatively attempted by Nintendo with the 3DS and Wii U, can really cause a company to hemorrhage red ink if the "blades" don't cover the cost of the "razor." In the past, PlayStation and Xbox have both wiped out their entire product line's cumulative historical profits when the "blades" didn't justify the razor. Sony tried to push Vita memory cards as both a "blade" and as a "razor" to encourage digital buying. I think my PS TV cost $70 brand-new, the memory card cost $40. 

That's why Nintendo uses older tech, something they did in the 1980s as well. They want to sell their products at mass-market prices and still turn a profit. 

Either way it's a missed opporunity. if they worked on it better it could've been a sure fire hit like the PSP. Look how the Steam Deck is handling as well as the Switch. I just wished the memory cards didn't cost so much now. almost makes me want to "experiment" on my PS Vita and TV soon 

Oh man, that stinks. As a Vita owner, I understand the pain of buying memory for that thing. When rumors first surfaced of the Vita store shutting down, I bought a 32 GB card right away and I am glad I did. They really jumped in price when Sony made the news official. I can't quite fit all my stuff on there but it was a good chance to cull the digital collection of some PS+ games I will never actually play.

I hope you find something to replace it with. I'd love to do the jailbreak to use SD cards but I'm too worried about messing up my system. Fingers crossed my 32 GB card keeps working.

I thought I was all set when the annnouncement of the store shutting down was coming. Thankfully we have a repreive so I can see on getting some replacements. I went in hard digitally on PS Vita content given the cross-buy promotions between PS3, PS4 and PSP titles. I even used it to store some PSP games since my PSP is maxed out in memory to. Stilld debating on 32 GB or 64 GB but i'll get something soon!

I haven't had a lot of memory cards just crap out on me. The last time I remember that happening was when I was using third party memory cards on my PS1 and lost my FF9 saves on my first playthrough of that game, after which I stuck strictly with Sony-branded memory cards for both PS1 and PS2. I guess that Sony made the PSV memory cards proprietary enough that third parties didn't bother with PSV cards.

This has been a first for me to. Never had one die out on me like that. I had hoped it would last longer. Guess I didn't luck out this time. 

I loved my PS Vita that had the OLED screen, but I never found enough games I liked to get for it. Thus I didn't play it much and then finally traded it. I miss that thing though. It had such potential.

What they did with memory cards was totally rediculous. Pricey, proprietary cards don't encourage digital buying, quite the opposite. There was no way I was going to pay $1 per GB or more when I could get memory for half that price for other devices. I never understood that strategy. It totally backfired for me. I never got more memory and so never downloaded anything. 

I wish I could get an OLED. they sound like a dream, moreso now that we are seeing Switch systems with OLED. I knew i'd be going digital with my Vita given how its hard to find CIB games that don't cost an arm and a leg. Sometimes it's cheaper to go digital for certain titles. And if those titles find their way one day on the PS5 as a possible backwards compatible option, I'd be down for that. 

I got the OLED Switch. I feel like I shouldn't have now though because I really don't use it on the go at all. I totally want to replace my TV with a OLED TV though. Oh yes. The Vita sold me on OLED. When I saw how good Muramasa: Demon Blade looked on that screen, I was hooked. 

Right now I'm going strictly physical copies with my retro gaming. Only in certain cases where the game is too darn expensive, like Chrono Trigger, will I go digital or find a rerelease on another system or in a collection. 

I'm already annoyed my PS5 doesn't have enough memory for more than a handful of AAA games at a time, and I have a 2TB hard drive for all my PS4 games already. I can't imagine what losing memory on a handheld is like. 

At the rate things are going, AAA games are going to require their own dedicated SSD. 

I propose that console and PC manufacturers design future SSDs so they can be plugged into SATA slots on the exterior. We could call this new storage format something like, say, "cartridges."

I may just give up on new gen and just stick to retro as this point. It was bad enough they decided not to do compression last gen. I miss the Xbox 360/PS3 era of gaming. 

At this rate I may just give up on the PS5 and Series X/S if this is how the memory is going to be handled. I can't keep up.