Remember when Sony made you use a proprietary mini SD card for your handheld instead of just allowing the format that was already in place and widely adopted?
Remember when Sony stopped us all from having easy access to high density compact disc storage by slapping obnoxiously large fees onto blueray decoding licensing that they still maintain today? Or how about that whole… betamax… actually I’ll just leave that one to history.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a mini SD card. To me it seems that consumer electronics went from regular SD straight to micro SD, skipping the mini SD step. What was it used for? Phones?
Interesting, from what I can find online even though it’s unique to the vita it’s still just the memorystick pro duo protocol under the hood, with a DRM system similar to the one Sony uses for their modern CFExpress Type A cards.
No but I remember the old school playstation memory cards that plugged into the front of the console that were required to save your games on. I still have one with PS2 saves for GTA San Andreas and Gran Turismo 3 & 4 and stuff
Remember when Sony made you use a proprietary mini SD card for your handheld instead of just allowing the format that was already in place and widely adopted?
PSVITA COULD HAVE WON THE HANDHELD WARS IF NOT FOR THIS /copium
I’m still salty
Pretty sure the Vita was just entirely abandoned, it would have been a powerhouse even as it was if Sony hadnt done so
Do not despair. Vita is one of the greatest home brew consoles ever. I love my hacked vita.
Remember when Sony stopped us all from having easy access to high density compact disc storage by slapping obnoxiously large fees onto blueray decoding licensing that they still maintain today? Or how about that whole… betamax… actually I’ll just leave that one to history.
HDDVD should have won for that alone
Ironically, it was adopted by everyone except Sony, which had Memory Stick, yet didn’t use it for the Vita.
Well, at least, the Vita cards were big enough to download all the great Vita exclusives such as… uh…
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a mini SD card. To me it seems that consumer electronics went from regular SD straight to micro SD, skipping the mini SD step. What was it used for? Phones?
Pretty much.
A very small set of phones used SD, then MMC (thinner), then mini-SD.
Once micro SD arrived, that was pretty much it.
Was that the memorystick pro duo, which actually beat even many early UHS-I SD cards at write and read speeds?
The Vita used overpriced proprietary memory cards.
Interesting, from what I can find online even though it’s unique to the vita it’s still just the memorystick pro duo protocol under the hood, with a DRM system similar to the one Sony uses for their modern CFExpress Type A cards.
No but I remember the old school playstation memory cards that plugged into the front of the console that were required to save your games on. I still have one with PS2 saves for GTA San Andreas and Gran Turismo 3 & 4 and stuff