Ludendorkk
(he/him)
and yeah, while playstation consoles have been good about hard drives for almost 20 years now...i really think the high price of vita memory sticks severely hindered the platform, and it feels still like a totally baffling decision to me considering they had already released a model of the psp with no UMD, relying solely on memory space for its media usage. obviously given monster hunter and pokemon i don't think they were ever really going to be keeping pace with the 3ds, but i still think it was incredibly shortsighted.
Former devs have admitted on the record that Vita's proprietary memory existed solely because Sony corporate had no faith in the Vita and demanded it as a way to offload cost on to the consumer