The magical limit for iPhone games on the App Store – 20MB – has been carried over to PS Vita.
We’ve talked about this with developers in the past, if your game is bigger than 20MB then it will be less of an impulse buy because potential customers will need to wait until they get to a Wi-Fi point to download it, rather than just grabbing it whilst out and about on 3G.
Speaking at ASCII, a Sony representative confirmed that the limit will be there for the 3G version of the Vita, at least initially. This will hopefully result in much smaller apps than we’re used to (even Minis can run up to 100MB) and – fingers crossed – some cheaper apps to.
If PS Vita is to be as mass market as Sony are hoping for, they’re going to need to work on those prices.
In related news, Army Corps of Hell, one of the PS Vita’s early Japanese games, will not need a memory card to save games. The confusion came from a box art for the title showing the requirement for a memory card, but the full release will not require one, instead saving to the game card itself.
Square Enix’s game will also be ‘priced like a PSP title’ and will be cheaper to download from the Store than buy physically. not that this will prevent other games from doing differently, and those memory cards aren’t cheap.
Read all about the launch line-up, with details on pricing, here.