16GB of love: the new $300 Memory Stick

by Andrew Yoon { Jan 6th 2008 at 9:45PM }

Can you ever have too much? Sony says not, as it has just announced a 16GB version of its PSP/PS3-compatible Memory Stick PRO Duo. Coming this March, it will retail for $300. If you buy one, please tell us so that we can be very, very jealous of you. There isn't much else to say -- it is what it is. And it is awesome.

[Thanks, lordshadow!]

Tags: 16gb, ces, memory-stick

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Don @ Jan 6th 2008 9:52PM

Wasn't it this time last year that the 8GB memory stick was introduced, for like $300.00? At least the price has dropped quite a bit since then.

So I guess next January will be the 32 GB....

Haiddasalami @ Jan 6th 2008 10:14PM

yup...hopefully 32gb comes out and this sucker goes to the price of the 8gb and so on. the 1gb is like 25 less. I got it gor 60 when the 2giggers were out.

d_g @ Jan 7th 2008 12:44AM

http://www.memorystick.org/eng/aboutms/detail/capacity_trend.html

Lars @ Jan 7th 2008 5:09PM

As usual.

I'm bummed that the 32GB stick isn't out yet. Early last year I read a statement saying "we are fairly confident we'll have a 32GB [stick] by the end of the year." Which means I'd buy one around xmas 2008 (I usually wait about a year for price drops before I buy something like that). At this rate it'll be released around xmas 2008!

Oh well. I just bought a 4GB to tide me over. My entire music library is around 30GB, I'd love to be able to just keep all that on my PSP.

James @ Jan 6th 2008 9:56PM

$300? Might have to get myself one of these.

lorddshadow @ Jan 6th 2008 10:00PM

If youre willing to pay way more than a psp b my guest

that was pretty fast andrew.

lorddshadow @ Jan 6th 2008 10:00PM

If youre willing to pay way more than a psp b my guest

that was pretty fast andrew.

lorddshadow @ Jan 6th 2008 10:01PM

sry bout the double post

kinda strange

wisemanleo @ Jan 6th 2008 10:12PM

Bright side is that the 8gb stick will probably go down in price pretty soon! 4gb is quickly eaten up by my music and video collection, let alone Playstation Store downloadables.

Draco @ Jan 6th 2008 10:31PM

Did Sony make this just for the mod community?

Tristan @ Jan 6th 2008 11:11PM

lol this looks amazing, i will ask for it for my bday

Tim Parsons @ Jan 6th 2008 11:23PM

damn nice,. wont catch me paying that much for it though,. i alreayd got a 4GB in my PSP and a 4Gb in my PS3 and a 1GB in my SONYEricson cell,. and out of that in total i'm only using up 2 gb ,.

B1gC72 @ Jan 7th 2008 12:50AM

this is great since it means the 8GB will drop even more in price pretty soon.

on the other hand, i dont really know who Sony is targeting with these $300 price tags on these Memory Sticks. the prices fall so fast it's like "what's the point of even marking them that high at all". i would never pay $300 for a Memory Stick, do you realize you could get a 160GB iPod for just $50 more? $50=10x the space? and yes i realize it's HDD vs. Flash and not to mention the convenience of convergence, but still...

ill buy it when it's around $80 like i do with every new Memory Stick. but that 8GB is almost in my price range now.

James @ Jan 7th 2008 7:46AM

The photography market, solid state video recorder market, users who are serious about the TV-DVR functionality of the PSP?

You think they made this specifically for cheap PSP users :p

Lars @ Jan 7th 2008 5:19PM

Well, they could just not sell any until it gets cheap enough to manufacture at a reasonable price... or they could start selling them as soon as they make the advancement in capacity.

I mean, by your argument Flash media shouldn't exist at all, or even 2.5" drives. Why would anyone make anything other than a 5.25" drive which provides the best cost/dollar ratio?!

Bottom line: You don't have to buy it. The people who do buy these things want to be on the cutting edge. And Sony is making them happy.

John @ Jan 7th 2008 12:56AM

If it continues like this sony will be able to make laptops with a few 32 gb inside. Maybe 3 years once the price has gone down. A 2 inch solid state 64, 96, or 128 gb harddrive. That would be the start of the nano solid state labtop computers. Maybe we will be able to drop the price of them and have them as a standard inside cell phones and other small gadgets.

noyd_mcbennet @ Jan 7th 2008 1:47AM

and all this time i thought using a 512 mb stick was okay..

with the introduction of the PS store i can see why everyone wants to go gig crazy. i however am still figuring out how to boot windows on to my macbook. -_-;;

redbrick @ Jan 7th 2008 3:51AM

I hope future firmware will have better file format support. The fat32 support is pitful with games. With MS this high...you can forget about efficient use of 16gig or more.

maverick_saturn_626 @ Jan 7th 2008 5:06AM

Drop an 80 gb bombshell on us and we are talking ;) Then we can laugh at those ipod and PS3 owners.

mrmilomannowra @ Jan 7th 2008 7:01AM

if they came out with a 30-80 gig memory stick I'd ditch my ipod alltogether ..

Eric Stafford @ Jan 7th 2008 8:10AM

I just got an 8gb for Christmas it was still $150-but it's friggin' sweet!

Alien @ Jan 7th 2008 8:12AM

I have a 4 giga stick , and untill now its more than enough ... but later on who knows :)

Cameron @ Jan 7th 2008 12:33PM

This weekend I was about to buy an 8 gig... With this announcement I would venture to guess that the price will drop from 130 to about 70-80. "Me likey"

NukeAssault @ Jan 7th 2008 3:15PM

Sweet lord... 16gb on a psp.... thats alot of pron.

.P@BsLpKn @ Jan 7th 2008 9:51PM

Awesome i cant wait to have this baby on my PSP....and also a 80 gig Memory Stick....wow ^^

Zann @ Jan 7th 2008 11:39PM

why don't they just release the 32gb version already? as if 300 bucks is that cheap .. throw in the whole deal, c'mon Sony! :D

andwhyisit @ Jan 8th 2008 11:12PM

Wow, I need this much memory but I don't want to wait 2 months or buy an 8 gig with this down the track. *sigh*

Perverted @ Jan 12th 2008 5:32AM

I bought my 4Gb for £18 why would i pay £150(most likely it will be £200) for this? I'd rather just by 3 more 4GB versions which is like 1/2 price...
In fact a 1TB external HDD costs about £150...
I know people like the whole 1 card more GB thing......but not for me sorry.

nick chan @ Jan 29th 2008 4:03AM

hi bought a non sony 4GB memory stick with lifetime warranty for my PSP at US$36
so, if i need 16GB, I'll just buy 4 of them, $144
32GB = $288

It can let me "store" 10 games or so.

So I'll predict 16GB MemoryStick by end year will cost $130, made by chinese, with lifetime warranty.