Is PS Vita Discouraging Downloadable Games? Sony's pricey proprietary memory cards could be considered a gouging of gamers, a retail partner pacifier, and a calculated business strategy all at once.

Memory cards will come in 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB sizes, priced at $29.99, $44.99, $69.99 and $119.99 respectively. The pricing raises many questions, and has received criticism from fans.

Confirmation of the pricing for the PlayStation Vita’s proprietary memory cards has broken cover. The news isn’t good; and those considering the purchase of a PS Vita will want to take this ...

As part of its announcement of a Japanese release date – December 17 – for the PlayStation Vita, Sony also announced the pricing of its proprietary PlayStation Vita memory cards.

Sony uses a proprietary format for their memory cards, so they can’t just be read with any normal reader. The two people known as mr.gas and tomtomdu80 still managed to dump the content and ...

PS Vita hacker [Yifan Lu]’s adapter replaces the 3G modem, allowing end users to plug a MicroSD card in its place. And this means using standard MicroSD memory cards instead of Sony’s ...

Since then, Sony's PSP and Vita portables stand out for using expensive and cumbersome proprietary memory card formats. The Nintendo Switch uses standard MicroSD cards for game storage.