3G Vita firesale, anyone buying?

I'm surprised they haven't. COME ON CHINESE KNOCK-OFF MAKERS, THERE'S A MARKET FOR YOU GUYS.

I won't buy a Vita till I can use micro SD cards on it, I can get a 16 GB one at Microcenter for under $15, and probably online for under $10. And prices will only go down from there, whereas the Vita Cards (like the Memory Sticks on the PSP) will stubbornly stay at the same price because there's no reason to.

 

Aha, there's a store near my work so I'll check in with them.

 

hm- called them, but they claim there's no sale going on- is there any published details on this deal so one can look into price matching, etc?

 

Nope. Just this article.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/11/ps-vita-3g-199-price-drop/

 

The reason why the chinese haven't made a mSD adapter is simple: they couldn't get around all the copy protection crap in vita cards.

So we have to wait until someone makes an exploit or a CFW, and at this pace the Vita might be dead before that happens.

The problem of this thing is market and software: it should be a phone with game controllers and running on custom android: afaik the vitaOS is "unix like" which covers everything from android itself to freeBSD, not very precise. Still sucks and it means all those android devs can't easily port to vita, and with low sales of the unit they have less motivation.

Now I don't know if this is possible but right now the best way to save the Vita IMO is to ditch that OS, move to a really customized version of android and release a phone version of the hw, that way you get new users without ditching the old loyals, and you make it really easy to port games, easier than most phones considering the Vita is one uniform hw config while there are hundreds of different phones out there, same as the PC

If you think moving the vita to android would make it too generic is because you don't know what MIUI is