The console will also use a new proprietary memory card designed to thwart piracy.
Sony has tried to innovate in hardware terms with OLED screens, proprietary memory card formats, proprietary optical discs and strange touch pads underneath the display.
Music tracks must be stored on a plug-in memory card, and the PSP's memory slot only supports Sony's proprietary Memory Stick Duo format.
If you're a Vita buyer sans one of these mothers and their data-wire umbilicals, you will be reliant on proprietary memory cards (why not SD?) of excessive expense (£40 for 16GB) and unrealistic size caps (16GB is the largest, with Uncharted 4GB alone).
You need a proprietary USB cable to plug the thing into your PC or PS3, and the system has no internal memory for game data, so if you want to save your progress or download titles you'll need one of the – yes – proprietary memory cards.
CONS: No built-in storage, uses proprietary Memory Stick format, odd resolution.
Shame they still insist on making us use their proprietary Memory Stick storage format.
There's also an RSS reader, 3.5-inch touchscreen, 1.3-megapixel camera, slide-out keyboard, and one gigabyte of memory that's expandable via Sony's proprietary Memory Stick cards.
Sure, they wield Carl Zeiss optics and have high-end engineering, but they also rely on Sony's proprietary Memory Sticks (for now, anyway).
While we think Sony does make decent digicams, we can't support its use of proprietary memory formats, mostly because it's just plain selfish.
While rival Sony has launched several players and other devices that use its proprietary Memory Stick storage cartridges, Matsushita has been working with several companies, including Toshiba and SanDisk, to make the SD Card technology and industry standard.
