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Message: [QUOTE="Sumea, post: 243814, member: 569"] That limitation is not so different from 3DS which has it's largest games at that size, for sure no 8gig games on 3DS either. I also dunno "could" since modded vitas use the game card slot as adapter to SD cards up to sizes of even 512 gigabytes, so the cartridges likely could have been easily even 8 gigs, and Sony just thought it is economical for the ecosystem to cut it off at 4 gigs. Not only for physical but digital games of huge size would require huge downloads while their proprietary memory cards were extremely pricey fand maxed at 32 or 64 gigs depending on market. MOST Vita owners got 8 or 16 gig cards. 3DS had Vita beat even there where people could buy easily 64 or even larger microSD cards, albeit those need to be formatted by user to FAT32 first. This is not really a unique challenge to Vita, just that Vita's marketing pushed for graphically more showy games. The balance was off on Vita versus 3DS where push to show off with Vita's power made it hard to come with right balance for games. Meanwhile 3DS had simple stylistic graphics for many games that took less than 1gb of space. Vita in the end is generously underpowered compared to PS3. The comparison is like calling Switch a portable PS4 which is a "yesn't" type of deal. Those Yakuza ports would have been by necessity even more graphically and framerate downgraded from the PS3. Only games like Neptunia, Atelier or Senran maintain apparent graphical parity. As far as I understand, largest official Vita game was likely final Vita version of Phantasy Star Online 2 which was around 16-17 gigabytes. Required one of the largest memory cards almost entirely for that one game at that point. I got to try few rounds of it before service was shut down for vita and they did end the support for a reason, even though the run was valiant. Some other games also have "Download expansion" type of deal like World of Final Fantasy adding voice acting as a free DLC, and few other games do similar types of deals like Danganronpa v3. Still, comparing to competition and PSP, 4gigs should have been plenty for a Vita game. And it was for many many titles. It would not been economical to try push for 10 gig games regularly on system that had 120 dollar 64 gig cards, only in one region and most people got their Vita with 8 or 16 gigs. It seems like a limitation only through future vision to past because for the time, it was completely sensible decision. They could have likely made special release of 8-15 gig yakuza for vita but clientele for those was a customer who owns a Vita (Nobody owned a Vita) that has a large memory card (nobody bought the biggest memory cards for their Vita) and are willing to pay big bucks and use an entire Sony max taxed memory card for that one game. PSO2 at least was a special case, F2P game that was updated to the huge size, at first it was just 4~ gigs. TL;DR: Talk about 4 gig cartridge maximums is a lot more complicated. Like a wall of text complicated matter. [/QUOTE]

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