4GB Memory Stick Duo to cost $250

[Illegal Machine]

Thats a pretty good price considering I paid 200 for a 2 gig card, and that was totally worth it.


I really want a 4 Gig MS, for some reason it seems like it would just be SOOOOO sweet, having twice as much as I already have in there.


you see Im a sick person, when I have a SNES emu, I want to have every single rom that ever came out for SNES in there. ( for example).


What I want:

I want for someone to make a dump af the 3.0 firmware, pluck out whatever .prx or .rco file that's new in there that allows 3.0 users to use 8 gb MS cards, and flash it into a 1.5, then release the whole program, so 1.5 users can use 8 gig cards.

I'd pay the money and take the risk... Then I could start me ultra sick collections of EVERY SINGLE ROM THAT EVER CAME OUT FOR:

NES
SNES
TG-16
NEO GEO
SEGA GENESIS
ATARI 2600 (which I already have that collection takes up a whopping 3 megabytes)
and everything else I can think of.



at least with a 4 gig card I can put twice as much as I already have in there now. but with an 8 gig card!! WHooo hooo!

[jwilds73]

Uh, for music and movies? The PSP wasn't built with the intentions of pirating in mind...

And quite frankly 250 dollars is a load of crap. For 100 more dollars I can buy a 60gb Ipod. Sony has to stop pushing their proprietary muscle and start giving its consumers a reason to use their PSPs as a media center as it was hailed to be.

And at a price of $250... Christ I can buy 2 - 300gb hard-drives for my computer for that price. Until Sony starts selling memsticks for $1 I am not buying anymore from them, Sandisk or anyone else.

For a device slated for those on the go, 4gb doesn't cut it, if one can't fit their entire music library on the device to listen to when on the road, then what good is it?

I agree 4 gigs and even 8 gigs simply isn't up to par with what is needed in a multimedia hand held. The PSP just doesn't live up to it's hype about it's multimedia features. UMD movies cost just as much as DVD's and are limited to only being played on the PSP. Just in my house alone we have 3 DVD players, 3 computers and 2 game systems that allow dvd movie play. DVD is a cross platform medium where UMD's are not. And at a cost equal to DVD's I think I will pass on UMD movies. The portability of the UMD movie doesn't offset the cost for this consumer. Especially when looking at how limited it is in use.

I should add it is my hope that the PS3 will come with a UMD drive built in though I extremely doubt it. If the PS3 supports the play of UMD and the allows me to continue that play on the PSP itself that will count for alot in my book.

[slayer2psp]

its okay i just bought 2gb for 89.99 so 4gb should be about 179.99 soon after release the price just keep coming down
i have 3 2gb
1 1gb
1 512mb
1 32mb

[Voltron]

i just bought 2gb for 89.99

$89.99 for a 2GB?, Not bad. I just bought a brand new 2GB for $119.99, it is the Sandisk Ultra II though which is supposed to be lightning quick. Supposedly a minimum of 10MB/sec read & write speed. Should help with those Neo Geo CD Loading Times and transferring large files back and forth to the PSP.

I have the Sony 1GB Pro Duo but it is SLOOOOW compared to the Sandisk 512MB I used to have.

Come on Sandisk, bring out an 8GB Ultra II Pro Duo will ya?

[Sharkey]

Thats not that surprising, just today I seen a 2 gig card at circuit city for $100.
Of course it was on sale with a $25 instant rebate and a $25 mail in rebate but thats still only $150.

I was pissed when i seen it because i just bought my 2 gig from best buy last week for $180 which at the tim e I thought was a good deal for the sony brand.
I'd return it if I wasn't so lazy.

[F9zDark]

I agree 4 gigs and even 8 gigs simply isn't up to par with what is needed in a multimedia hand held. The PSP just doesn't live up to it's hype about it's multimedia features. UMD movies cost just as much as DVD's and are limited to only being played on the PSP. Just in my house alone we have 3 DVD players, 3 computers and 2 game systems that allow dvd movie play. DVD is a cross platform medium where UMD's are not. And at a cost equal to DVD's I think I will pass on UMD movies. The portability of the UMD movie doesn't offset the cost for this consumer. Especially when looking at how limited it is in use.

I should add it is my hope that the PS3 will come with a UMD drive built in though I extremely doubt it. If the PS3 supports the play of UMD and the allows me to continue that play on the PSP itself that will count for alot in my book.

I second that totally. I think Sony should make the PS3 have UMD compatibility. Not only will it be a much better incentive for people to buy UMDs in the future since people will have 2 places to use UMDs, at home in their PS3 and on the go in their PSP.

However a quick search on the PS3 specs yield nothing about UMD capabilities. BluRay technology is another 'addition' to the Sony lineup, which will further convolute the market of silicon mediums.

If we can't have a hardware means of supporting UMDs in the PS3 then I hope Sony will make the necessary firmware upgrades to allow the streaming of video from the PSP to the PS3 via USB or Wireless.

[Junior]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks this is bollocks. While I absolutely recognize the need for more and more memory there's nothing in the world that can convince me to hand over 250 dollars for this.

No Sir, No Mam.

[jwilds73]

If the PS3 were designed the way I wanted it would include a UMD drive. Also they would have some sorta USB charging cradle I could plug into the PS3 for the PSP. Would be really cool if it was built right into the PS3. It would automatically update and sync the saved games to and from the PSP memory stick and PS3 then start charging the PSP. I'd simple pop the UMD out of the PSP and into the PS3 and play it (so as to not wear out the PSP drive to fast). After playing and before shutdown the PS3 would check to see which saved game is most current and update the PSP. Being able to play PSP games on my home console and then continue playing it on the PSP would almost guarantee I buy a PS3. Add reverse compatability with PS2 and PSX games and I am sold for certain.

Also imagine if older games could be used to unlock content in newer games. Imagine popping in FF7 to your PS3 and unlocking characters, content, mini games and items etc in PSP and PS3 games. Ok that's alittle off base from the original subject but I'd love to see things like this.

[Emeriastone]

I won't pay that much when I can get about a hundred times more memory on a hard drive for that price. This just goes again to show how sony should have gone with a hard drive...

[not here anymore]

Careful with those 2GB cards at less than 100 bucks.
99.99% of the cards on ebay are fakes, most of the cards at Amazon merchants as well. Concerned cards are mostly Sony and Sandisk ones.
Later,

TSR