4GB Memory Stick Duo to cost $250

[shadowprophet]

@ ShadowP - Movies take up a lot of space, doesn't have to be pirating.

@ the entire music collection guy -- If you can listen to your whole collection with 2 PSP batteries or less then you shouldn't have a problem with the available storeage space anyway

Who watches movies off of memstick anymore, raise your hand ??
Its neat to be able to put a movie on memstick.
But most people get bored of them after they watch em a few times and delete thos puppies

Honestly, I enjoy bringing my psp to school for mp3's while I work, and games when I am between classes.

You can never have too much space, regardless of the medium. The more space the more variety, and the variety can be controlled and catagorized. Digital space is a good thing that you can't get enough of.

I do not pirate, but my 1gb sandisk is always full. No mp3player leaves psp as my only mp3 option, so 4gb would make my mp3player a lot more variable, and a lot less time spent on chaning the loaded songs.

I can't afford the 4gb, but I hope this knocks the price of 2gb's down to where I can get one of those :P

I can Completely agree with that,
But I just keep thinking to myself its a psp and while psps are great and I love mine very much. Its a 333 mhz processor, The avaible storage space is outgrowing the technology.

If anyone here can remeber back that far when we had 333 mhz computers. That was about the size of the hd's we where useing then.
I do agree that digital storage space is a good thing. But it wont end here.
Do you remember the psone memory card market ?
Not that it was ever as bad as the memstick market by any means,

But everytime you got the newset card somthing bigger and better would come out. And thats whats happening here, As sooon as everyone has gotten one of these and sony has had just enought time to cash there checks on it. There will be a newer memstick with more space and at even more unreasonible prices. Because sony knows people will pay it.

I really do love my psp a lot. But im starting to see that peoples love for it is getting out of hand.

I mean I myself have eight umd movies and eight games. four memsticks and an extra battery.
Somone at sony must have sold there soul to satan for this thing

The psp is a marketing monster. A money machine

[Gredler]

Who watches movies off of memstick anymore, raise your hand ??
Its neat to be able to put a movie on memstick.
But most people get bored of them after they watch em a few times and delete thos puppies



I can Completely agree with that,
But I just keep thinking to myself its a psp and while psps are great and I love mine very much. Its a 333 mhz processor, The avaible storage space is outgrowing the technology.

If anyone here can remeber back that far when we had 333 mhz computers. That was about the size of the hd's we where useing then.
I do agree that digital storage space is a good thing. But it wont end here.
Do you remember the psone memory card market ?
Not that it was ever as bad as the memstick market by any means,

But everytime you got the newset card somthing bigger and better would come out. And thats whats happening here, As sooon as everyone has gotten one of these and sony has had just enought time to cash there checks on it. There will be a newer memstick with more space and at even more unreasonible prices. Because sony knows people will pay it.

I really do love my psp a lot. But im starting to see that peoples love for it is getting out of hand.

I mean I myself have eight umd movies and eight games. four memsticks and an extra battery.
Somone at sony must have sold there soul to satan for this thing

The psp is a marketing monster. A money machine

I have lumines, a 1.5, and a 1gb stick. I dont see my self buying any psp games anytime soon either, at their price points they dont seem worth it. Not to mention I would probably have to upgrade to play the overpriced underdeveloped software for psp.

As for UMD movies - I don't see the point in buying them. I'll raise my hand to watching movies off the memory stick, but I wouldn't raise it to watching a UMD. Every UMD can be purchased on DVD, so I find it baffling as to why anyone would buy a UMD other then one reason: duo storage space. If you were a fan of a particular show/film and your memory stick was >512 mb, I suppose I could understand buying it, but honestly 10 UMD movies would buy the 4gb memory stick, so why buy UMDs?

I do want to get another battery though, the 3hr limit really pisses me off for 10 hr days at school away from a outlet ;(

[Insane1]

Who watches movies off of memstick anymore, raise your hand

*raises hand*

Really. PMP set to a-VBR (I think it's called) with a medium of 768, a min of 578 (I think...), and a max of 1500 is borderline DVD quality in my opinion. But they ARE huge. Star Wars Episode III takes up around 900mb for me. Probably just me as to why I put movies on it. Mainly because I just happen to like watching the same movies over and over without getting bored. ('course I have some UMD movies on the side if I ever do)

Which is why it's always good to have a huge memory card on the side for music and movies along with one for everything else. Of course I got too impatient to wait for Sandisk to come up with a "Gaming" version of the 4gb Pro Duo that was a good price (Which'd take probably a month or two after Sony releases), so I just got a 2gb Gaming for $108 (Including shipping) on NewEgg a few days ago. (And kept my 1gig for a bit of music and homebrew. LONG LIVE K.E.T.M.! Heh)

[CoderX]

@ ShadowP - Movies take up a lot of space, doesn't have to be pirating.

@ the entire music collection guy -- If you can listen to your whole collection with 2 PSP batteries or less then you shouldn't have a problem with the available storeage space anyway

I have a 3600mAh Batter.

Belive me it runs all day
Even with the wifi on

And personal the whole idea of a 4gb stick is to make some money off of the pirates, cus you know they are all going to go buy a 4gb stick, and then run out and get a gamepass for a month

[slayer2psp]

I have a 3600mAh Batter.

Belive me it runs all day
Even with the wifi on

And personal the whole idea of a 4gb stick is to make some money off of the pirates, cus you know they are all going to go buy a 4gb stick, and then run out and get a gamepass for a month

people who pirate games dont rent them they use torrents to get there games. if you dont sell them and was never going to buy the game in the first place i see nothing wrong with using isos if you play something all the time and really like it you should buy it. if the umd drive wasnt so damn slow i wouldnt ripp all my games to run off the memory stick but they run so much better of the sticks the load times are cut in half
games i own
gta
socom
fight night 3
need for speed rivels
this week im getting mx vs atv and mlb 06
i buy what i like and i try the rest

[tommyistommy]

Pfft what crap. 250 bucks for that. 4 gigs of storage. If your getting it for music or movies just get a PVP for 250 bucks. it will have at least 20 gigs. Whats the point of this? Its like begging to be used for isos. No one else needs 4 gigs of crap on psp.

[gov1]

WHERES THE LOVE GONE SONY!?
they are just playing us like the very games we play
use, finish, trade, upgrade
use=playing the game
finish=complete it
trade=for cash
upgrade=put cash towards better game (memory card development in sonys case)

[shadowprophet]

I dont see why more people dont like the umd movie format.
So what you can get the same thing on dvd.
So.

I mean most umd movies are 14.95

Thats fourteen ninty five

In other words there almost free
Sure some of them still cost 20$ And on the fair side of this debate they dont usualy give you any extras on a umd.
But all im saying is If im not useing space on my memstick and theres somthing just sitting on it not being used , I back that stuff up to cd and delete it off the stick.
Not to mention the quality. Sure you can have decent quality on a memstick movie.
But as much as space costs for the psp why use the space on somthing like a movie anyway?

My memstick My one gig anyway. Has about 40 mp3s and yes two episods of a rare show that I cant find anymore so I never delete those. Id say about 200 megs dedicated to a utils directory that has things like psp brew and the brown ale loader, useful things I want to have for on the go.
The rest of the space is all homebrew, And only homebrew I use, not just any homebrew somone decides to throw out there. Im not so much a homebrew nut that I must own it all.
And yeah duke 3d is on there, in my opinion thats a must have
All im saying is like ive always said space is a good thing theres no doubt about it.
But paying more money then the psp cost just for storage space? That makes it not worth it to me.
Hell for the price of the 4-G memstick alone you can buy an I-pod nano,
AN I-POD NANO!! Now doesnt the price sound a little unreasonible to you guys?

[CoderX]

people who pirate games dont rent them they use torrents to get there games. if you dont sell them and was never going to buy the game in the first place i see nothing wrong with using isos if you play something all the time and really like it you should buy it. if the umd drive wasnt so damn slow i wouldnt ripp all my games to run off the memory stick but they run so much better of the sticks the load times are cut in half
games i own
gta
socom
fight night 3
need for speed rivels
this week im getting mx vs atv and mlb 06
i buy what i like and i try the rest

I rented wipeout, and ApeExcape.
Not every one uses torrents, personaly, blockbuster is the safer route

[CoderX]

$250 for 400GB MSPD Sounds better for humanity

You know what seriously think about it

a 120gb laptop harddrive costs less then $250
there is no way it cost more then $3 to make each card.

Who they think they are fooling, in the end its a ripoff at any price.