Apparently there will be some boycott of PS in regards of decision to discontinue disks.
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Remember their stupid proprietary memory sticks?
Proprietary in design? Cause ps1, 2 and 3 had the memory cards and those were sold by MadCatz, Neon and there was another really good third party seller that sold those. The PSP original ran off of of regular memory sticks that you could use literally any brand but the speeds and quality of the Sony ones were set to specs for the PSP, like the Nintendo cards are set to specs for the system but in reality you can use nearly any SD card.
So whatchu talking about?
For the original PSP, which uses Memory Stick (Pro) Duo, there exist third party adapters to use 1 or 2 microSD cards.
But with the PSP Go, they introduced the Memory Stick M2, which is dimensioned in such a way, that microSD Adapters are impossible.
With the PS Vita, they introduced yet another format, very similar to the M2 in size, but different enough to be incompatible. Again, no microSD card adapters exist, if it wasn't for nifty homebrew hacks utilizing the game card slot, there would be no way to use microSD cards at all.
This: Memory stick pro
A bunch of their laptops and the PSP/etc would only support these instead of a normal a USB flash drive. And Sony's stupid proprietary memory stick cost like 2x what other storage mediums cost.
I was under the assumption they were talking about the PS Vita memory sticks which were already expensive at release and haven't really followed the trend in prices that other SD cards have since then.
That problem is mostly solved these days by the modding scene making the SD2VITA so you can use regular MicroSD cards in the game cartridge slot, but Sony would still have you pay $65 for a 32GB stick of their official storage.
Meanwhile I found an SD2VITA available for $7 and a 128GB MicroSDXC card for $35.
I notice their speaker and AV proprietary connection shit is everywhere ... I do audio and HT gear as a side hobby