Tired of deleting all your old episodes of Battlestar Galactica just to make room for new ones? Wishing you could move your entire porn collection over to your PSP instead of just alphabetised chunks? Sing and rejoice, then, for your prayers, well, they have been answered. Sony have announced a new 16GB MS Duo, which when combined with a longer battery life may finally make the PSP your first and only multimedia companion for long-distance flights. Or...it will be if you think spending $300 on a memory stick is acceptable behaviour. If you do, this baby's out in March.
Sony Announce 16GB Memory Stick For PSP
2:30 AM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By Luke Plunkett
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Wow, it's been a while back when I thought 8gbs for the memstick was alot, technology keeps on pushing it.
I thought the psp could only handle 8gbs? Of course i don't have one, but this is what i heard. Hey more memory for those people hacking and adding games instead of buying them! YAY!
This makes me happy, not because I have any plans to buy it, but because I can look forward to the lower-range cards dropping in price. Just got the Daxter pack with the 1GB, but I'd certainly like to snag a 4GB if they go down a bit.
This is good news. I'm sure all the other memory sticks will be going down in price now. Expect this memory stick to be incased with titanium.
Looks like a 4GB Duo is in my future.
Lets all wait till the third party ones get made, since the sony ones price is always killer. D:
You vastly underestimate the size of my porn collection. For shame, Luke.
There's no way my porn collection will fit on that tiny thing...
@Witzbold: I always knew you were the one making those fake cards and selling them on ebay. DAMN YOU WITZBOLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
@Witzbold: Yeah, i cant wait for those Nintendo Psp Memory Sticks at 2 bucks a pop. :)
@PwningForFun: *grabs fake cards and escapes through a window*
But man thank god over here in Japan they are selling more of the third party Mem sticks, since for the longest time sony had a fucking monopoly on those, a very EXPENSIVE one. D:
YAY
300 bucks is a bit rich for my blood. but when it gets cheeper i'l be on that like a fat chick on a birthday cake
@Witzbold: So your the one selling the third party memory sticks. DAMN YOU WITZBOLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.
LMFAO!! im gonna stop now
Heh, this is a rich kid's toy.
@PwningForFun: I vote that to be the catchphrase of 2008. It'll sweep the nation for about a year, then fizzle out after "The Witzbold Movie" flops at the box office. It'll then serve eternity as a trivia question on pop culture nostalgia sites.
@ShaggE: [www.youtube.com]
(no i didnt make this btw)
@shindokie:
Firmware updates FTW!
This rocks! Of course I'll wait a while for the price to go down *like $50*, before I go get one.
But 16 GB would be sex in a memory stick.
16GB is quite a bit of roms/isos/emulators/homebrew/porn.
Finally a cad that can hold my music collection. its down to 14 gigs after some cleaning.
Wizbold... i think you hit mainstream man. I mean damn. Here i am checking out one these Prinny videos and what do i see? Yeah thats right homage to your posting on Kotaku. I just want to be a popular as you. /cry /pout
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I actually kinda laughed! Nice bro!
Buy a memory card that's worth twice the price of a PSP, brilliant.
@Balance_In_Life: lol this was the vid I had linked too when it was announced that I managed to actually win.
Man now Im real scared that my name got onto a youtube comment :o
Ahem! did you just said 300??????
@Witzbold: Ahhh just take it with a good sense of humor. Your famous now! It's the love of Wizbolt... or a secret cult or something. Either way your popular now that you are the chosen one. Maybe it is a cult. Hmmm....
@Witzbold: I don't know much about prinnies, but that was epic. All it needs is Moe Syzlak popping out from the "O" in your name and saying "The Witzbold Movie! In 2-D!"
@Balance_In_Life: Wiztbolt... not Wizbolt. /crap
@Balance_In_Life: Witzbold, not Wiztbolt. :-P
@DaveKap: I know I know. I caught it. I'll be in the corner hiding from Witzbolt and his army. Ohhh and crying too... can't forget that!
Make the psp play divx just like the PS3 and I might have a reason to buy this.
I just bought an 8GB card for my PSP and I think it's more than enough. Though, I wouldn't mind sticking on of these into my PSP. Ah shit.. just remembered about the Skype compatibility to the PSP slim... maybe I'll purchase one of these for one of the slims when I decide to purchase one.
its times like this that im glad i got a sony duo magicgate -to- SD adapter.
16GB for my wii/mp3 is just right. juuuuust right.
:)
Currently using an 8GB Sandisk M2 Micro via adaptor, bought used for 80 bones off a guy who bought the wrong card and only realized after he opened the package. 4GB wasn't quite enough but 8 is, to quote my friend above: 'juuuuust right'.
I currently don't use my psp .....
@cheez:
well they're only forty bucks, i think. thats how much they cost in the philippines and in some stores. try compusa!
well i'm confused now. i thought psp would support 4gb and anything above required special firmware levels?
Just bought a 4GB for $40. $300 is steep, I'll probably wait a year.
Sony could just update the firmware to support it.
4GB x 4 = 16GB
$40 x 4 = $160
$300 - $160 = OMG Rape
Wait... You think my porn collection is LESS than 16 gigs?
For just $99 more you get a multitouch display, headphones, itunes compatability, and wi-fi web browsing. Its called an Ipod Touch, 16 gig.
This memory card falls squarely into the wait till the price drops category.
I just stream video from my PC to my PSP ... 240GB ftw!
Ah dammit. I just bought a 4gig stick too.
I'll wait till SanDisk produces an affordable stick thanks ...
@Youlikeyams:
What are you talking about? There has been the 8 gig available so obviously you wouldn't have bought a 16 gig if you didn't get what has been the current highest.
@cheez: If you're in the UK, Play.com do one for 30 quid.
Yep, gonna get in on the 8 GB or 16 GB SanDisk version later this year...
hot damn! my modded PSP just became a lot more useful.
16 Gigs would be just enough to cover the A's chunk of my porn collection...
sweet. now i can keep my 8gb stick in my digi camera, and use the 16 to load it up wit mp4 movies for psp, and divx movies for ps3.
Dude, my stack of h-games would fill like 10 of those. XD
Yeah, time to look for SanDisk versions, preferably the 4GB ones. lol
On the other hand you could get a 30GB Archos 605 portable media player for the same price or less with the added bonus that you don't even need a PSP! Seriously who do Sony think they're kidding at this stage.
@CocaColaZero: haha i thought i was the only one with more than 60gb of pr0nz
@Odin: Kinda hard to play Jeane D'Arc on a Archos 605.
to late hackers bit them to it
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I was planning on getting a 4 gig one for about £30... Perhaps i'll be getting an 8 gig now.
Hot dayum! That's a big memory stick.
@Gort23:
The point I was making though is that Sony thinks bigger memory sticks will encourage people to use the PSP as a media player more. However as I pointed out for the same price (or less) as JUST the memory stick you could get a much better portable media player. Yes you can't play Jeanne de Arc on an Archos but you can get an Archos and a PSP for about the same as a PSP and the memory stick. Sure it's extra junk to lug around but I'd prefer a little more weight in my backpack to a little less in my wallet.
I might be able to put my whole music collection on that... My video collection though an ipod wont be able to hold. :P 100g of anime, movies, and series, compared to 10g of music.
Why not spend $300 on an mp3/video player with 8x that space instead?
@ThatGirlHatesYou: I think you can get a 160GB iPod these days.
Wait for the cheaper and faster Sandisk versions.
@Balance_In_Life: Beware, Wiktzblot hates when people do that. I mean Woltblitz. FUCK!