Larger Vita Memory Sticks are Coming to the UK
Fergal Gara, SCE’s UK managing director is taking a few clues from the Vita launch in Japan by securing larger sized memory cards for UK gamers.
Gara told Eurogamer at the UK launch event about his plan to get bigger memory cards in the hands of gamers as soon as possible, saying “we’ve already gone to secure bigger size cards to bring them into the UK market.”
He went on to point out that they hadn’t anticipated such a large number of gamers who prefer downloading games over purchasing boxed copies, despite the huge problems with the 4GB card.
It’s early days. Before it comes to market you just have to guess what people are going to want. We thought they’d want a lot of 4GB cards just as the minimum, and then they buy packaged media.
But actually, the way it’s going is, many of the early adopters are clearly going to download a bit more, or just want to buy the big chip in case. It’s going to evolve. But we can certainly see they want bigger cards.
Among the options Sony currently has available, the 32 GB card is the only one that currently isn’t in the UK, so it’s safe to assume that European gamers will be able to get their hands on this larger memory option in the future (why they didn’t offer it to start with is unknown). Here’s hoping we’ll see a 64 GB option down the line as well.
5 Responses to “Larger Vita Memory Sticks are Coming to the UK”
That picture is deceptive. I think the main reason these memory cards are so expensive is their size. No bigger than my pinkie nail if that.
I popped it out of the cartiage was scared I lost it. It’s soooooo tiny. But, it’s in my vita now and staying
microSD cards are about the same size, maybe even smaller, but way, way cheaper
Oh, I hadn’t realized there were cards also that small. Technology just keeps on getting smaller and smaller, hard to notice it all sometimes. I’m still using SD haha. So behind.
Actually it’s because Sony made these memory cards so that they could charge huge amounts of money for them while pretending it’s to stop piracy. Yeah sure sony, that’s why you did this. I hate Sony for the memory cards, I want a Vita but it’s seriously these memory cards WILL get hacked why couldn’t Sony just use normal cards and not put potential customers off.
To be fair, there are already a lot of bundles or deals that include memory cards. Sure they aren’t 32 GB, but you can nab a 4 or an 8 GB for nearly nothing. I got a starter kit with a case, screen protector, which are about $30 sold separately with a 4GB card for $30.
It’s small and it doesn’t hold a lot but it will tide me over until I decide to either pick up a larger card or I actually need to pick up a larger card.