Venocide Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Looks like the PSPgo. It has a SD card slot, one of Sony's biggest mistakes was removing that. Sony's PlayStation Vita didn't take the gaming world by storm unfortunately, but at one point in time it may have stood a better chance. One of the poorest decisions by the bigwigs at Sony was the use of propriety memory cards instead of the much cheaper and readily available SD cards. It's a decision which has baffled many and has more than likely swayed handheld gamers in the other direction. But did you know that an early prototype of the Vita included a few features that are missing from today's iteration? A video of the prototype being man-handled shows an early version of the machine with a HDMI port for throwing the Vita's content onto a bigger screen, 12GB of internal memory, and an SD port to expand it. It's truly a shame that Sony decided against SD cards and we're still very much peeved at the platform holder for such a cock-up. There's a video down below that's well worth a watch if you're interested in what could have been. Just look at that PSPgo design, man. http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2015/08/ps_vita_prototype_looked_a_lot_like_the_pspgo https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=13&v=tWJEY9uDlfY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotAFoxAnymore Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Not a fan of the PSP Go-esque design, but removing the sd card feature was stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neputyunu Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Well, if PSP wouldnt be a handheld for pirates, maybe Vita-chan would have SDcard-slot? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revvie Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 To me, it has a unique design, it kinda looks like a mushroom and I like some of the feature like the HDMI port and especially the SD card slot. So yeah, shame on you Sony for making us buy that expensive Vita memory card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theJJ88 Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Memory card is understandable due all the piracy PSP had to suffer through. Prices are a bit salty, but I think idea was good. Remember why we can't have nice things. Sony is hardly one to blame, thank the idiots who made them to do so. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonemankane Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 looks cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenpai Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Dang, that is one ugly-ass console, thank goodness they revamped it. The SD card would have been awesome, though. The HDMI port was probably scrapped to lower the price of the console. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ichiban-Hybrid Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Jeez it actually use to had a SD slot? Man I wonder whos stupid idea was it to scrap this? Also Id wish the Vita never have the back touchpad. It useless and annoying.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenpai Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Also Id wish the Vita never have the back touchpad. It useless and annoying.. ^ This. The Vita's back surface is incredibly smooth, it would have been so much better to have it covering all of the console's back, but with the touchpad, we instead have a largely unused plastic surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satoshi Ookami Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Well, the HDMI port is technically still present... it just doesn't work But yea, with SD cards, we would be pirating to oblivion =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damon8r351 Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Reminds me of that idea once where Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page wanted to form a band with Keith Moon and John Entwistle from The Who. Namely, it's OK to see what might've been, but it's still a bootleg version of Led Zeppelin. It's ugly and too small, memory card prices are irrelevant to people with disposable income, and I'll never get the urge to root a handheld console to a TV with an HDMI port when you could be using it as a handheld. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guenter_G Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 The article author jumps to conclusion and is not fully informed. A prototype having an SD card slot doesn't say anything about the final product. It might as well be an early prototype where they just test the concept and design, and simply chose SD for easy debugging. And since it indeed is a different design, that seems highly plausible. Chances that they considered using SD for the final product is very low. It is part of the business plan, the Vita 1000 was very expensive to manufacture. The Vita 1000 models does have HDMI out, although it is a proprietary port which requires a proprietary cable. Because of this they ditched that plan. I have said it before and I say it again: the Vita could have been successful in the end if Sony had kept pushing it, just like the PSP. Or even the PS3 (my dear, the first two years were horrendous for the PS3!) Couldn't watch the video "need to log in", wth... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crespelio-X12 Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 SDs cards please no more overpriced memory card bs I will always have my 4GB In the above signature it's me Kevin Owens and John Cena is the overpriced memory cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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