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Posted 16 February 2012
Sony Playstation Vita £197 @ Asda Instore from 22nd February
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Cheapest I have seen for the stand alone console don't think it will include the pre-order pack though. Also think it might only be instore as it is showing from £219 online
Update- price has increased by 2p for some reason prices for memory cards are as follows:
4gb - £15
8gb - £27
16gb -£37
ALSO
£100 off if you trade in a nintendo 3ds
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- mrwhitelabel
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Update- price has increased by 2p for some reason prices for memory cards are as follows:
4gb - £15
8gb - £27
16gb -£37
ALSO
£100 off if you trade in a nintendo 3ds
desmond.imageshack.us/Him…ium
- mrwhitelabel
Don't forget 2% quidco folks !
- Boony2310
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sorted byAnd it's because of idiots like you we have to have these expensive memory cards in the first place. Why are people so intent on destroying the success of a console so they can play a bloody emulated NES game from 20 years ago? If you love the NES games so much, go and buy one or get a wii. Better still, just stick with your PC that will let you run pretty much any emulation tool and pirated game you want!!!
So it has to be cold as it is bad value
Why on earth would anyone already have the card? They aren't in shops yet and their sole purpose is for use in the Vita - so if they didn't have a Vita, they wouldn't have the card...
It's not the best deal either.
PS is it cracked yet?
Dont be a prat! its still a good deal if you already had the card! shape up theyve already said its their first post! HEAT ADDED!!!
I raise the BS flag.
Lol, you related by any chance? anyway ignoring your daft responce, nobody has the card yet as it is not out yet, so why pay £196 + £28, when you can pay £209 to get exactly the same thing, only if you like spending more money does this deal make sense
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Coupled with the fact that you'll also have to get at least one game to play and this price is really quite rubbish. Sorry, I don't like bagging on deals, but there is far better available at places like Amazon and Play. This "deal" is strictly for clueless parents who will be in for a nasty surprise once they get home and realise that they need to spend another £15-20 to even boot up some of the games they've bought.
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Absolutely disgusting attitude.
Its because of cheapskates like you that were in this situation.
If you find a price, cheaper than elsewhere, its a good deal surely?
If people want to pipe up and say " well you dont get a memory card" they need to get a grip! You dont get 10 games, downloadable content, a carry case, or a screen protector either, but you'll probably buy them over the lifespan of the device, so therefore if this deal is cold, every deal out there is cold!
Grow up, thank people for posting the cheapest price and stop fekkin whingeing!
So not a good deal
By your reasoning, EVERY device should be hackable. There's a reason why every single company on the planet locks out devices. It's to protect their own product. Things like NES emulators, even if legal would be owned by Nintendo. Do you think they'd want to see their games on a rival console?
I'm sorry, I don't buy your "I only hack my console to unlock it's full potential" crap. No-one believes you when you say you only want to play games via an emulator, which isn't legal anyway. Anyone who has the chance to get access to any game they can for free will do it. You're no different, no matter what you say on these forums.
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I guess this is why Game and Gamestation keep going
So many manufacturers have propriety peripherals its not just Sony. Nintendo, Apple, Microsoft all do it, so I take it you don't buy any of their gear either
What is wrong with wanting to get the most out of the hardware we pay for? Yes many people use it to pirate games and supposedly 'harm' retail sales but plenty of people (including myself) hacked the original one so that we could unlock it's full potential and do what it was capable of rather than what Sony dictates we could do with it.
Go do one, please.
You can't play any games on the console without the memory card - that is NOT a matter of opinion.
but in the long run you will end up spending more money as you have to buy everything else.
no preorder pack, and not much cheaper than the bundle deals that include memory card and games.
if i was buying the console on its own, it would have to be around £180 to be this hot.
I have an ipad 2 and an iphone 4s and may buy the ipad 3, however, the ipad is not a GAMES CONSOLE!
I have tried very hard to play any form of serious games on the ipad and it just does not work. The screen is too large, the touch screen controls for most series games will not and do not work.
Please stop comparing the ipad to a Vita. The ipad is not the bees knees of everything.
People have already started importing 32gb memory cards - which aren't for sale here. As he said good deal
report them to the head teacher
You didn't hack anything. You followed a simplified n00b tutorial that takes you 5 minutes, whilst us devs spend endless hours exploiting the hardware. So don't take responsibility...
..and look what happened when Sony allowed other OS on the PS3. The ultimate goal by that US hacker Geohot was to USE that tool to show how to circumvent software protection...aka piracy. I bid you a good day my friend.
and as for the ealier comment about wanting to crack it to play free games.........If I ran this site I had your ip adddress reported to the appropriate authorites, I have friends in the gaming business who have lost employment in the past primarily due to lower than expected sales due to heavily pirated / leaked software.
I asked in gamestation a while ago about them price matching tesco with the £209.99 price on the wifi version of the vita and they said they couldnt
they are still selling it for £219.99 which is mental as for 5 quid more from amazon you get a 30 quid game and a 8gb card.....
mind boggling
they must make so much profit on the consoles
I really don't understand why people are so anti vita keep posting other than trolling.
Have to agree that whilst this offer is good if you just want a vita, you need factor in a game and a card which suddenly makes this offer not very good at all.
Actually you are correct, there has been so much anger in the fact that the 'UMD Passport' sytem isn't available in the US or UK I assumed that it was free (or almost free) but some games are actually £10 to transfer.
But it still remains that I will have to buy my games again if I want to play them on a Vita, so for now I will stick to my psp, which I admit hasn't been used in over a year! lol
Although £165 sounds more reasonable, once I know what exciting new games are coming soon (if any).
If you want a 8GB card, then no it's not a good deal. However, if you want a 16/32GB card, why would you spend an extra £12 at Amazon when that money could go towards the card!