Sony Announces 8GB Memory Stick Pro Duo

[quzar]

Why do Sony make their supporting product more expensive than their main products? This is crazy!

It actually is more expensive to produce that much memory in that format than you'd think, along with the fact that the supply/demand factor for the PSP itself compared to the stick is very high.

[Chameleon]

Hell, Ive been waiting for this for the last 6 months!!!

I have a feeling the 1.5 kernel will bring up some problems, but nothing that cant be solved with a nice PRX

[Buddy4point0]

ouch. 325$ r u kidding me
dude a 4 gig is 60 bucks
you could get 5 4 gigs for the price of a 8 gig!
thats 20 gigs to 4
ill stick with my 4 gig memory stick

[DarthPaul]

Wow good "news"...This isn't news,I heard of it months ago. I thought it was out already. Anyways 8gb is cool,but what the hell $325? My ****. I won't pay that much.

[zsc]

this has been available on Amazon for a few weeks already. if you're afraid of buying fakes on ebay, check out some of Amazon's reputable sellers...and not the one that "just launched", those are probably the same people as the ones on ebay. i think the current prices hover around 3x that of the 4GB variation. I was lucky and got a 4gb on sale+rebate at a local retailer for $60...that puts the 8GB about 4x the cost of my 4GB...simply not worth it. considering most "contents" are probably 2GB and below (ie. capacity of UMD disc), it's doesnt make much sense to pay that much for such large capacity. though it allows you to pack even more stuffs into a single MSPD, you're paying quite a premium on it.

the only benefit that I can see of having an 8GB mspd is the storage of my satellite image map of Los angeles for Deniska's MapThis, GPS Map Viewer for the PSP, which covers ALL of Los Angeles, now that's big...but not needed if it's gonna cost me almost US$300.

[ish420ism]

8 GB?, I don't think I'll be needing that Ipod after all

[diceone]

I'm most interested to see how this plays out with the 1.5 kernel in custom firmware.
honestly, it is my understanding that even though the kernel is 1.5 that the operating functionality is 3.xx
so hopefully it won't be an issue.
if it is, it may be something as simple as having your emu/eboots on the first 4gb of the stick, or partitioning the stick(gay... I know)

[Shrygue]

Hm, an 8 gigabye memory stick would be ace to have. I'd be able to stick all those good homebrew applications and musical tracks in one place.