Sony Computer Entertainment PS Vita 32GB Memory Card

The memory card itself is very tiny and simple enough to insert in the PlayStation Vita. I've had it for a few weeks and it works as it should—as far as I know, it doesn't slow anything and has stored games, photos, and music just fine. Although it is very expensive for a memory card, once you put it inside you'll most likely just forget about it if it works smoothly and you don't run out of space. It's a recommended choice if you download some games, and buy the cartridge for others. If you download all of your games, the 64GB would probably be a safer choice, and if you usually buy cartridges, it's probably for the best to just get an 8 GB one. I usually buy the game cartridges, but since I do download some games occasionally, buy DLC a lot, and store a lot of pictures and music, this was the choice for me. I still have lots of space left over. I recommend it!

I know many of you out there feel like this item may be over priced but its not so bad considering Sony want's to secure their investment. It all comes down to patients and saving your money. Also make use of Amazon's trade in offers. I traded in my college anatomy book for $100 bucks and got this for $84 bucks and still had money to spare. When I first got my vita which was on the day it offically launched (and my birthday!) I started off with the 8 gig that came bundled with the 3G model. A few days after I got the 16 gig which I had found online for $39.99. I've downloaded about 5 vita games and 8 psp games and so far I have been quite happy with my purchase. Once school got out for the semester I figured it was time to upgrade and get something bigger so I got this and it came in 2 days for free thanks to prime. I know it may seem like Sony is trying to get over but they aren't doing so well as a whole now a days. They put out some high quality products yet they don't get the same recognition that companies like apple gets, and apple is a ripoff. Seriously their new IPad isn't even close to the vita spec wise yet its more then twice the price. They didn't even really upgrade from the previous tablet outside of the retina display and yet they still charge you super premium prices for their lackluster technology. If you like the playstation brand and have or plan on getting the vita later on down the road then I would highly recommend this memory card for those would plan on going more digital. If you think your gonna buy more physical disk then the 4 or 8 gig will suit you just fine

I was worried this wouldn't work for my ps vita. But it worked fine. I wish I ordered from amazon instead of ebay. Shipping was way faster with Amazon.

A 32 GB memory card should not be this expensive, that much is clear. Obviously Sony changed up the memory to be a new type of card instead of a standard mini-sd or even a memory card pro duo like the PSP used because they needed to make their money back when they decided to price the Vita at a point where it competed with the 3DS. It sucks that this card could easily be under the 50 dollar range but, it isn't, and if you're going to download your games from the store to always have them available, you need a lot of memory, so this is your best choice, and at least amazon has it for a price considerably lower than retail ($79.99 vs $99 at the moment of this review for a $20 savings). For those of you who are still deciding whether or not you need to shell out the 80 bucks + shipping to get the biggest memory card, here are a few points to help you decide... It is certainly very convenient to have all or most your games on the card, however, be clear that if you are going to get a lot of games, and you are not willing to delete the older ones to make room for the new ones, or if you're one of those people who downloads a lot of demos and never wants to delete them, you're probably gonna have to get a second card anyway because of average game sizes. However if you're not the type mentioned above, but you still want to download at least part of your library, 29 GB (after formatting) should be enough (keep in mind i'm not counting music or video, but the same principle applies). Also, be clear that 'Convenience' is the one and ONLY advantage to downloading games from the store right now, to clear up a couple of common doubts and misconceptions: #1) As of this moment, NEW games in the store are NOT cheaper than physical ones. New games will be priced the same (though i believe they should be cheaper as downloads). Also, price drops for games will usually happen faster at retail stores. For example, i found Wipeout at gamestop for $20 right after i had already bought it from the PSN store for 34.99(DOH!). [EDIT: removed a comment that most new games are more expensive in the PSN store than retail, since this is no longer the case with new games,from what i've seen on the PSN store, new Vita games are coming out are priced equally to the retail stores (usually 29.99)] #2) Downloaded games DO NOT run faster than games on cards. In fact, it's been shown that they actually run a bit slower, because the read speed on the game media cards is slightly faster than the memory card. #3) Game media cards will give you the option to loan and sell your games (or trade in if you like). Games that have online gaming features (like LittleBigPlanet Vita) will require an online pass that will usually be included when you buy it new (as a voucher if you buy the physical game). If you get the game loaned or used and want to access the online features, you'll have to buy the online pass (usually $9.99). #4) Game media cards are about the size of a normal SD card, maybe smaller, so carrying them around is much easier and convenient than it used to be with your PSP which used UMD disks. If you get a carrying case with some extra pockets, you can easily carry around a lot of games on physical media. I got a starter kit that comes from Sony for $20 USD that comes with a great carrying case that has 2 spaces with pockets inside (one the size for the vita, and another about the same size i use to carry a USB cable, a cloth and 6 or 7 games on physical media) and it also comes with a small box that's specifically for storing game cards where you can fit a couple of dozen cards (not sure how many right now but it was over 20). The point being, keep in mind that buying games on physical media may not be as inconvenient as you think, and if you decide to get most of your games like this, you're better off saving your money and getting a smaller card (8 GB should be more than enough). In my case, I bought this card with the plan to have some games downloaded but I decide ahead which games i'm gonna get on media. The games I get on media will usually be the ones that I know i'm probably not gonna be playing once I finish them once or twice. For example, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, which is an awesome game by the way, but I got as physical media because, with a lack of multiplayer, i know that i'm gonna play thru it maybe a couple of times to get all the extras and then i'm not gonna play it again in like forever. On the other hand, i got Lumines: Electronic Symphony as a download because this is a game I always want available and I know i'm gonna keep playing for a while because it's a puzzle, time killing type game that's always good to have around, same goes for Wipeout 2048 because of online multiplayer and game elements like time trial that you keep playing over and over for a while because you wanna beat old records. Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation is a game i'll get in physical media for the same reason as Uncharted, and so on. Another thing to consider is, if you're gonna have a lot of games from the PS1 classics collection or downloaded games from the PSP library , like me, you're gonna need the bigger card. These are the cases where download is the only choice, and depending on how many you have, they can take up quite a bit of space, however, the same thing as before applies where you can remember to just delete the ones you're not using to save space. Right now, the games i have installed that fit these categories are actually taking up more space than the PS Vita games i have downloaded, which aren't many right now. But I still have plenty of space left on my card (about 18 GB), especially since i got rid of all the demos i downloaded initially when i first got the Vita. So even though the having the 32 GB is cool cause i have lots of space to play with (like for example for movies) I could've saved some money and gotten the 16 GB one and still would've been OK. Edit: A comment to this review makes a good point, which states that you can get a better value with a digital purchase if you own more than one system, since you can install it and play it without physical media and you can have it on more than one system if you use the same account. Also, since writing this review, Sony has added PS Plus Support to Vita which makes me glad I got this card because i have since downloaded several free games and purchased others at great discount. So you'll probably be getting better use and value with this card if you're a PS Plus member.

Just what I needed for going all digital. Has plenty of room for all my downloads. Eventually I know I'll hit the max, so I'll have to remove some games on it, but its not a big deal at all. People have been saying that it takes longer to load games and such. Yeah it does. Will it kill you? No. A second or two isn't going to kill your vita experience. Besides, when I had the cartridge version of uncharted, every time I turned on vita, it paused to say installing for 4-5 seconds every time i booted up the system anyways. About the pricing: Yeah the memory cards are expensive. Yeah Sony is using a proprietary format so you have to use theirs. If its a big deal, get the smaller size. Sony lost money for every ps3 unit sold. Here, vita costs $160 (parts) to make plus all their other manufacture costs and retailer cuts. Sony is barely making any from the hardware. So they are recooping in accessories. This memory card, the cradle, screen protectors and all the other accessories. It's either they sell the vita for $349 (and then people would be crying about that cost) and no one buys it or they sell it cheaper and charge more elsewhere. There's nothing to complain about. They offer a free online service unlike microsoft and they put out amazing exclusives. Give them a break. Games on my card: Touch my Katamari BlazBlue Unit 13 Lumines Electronic Symphony Motorstorm RC Super Stardust Delta and some psp games No problems with load times. Used to have Rayman and Uncharted on carts. No huge difference.

(NOTE IN ADVANCE: Most sellers will be sending you a Korean branded card. This is not a bad thing, they are legitimate Sony cards and will work as well as ones from Japan or the US) I purchased this memory card for my Playstation TV system as a replacement for the bundled 8GB card, following about 5 months of play and purchasing around 10 games for my system (this ranged from physical Vita cards to digital download titles, as well as a PSP download title and a PSOne Classic). I really love my PSTV and wanted to ensure I wouldn't need to buy another card for it anytime soon, so I went for the 32GB card as opposed to another 8GB card or a 16GB card. Transferring data and re-downloading games to the new card from my old one took around three or so hours. There's a ton of space on this thing, so the typical system owner should be fairly well set with it. I must stress, however, that this is if you're planning on buying physical games. Digital Vita games can be 3GB in size or larger, and that's not including the patches some of these games come with (Example: Senran Kagura Estival Versus is a 3.08GB download, with an additional 2GB patch for performance improvements and additional content). If you plan on going all-digital, a 64GB card, while even more expensive, may be the better option for you. But for someone like me who favors physical games over digital purchases, the 32GB card is exactly what I need. Cost me the price of a retail PS4 game, but it'll be worth it in the long run.

Does exactly what it is meant to do.

These people are buying this version and then insulting sony. Why are you buying the most expensive memory and complaining about the price? This is not out of the ordinary pricing either. A 16GB iphone is $199.99 and a 32GB iphone is $299.99. That is $100 for 16GB more and we never complained about that! Twice the memory and the same price and everyone is going crazy. Just take the 8GB card and put your game saves on it. No one is forcing you to buy 32GB of memory. Some of these people leaving feedback do not even buy this or the vita so they have no right being on a review section. As for the people who do have the vita, take a look at what you are holding. The amount of technology in this device is more than any other hand held in the market and is clearly expensive to make. If sony threw in a lot of memory for free they would lose memory. They already did everyone a favor by throwing in that free 8GB. Stop being so ungrateful and narrow minded and think about it a little. It is a good deal, it is cheaper than iphone memory, and the vita is extremely fun. Not mention that games on PSN are cheaper than the hard copies so the card will eventually pay itself off. If you are really that crazy about the easily avoidable cost, then go buy a 3DS because the Playstation community will not miss you.

Does what it is supposed to do - stores games! Couldnt justify the price for the 64GB version, which I have read is more prone to malfunctions also. This is more than enough space, especially as the pace of releases continues to slow, unfortunately. The transfer process from my old card was a bit convoluted and involved downloading software from Sony, but worked fine. Look up an online tutorial if you are interested in doing that.

Works as intended

Though I have heard of these sizes of Memory Cards failing, mainly due to PSVitas being on Sleep Mode most of the time, so far the product is working pretty good. Just best to be lenient on your usage of the gaming device (closing the device instead of relying on Sleep Mode) and hopefully it shall survive while I do.

Aunque el tiempo de espera fue considerable, estoy muy satisfecho. Memoria original y el desempeño es excelente. Magnifico tiempo de escritura, no tengo que esperar tanto. 32 gb son excelentes para guardar canciones, videos y sobre todo juegos.

Actually need this if you own a Vita.Price might be a little when I got it but a must have.Having have any problems since I got it.Very good quality.