Deal of the Day: 8GB Memory Stick for $57

by Andrew Yoon { Jul 24th 2008 at 6:00PM }

Holy falling prices, Batman! The 8GB Memory Stick, once placed high on a pedestal of "things we want but are way too expensive for us to get," is now available for $57 shipped on amazon.com. We're definitely going to pick one up, if only to download even more movies off the new Video section of the PS Store.

[Thanks, Nate T.!]

Tags: 8gb, deal, dealoftheday, memory-stick

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Shin @ Jul 24th 2008 6:26PM

Lol, sure..."videos". : D
8GB can hold like 7-10 games. :)

Jacksons @ Jul 24th 2008 6:30PM

This keeps getting more and more tempting.

Dustin @ Jul 24th 2008 7:20PM

geeeeez, I remember when I bout my 1gb stick that was on sale for $80 back in the day. (year the PSP came out, 2005? forgot, cause the PS3 came out in 2006) now that was a swigging deal.

what? @ Jul 24th 2008 7:21PM

yeah mon- I saw this on amazon last week and it arrived in the mail on Tuesday Woot

what? @ Jul 24th 2008 7:23PM

BTW - (I have this very 8gb card)... The photos aren't very fast to load on PSP. Photos are about 2.5mb. Do ya'll suspect this is the card speed on this ProDuo or is it a PSP issue... you see the same issue?

tekdroid @ Jul 25th 2008 4:48AM

in my experience, photos are best resized before transferring to the PSP (for speed). I use a regular Sandisk 2GB, fwiw. I doubt the card read speed would be a major factor. I think the bottleneck is the PSP itself.

Xaijin @ Jul 25th 2008 4:57AM

It'd be related to the memory stick. Try getting a mark 2/ultra 2 or greater.

tekdroid @ Jul 25th 2008 7:13AM

I must have misinterpreted what you wrote. By 'load' I thought you meant view on the PSP itself. Writing to the card itsef? Yeah, some of the faster ones have faster write speeds.

The PSP is sort of slow shuffling through the pics the bigger they are, and 'adds detail' to the pics one second after displaying the initial pic, as you probably know. I find that annoying and only found an improvement going through pics (speed-wise) after they were resized.

Meingut @ Jul 24th 2008 9:11PM

wow so cheap. Im going to buy one now. Saw one for $60 at a Microcenter, but its a Lexar.

Nate @ Jul 24th 2008 10:58PM

Nate T? that's me!

tekdroid @ Jul 25th 2008 4:50AM

It's a shame Sandisk/Sony still charge around double for these things compared to SD. Has anyone gone into the reason why? :)

joey @ Jul 25th 2008 1:29PM

it's Sony's propitiatory format.
Sandisk and Lexar probably license it from Sony.

I believe SD is an open format.
More Manufacturers, lower prices.

tekdroid @ Jul 25th 2008 10:17PM

joey,
yeah it was more of a rhetorical question. SD (and derivatives) are not an open format, but are more popular, and we all know there's some nice price-gouging going on with Sony's format.

Sandisk regular 8GB goes for $25 USD. Now how they can justify over double is beyond me. Must be all that piracy they need to control :p

Jiffylush @ Jul 25th 2008 9:43AM

Thanks for the heads up, mine is on its way.

Jiffylush @ Jul 25th 2008 9:46AM

You mean like parrapa the rapper?

only 22.99!

uh, wait, that doesn't seem like a great deal...

joey @ Jul 25th 2008 1:24PM

Sweet, I just bought one on impulse.

Jurgen @ Jul 25th 2008 8:47PM

Dang, this sure sucks LoL. I just bought a 4gig one the other day for 40 pounds, close to 80 dollars.

jake18oly (XBL,PSN: RSXtypeSfan) @ Jul 26th 2008 3:23PM

Thanks for the heads up! I ordered it to go with my new PSP.

jitty @ Jul 27th 2008 10:16PM

Amazing, if they're not taking a loss on this, then this is very good news. The 8GB memory stick could become cheap enough so that sony could start using the same technology to create some sort of flash storage for the psp2 instead of UMD. It would be great because it would take up less space, faster load times and longer battery life.