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Genius for Sony.
How do you make a profit? Just release a sleek portable mobile entertainment experience that only accepts a special, non-universal card format, and make it required to even do anything meaningful without it. Then cheaply produce said card with inferior standard transfer speeds.
For 25% of the price, you can get a MicroSD card that is literally 3 to 5 times faster, and is widely accepted among most devices. Genius of Sony to get rid of it's competition just by slightly adjusting the mold flash storage is made so that cheaper, faster, better, and more versatile alternatives are excluded, and the price unjustly priced several times than what they're really worth or cost of make.
It just goes to show that a company doesn't need to make great software and hardware to make profit. All they need to do is cheaply create something you don't want, are disappointed in, but are required to have, and then jack up the price to unreasonable levels.
July 2012 · Video Games