>People pirate anyway using SD cards.
Sony REALLY should have thought about not having a cartridge slot if they were THAT concerned over memory cards.
>Makes propriatary memory cards to combat piracy
Nathan Reed
Chase King
PSP had the same thing, they really don't care.
Austin Thompson
PSP didn't have a cartridge slot. I don't know of any adapters that it had to put an SD card in it.
Nobody cares about the PSP anymore, especially when the Vita can do absolutely everything the PSP could do (with the added benefit of TWO analog sticks and touch screens), plus play Vita games on top of that.
Adam Allen
GameCube, Wii and WiiU had propietary disc formats and people still pirated discs.
Granted the weird disc formats weren't to combat piracy but to avoid paying licensing fees to Sony
Jayden Edwards
Worked long enough to kill the system :^)
Angel Edwards
PSP also used Sony proprietary memory cards and people made adapters to use SD cards.
Jace Ward
nobody cares about Vita either, sorry to disappoint
Owen Mitchell
Is that why it blew up in popularity and demand in recent years, when the system that was once deemed to be unhackable, became the easiest system to hack?
Jaxon Baker
>I don't know of any adapters that it had to put an SD card in it.
amazon.com
amazon.com
Did you even look?
Adrian Allen
You mean the Wii?
Luis Anderson
It's not about combating piracy, it's about jewing people out of money for overpriced flash memory.
Kayden Hill
>Wii
>unhackable
lmao
Brayden Ortiz
The only complaint that I have about all guides online to hack the Vita and use SD2Vita is that they all neglect to allocate the file size to 64kb, instead leaving it at 128kb, which messes up the official "System Use", even though the SD card itself doesn't show that error.
Zachary Roberts
Dylan Parker
It took four years for those to come out and only took Sony 2 years to abandon first party software.
Parker Gray
That is because for the first 4 years, the only "hacks" anybody was able to do was to create more bubbles (and Sony banned them for doing that, for whatever reason).
Dominic Reyes
>giving up your game card slot
For me it’s the PSVSD
Luis Lee
>early 2009
>Wii drivechips
Nobody was using this shit. Free DVD loaders had been around for a while and USB loaders were popping up.
Charles Sanders
Unlike you, we saw right through the scam of the 3G model.
And my PS Vita was fully digital, partially because the cartridge slot is a pain in the ass to open without having to use a debit card to pry it open, and partially because I want to switch games wherever, and whenever when I am not home.
Jaxon Baker
My point was the proprietary memory cards did prevent piracy while Vita was relevant. Problem was nobody wanted a Vita and nobody that had a Vita was buying enough software for publishers to keep bothering giving it even token support.
Bentley Hill
And now, everyone wants one.
Funny how that works out.
Michael Nguyen
They're more popular now than before sure, but saying everyone wants one is a huge step.
Josiah Harris
It was more the false narrative of "Piracy killed the PSP" (in spite of the DS was cracked open early too) which was meme'd to oblivion, thus preventing piracy to happen on the Vita early because the argument was that it would have also killed it for good.
Gabriel Johnson
Remember when you could get a brand new PSTV for like $40? go look at how much they cost used now
Caleb Gray
Supply and demand.
Jonathan Rogers
Can a hacked vita tv play any vita games that were previously restricted?
Lucas Cruz
Yes.
There's an app to re-enable games that aren't on the whitelist.
Some games need motion inputs. There's a plugin for that.
Some games crash because the camera isn't there. There's a plugin for that too.
Nathaniel Walker
Joshua Price
Piracy did kill the PSP in the west though. It had under half the software attach rate compared to their worst performing console while selling almost exactly the same hardware numbers as PS3, and Square didn't just cancel Type 0 midway through the voice acting for shits and giggles. Publishers didn't want to deal with it because software wasn't selling so it died early in the west. In Japan software kept selling so it got 10 years of support there.
PSP was hacked so early, so deeply, and so vastly that piracy essentially killed both the PSP and the Vita with all the measures Sony took to make sure it didn't happen again when they launched the Vita.
Dominic Turner
It's just tears in the rain at this point, what more is there to say about the Vita? Sony didn't give a shit, it failed, and while it's a cool device it's only really got niche weeb games. I like my Vita, but that's just how it went.
Julian Jones
Pretty much. It's nice jap game machine that got abandoned by its creator who failed to realize its potential.