
With the PS Vita now out in Japan, the Examiner got its hands on a list of PS Vita game and app download sizes from the country’s PSN Store. The sizes range from the extremely tiny — 14MB for Nico Nico — to the fairly hefty — 3.1GB for fighter BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend.
As you’d expect, Uncharted: Golden Abyss is up there at 2.7GB, while Ridge Racer is more easily consumable at 561MB.
The Vita’s proprietary memory cards come in 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities. By the looks of these download sizes, it might be worth splashing out for the 16GB or 32GB, especially seeing as Sony has retracted its earlier statement that said PSN accounts were bound to memory cards and not the console.
Here’s the full list:
AR Combat DigiQ: Friend Tank Battalion – 220 MB
Army Corps of Hell – 598 MB
Asphalt Injection – 724 MB
BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend – 3180 MB
Extreme Escape Adventure: Good People Die – 121 MB
Dark Quest: Alliance – 1057 MB
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention – 1619 MB
Dream Club Zero Portable – 2835 MB
Dynasty Warriors Next – 1485 MB
Everybody’s Golf 6 – 1100 MB
F1 2011 – 1435 MB
Little Deviants – 869 MB
Live Tweet – 5760 KB
Lord of Apocalypse – 1427 MB
Mahjong Fight Club – 793 MB
Michael Jackson: The Experience HD – 1225 MB
Minna to Issho: Friend Network – 168 MB
Monster Radar – 1640 MB
Nico Nico – 14 MB
Power Smash 4 – 1241 MB
Ridge Racer – 561 MB
Shinobido 2: Revenge of Zen – 1057 MB
Touch My Katamari – 744 MB
True Night of the Kamaitachi: The 11th Visitor – 793 MB
Uke-torne – 16 MB
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 – 1350 MB
Uncharted: Golden Abyss – 2777 MB
Download sizes revealed for PS Vita launch games and apps [Examiner]

















Darren
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 2:34 PMIn a way its good for aussies getting the Vita at a later date.
It will give the grey market time to build and distribute knock off memory cards that don’t carry exorbitant prices.
Braaains
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 3:15 PMAlthough you then have to be wary of other potential for future firmware updates that might render those knock off cards useless. Didn’t MS do something similar that stopped some unofficial 360 accessories from working?
Bill
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 4:37 PMthat was Sony. A lot of the 3rd party controllers stopped working.
f4ction
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 4:59 PMI seem to recall MS doing it too at some point
AkIRA
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 5:16 PMM$ did it a while ago. Which is why you pay stupid amounts for a HDD and memory card. I still can’t believe that a modern console uses memory cards.
NegativeZero
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 5:49 PMThe 360 has supported using a standard USB memory stick instead of a memory card for saving games etc since a firmware update about a year and a half ago, coinciding with the release of the ‘slim’ model.
Stevorooni
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 5:18 PMDoes the console come with a memory card, or is it going to be “lol you just spent $350 and can’t save your game unless you spend another $50″
NegativeZero
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 5:26 PMSome of the games support saving on their own cartridge, some don’t. And it’s Sony, they never include anything like this in the box.
dmag87
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 6:25 PMIf you only spent $350 that wouldn’t even get you a game either. Why would anyone buy this over a 3ds or even a ps3?
Chrissomerry
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 7:25 PMI sadly agree, this doesn’t seem very competitively marketed, sorry Sony, love you and all, but already having a 3DS is a bit of an impediment towards me spending big again :( (compatibility with the PSP has also annoyed me, I’m just gonna get one of those cheap e1000′s or whatever consoles for a replacement PSP instead (mine’s broke)).
Martin
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 2:25 AMWhat cartridge?
Lanky Mikey
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 6:32 PMBest case scenario you will have to wait and see what kind of package deals the different retailers are offering.
Surely someone will offer a Vita plus a game and a memory stick (instead of a lousy accessory pack) for a competitive price.
Chamboosy
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 3:44 AMThat’s what I’m hoping. I’m sure that after a month or two there’ll be a deal for that. I mean, who wants some blue earphones?
Milton
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 6:19 PMAre we still using those damn sony memory cards? I had 3 and 2 of them just stopped working for my psp. I tried doing a reformat and everything, which worked the first time for one of them but eventually both refused to be detected. It’d be nice if we don’t use memory cards that are fragile as glass.
James
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 8:52 PMNope. These are a new type of proprietary Sony memory card.
Teddy
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 7:32 PMHopefully they will release some information about their planned high capacity battery for the vita before its release outside of Asia. The currenr battery life is definitely not up to par for a handheld console.
Pariah
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 7:54 PMWow, UMvC3 isn’t even 2gb..
Zap
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 8:14 PMDay one buy.
Don’t care about the nitpicky complaints people have.
Day. Fricken. One.
Brendothejet
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 9:42 AMI agree dude. All this moaning about memory cards. Perhaps if people didn’t spend all their time trying to steal games SONY wouldnt be going to such lengths to create proprietry media.
Anyway, I got a 32gb card from hong kong for 100 bucks. That should do the trick. I’d rather pay for a memory card as an add on than have to buy a second analog nub as an add on lol
Lazysleep
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 10:19 PMI want a Vita, I really do. But I cant help but think its destined to crash & burn….
Pariah
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 10:33 PMThen use a 3DS. At least they’re not region lo–Oh..wait…
Lazysleep
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 11:18 PMGot a 3DS, 2 of them actually lol
Next!!
Pariah
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 11:24 PMLol, impressive xD
chris
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 2:45 AMHuh, thier launch catalogue is already almost better then the entire 3ds one.i think it will do just fine. Better hardware, graphics and features will help it along too.
I want one!
Thom
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 6:40 PMBut the price and the proprietary add ons. And the 3DS is starting to get a decent library. Of course, I’m one of those ass holes that does all their mobile gaming on their phone, so my opinions on these things are moot.
Michael Barnes
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 12:15 AMWow I was expecting Ridge Racer to be only about 100MB or something. half a gig eh?
Justin
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 6:24 AMIt must be used up getting the announcer to be as obnoxious as possible.
Michael Barnes
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 4:22 PMYES!
BlueMaxima
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 7:29 PMOh wow, Extreme Escape Adventure is only 121mb?
Korwin
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 8:04 AMCan’t wait to see the inevitable stories to the tune of “I downloaded a 3.1GB game over 3G, now my Telco want’s $4000″.
Zap
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 8:41 AMThink it’s actually set up so that if the d/l is over a certain small size, it won’t allow it to be done via 3G
MrBS
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 8:25 AMBlazBlue and Uncharted are on the list. Maybe UMvC3…
Jesse
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 9:48 PMI like how the supposed 16 gb memory cards are all really 14 gb i mean wtf is up with that.
james braselton
Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 12:14 PMhi there were are the 32,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 byte cards