Vita games - Digital vs Physical

[Ninja Catfish]

I haven't got a Vita myself, but planning to get one soon.
What I am wondering though, how are people buying their games? Are you still buying cards containing the games, or buying them from PSN/SEN and downloading them?

I feel like I'd be inclined to download from PSN. The games can't be stolen or lost, and I don't have to carry around a case of game card with me.
I've become used to having everything on the system thanks to my PSP Go and iPhone.

That said, if a game was cheaper physically, it'd be hard to convince myself to buy it digitally.

What do you guys do?

[Artful-dodgeR]

While I don't own one, my mate downloads everything. He's basically in the Steam mindset whereby your games are always there and its just simpler.

[Cas Bitton]

At launch I grabbed a 32GB card, I'm using around half of it at present. Yep, a few cheap PSN cards on sale pushed me towards a number of digital purchases recently in combination with some fantastic PSN sales.

The convenience of having what you want on hand at all times is awesome! As usual there is always a downside, games really do vary in size. Some PSN only titles are a bit smaller ~500mb, but if your grabbing regular games like wipeout 1.4gb, Resistance ~3GB. The initial choice of memory card size will start to show it's true value (or lack of) in a few minutes if you didn't put much pre-thought into it and just grabbed a 4GB card to get you by.

• Games I absolutely adore, that have replay value and I'll always want to have on hand = Digital - So far this has been Wipeout
• Games that are massive in size (it's pretty easy to determine this with a google search), I'll import at a reduced price and happily throw the card in = Physical - So far this has been MLB 12 The Show, Uncharted

I'll be grabbing plenty more PSone/PSN titles over the next few months, nothing is overly massive in size but it is bloody awesome to get games on demand at launch .

I managed to get Gravity Rush minutes after it was released in Aus, cheaper then JBHIFI and with the bonus DLC because I grabbed it from PSN during the launch week. I can't find an issue with that at all .

[Ninja Catfish]

Thanks for your thoughts guys!

I think I will probably go with a combination of digital and physical, but mostly digital.
I've grown used to having everything with me at all times

I'll certainly be grabbing a 32GB memory card when I do get the Vita, I have filled up my 18GB storage on my Go (internal + a 2GB card) rather easily

[Cas Bitton]

Yeah shop around when it comes to the memory card. I picked up the 32GB card delivered a few weeks before the Vita even launched in Aus, for $78

[Mekon]

Physical obviously has the resale benefit... plus you can pick Vita games up substantially cheaper on Amazon (caveat: steer clear of multiplayer games or ones you may buy DLC for, as you have to use a US PSN account).

That said, I'm mostly buying digital these days just for convenience - no dicking around switching memory cards, etc.

[Cas Bitton]

caveat: steer clear of multiplayer games or ones you may buy DLC for, as you have to use a US PSN account).

This is very important!

While games are region free, the Playstation pass is not.

If you want to play multiplayer or get DLC later on, buy it locally and save your self a headache.

[Warnut]

i personally like buying my games physically over digital, more coz they aint set price and i normally get them cheaper then the psn store and they dont take ages to dl if they are a 3+gig file if psn is slow and physical if in stocks right there in ya hand..... obviously if its digital only from PSN then i will have to get it digitally.

reason i dont like digital for the vita is it takes up space on the card i got a 16gig as 32gig wasnt out at the time i got mine, maybe if they made a 60+gig card or something going be a differant story... if you catch my drift, I'm not having 20 cards lying around expecially the size of them changing them coz i want to play GTA or MGS and have to figure out which card its on to play it...