The current firmware 2.6 for the PSP only supports up to 4-gb of storage. So more memory will be dependant on a massive firmware upgrade. As for the price, they could never sell an 8 gig for that price in the American market. They only speculate the rediculous price based on taking a 1-gig and multiplying it by 8. That doesn't work, let's say a 100gb. hard drive for a PC is $100.00, that does not make a 400gb $400.00. Plus as memory sticks get more mass produced by other companies like Sandisk, the supply will go up, and the demand will go down, forcing the price to be lower...
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The current firmware 2.6 for the PSP only supports up to 4-gb of storage. So more memory will be dependant on a massive firmware upgrade. As for the price, they could never sell an 8 gig for that price in the American market. They only speculate the rediculous price based on taking a 1-gig and multiplying it by 8. That doesn't work, let's say a 100gb. hard drive for a PC is $100.00, that does not make a 400gb $400.00. Plus as memory sticks get more mass produced by other companies like Sandisk, the supply will go up, and the demand will go down, forcing the price to be lower...