8gb Pro Duos Available next month

**Vega** · January 8th, 2007, 12:59

Some good news if you have a few quid to throw about and you're a big homebrew enthusiast, Music Lover, or someone who hates the thought of changing their PS1 games around in their memory stick every other day. Sony are releasing 8gb models of their Pro Duo Memory Stick next month.

Aside from coming in with an adapter for devices with a standard-size memory stick media slot, it is also armed with MagicGate copy protection technology.

Info :

* 8GB MSX-M8GS Memory Stick model
* Weighing in at just two grams
* 0.79-inches wide and 1.22-inches long
* Sporting the ten-pin Serial Memory Stick interface
* 1,500 images in 10-megapixel, fine mode
* More than 18 hours of video at 768Kb per seconds in MPEG4 compression
* Can hold a collection about 2,000 songs in the MP3 format at 128 kbps with an average of four minutes per song

8GB Memory Stick PRO Duo will become available beginning February for US$ 300 (yes, you just read that correctly, $300) . It can be purchased from Sony Style (both online and retail stores) as well as authorized dealers in all states. UK release isn't confirmed but I doubt it would be longer than 2 weeks after US release.

It would be awesome to own a 8gb memory stick, especially with the release of Popstation, its just a shame about the price tag.

Edit : More information will become clear after tonights Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas.

***quzar*** · January 8th, 2007, 14:18

Give a proper source and this will be news'd.

**Vega** · January 8th, 2007, 15:30

Tremendously sorry, news will come in tonight at the CES , Sony has a booth to show off their new memory cards

http://www.memorystick.com/en/events/ces2007/index.html

Ugh, sorry about that

News will be added to that link as the show progresses. I'll try to keep updated on this.

**Mr. Shizzy** · January 8th, 2007, 16:06

Nice. I will eventually own one. But I may hold out until $ONY backs off the $300 USD price point. That's just too much. (Especially after just splurging on a PS3)

Whats scarey, is - how much the 32GB Memory Sticks that SONY/Sandisc are (supposedly) making will probably cost. If the cost of past MS can be used as an indicator; they may cost as much as a PS3 !!

**scottyboynow** · January 8th, 2007, 16:15

And I just bought a 2GB!!!

**S34MU5** · January 8th, 2007, 16:16

why not a for scotty?

im gona get one of these, might hold out for the 32gb model

that will be all i ever need,

**PSPCulture** · January 8th, 2007, 16:19

Price of the 2GB and 4GB should come down once the 8GB comes to market. 8GB still to pricey for most people, but I guess those into their photography might splash out on an expensive but necessary 8GB of storage.

**deathspal** · January 8th, 2007, 16:22

I hope $ony updates the PSP to support 8gb last I checked it was capped at 4gb

**F9zDark** · January 8th, 2007, 16:25

Originally Posted by deathspal

I hope $ony updates the PSP to support 8gb last I checked it was capped at 4gb

In 2.71 it was capped at 4gb. In 2.8x it wasn't. Anyone running 3.02 OE or 3.03 OE are in the free and clear. Those emulating 2.8x-3.0x in Devhook may be in the clear, but I don't know. In fact, I can't see how they would be, since if the PSP doesn't recognize the 8gb stick, which would need to be inserted for Devhook to work with it... yeah...

Looks like another reason to update to custom firmware.