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.
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.
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.
I’m still pissed at Sony for the rootkit fiasco. I have not willingly spent one penny on their products since then.
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?
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.
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.