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Sony PlayStation Vita gets cut

Is Sony being stingy, or will halving Vita’s memory save us all money?

Dan Grabham Dan Grabham

The Sony PlayStation Vita has been in the pipeline for a long time, all the while threatening to blow mobile phone gaming out of the water with its mighty 512MB of RAM. Now Sony’s saying it will be sailing the good ship Vita out half-mast, with only 256MB. Sounds bad, but when you think its predecessor, the PSP did wonders with just 32MB of memory, the idea stars to make sense. Halving the memory will make huge savings that should be passed on to us consumers, without compromising the next gen gaming prowess of, potentially, the last stand against mobile phone gaming.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home