AT&T Reveals PlayStation Vita Data Pricing, US Availability

Or just get the wifi model and buy a mobile hotspot plan from clear and get 4G data for $35 unlimited a month. Maybe use that for your laptop and home usage too?

Ehh -.- Data plans and all this junk for a console?
I think I would just stick with the WiFi model and tether it to my phone if I needed internet for it.

So, you pay $50 extra so you can pay $25 a month for a horrible data plan? I hope those numbers are incorrect, but I doubt they are. Watching a handful of youtube videos and just a little online gaming will eat through 2GB in no time.

you know I thought this was a, can't say the word I want, complete joke when I first heard AT&T got it. But then I look at these plans, they really aren't that bad, considering I was thinking this would cost close to $50-$100 for the same amount.

These are also the contract, so it's kind of like buying one of those prepaid cards. If rollovers offered, I could see reason why not to get a 3G version. I have over 50Mbit download and 5mbit upload and a wifi in the home, so I don't need 3G there. Let's say have to visit a relative, or worse yet I have to go far far away from normal technology, I still get a signal just a Wi-Fi. I could see shelling out $15-$25 so I could use the Internet. Granted I wouldn't be streaming movies, I can keep in touch with every website a visit probably for full month on the 250 MB plan, if they allow some kind of ad/image/flash block.

keep in mind this is pretty much for emergencies only.

2 GB per month for $25? so you pay $25 per month even through you only use 2mb and there will still nothing be leave over the next month. I will love it more if it is $25 for 2GB could be inactive in a year.

wonder how many times people are paying for the same amount on bandwidth.

Unless ofcourse you're using your phone at the same time as your PS, at the same time as your other devices.

Mobile plans should be on a per person basis (2gb over all devices, unlimited over all devices etc).

It's just getting rediculous. Data plans are just a scam

Because ATnT always sticks to their terms forever.

hopefully sony gets their ass kicked for pricing the psv over $200 and nearly $300 for the 3g version. they should really really take some lessons from nintendo 3ds. sell psv for $170~ and make more profit from games and other contents.

From the price of the console itself, the extremely high memory card prices, the price of the games, and to top it off the data plans this little handheld is going to cost the consumer a fortune. Lets take just the first year alone.

$300 for the handheld
$100 for the 32GB memory card.
15 or 25 X 12 data $180 or $300
40 x 6 for games $240(6 games is realistic and prices seem to be 30-50 so 40 is the average)

So just the first year alone it would easily cost $820 to $940. The following years would be likely cheaper for the consumer but if the average games purchased is maintained at 6 this would mean each following year the consumer with a data plan would pay $420 to $540 a year.

Is a handheld really worth that much money to invest in?

This is all just temporary. If and when it becomes popular ATT will start sticking all the customers in the...

I wouldn't even consider buying this product, and certainly not any ridiculous data plan to play a handheld console.

I def won't be buying one in the UK, if it's costing that much in the US then it'll cost the same in £'s if not more, good old rip off britain, where consumers wallets have 50 credit card slots & companies get away with robbing consumers,

"2 GB per month for $25"

So watching a DVD quality movie would cost you over $50 ?

This so reminds me so of early phone/dialup per minute and website $ per hit charges.
I'm sure it will eventually go the way of the dodo.

God (moderators!), I wish there was a way to go back and fix one's spelling errors in a post :-)

Played one at a Sony event.

Was not that great. Graphics ok (not exactly what I was hoping for) and it constantly froze.

If you really want a portable gaming device then there is nothing better than the IPod Touch

"Holy bandwidth Batman" says Robin "Now I know why you are a billionaire we download a 99 mb's a second 24/7"

It's going to be the PS3 launch all over again. Everyone kind of wants one, because hey, it really is the most powerful device in its class. But that price tag...

I'm guessing most people are looking at this and saying "300 bucks? Screw that, I'll just keep gaming on my smartphone."

What has this world come to? 30 years ago, three major networks broadcast their content over the airwaves and it was free. It was supported by the advertisers. Now, you have to pay for the data, pay for the content, and yet there are still boocoo advertisements. These carriers must be making money hand over fist.

I would never ever support a data plan.

$25 for 2gb is THEFT.

Well when you're too lazy to get more customers by innovating and coming out with a new idea or superior products, or too lazy to compete with your competition you simply raise prices on your current customers.... Gotta remember the economy isn't about getting more customers by being a better service anymore. Now it's about milking people for as much as you can while spending as little as possible to maintain the status quo, so you can please the shareholders and keep your job.

Now if you're lucky your current customers have no other choice of service, which means it's your way or the highway. Electric company monopolies in a given area for example. Or cable service provider monopolies in a given area.

Now to the data plan consider the fact your average game is going to be 500+ MB, all I can say is I hope you have wifi.

There is no contract, so like you might on an iPad, you turn on your data plan when you need it and then turn it off when you're done and don't pay anything between.

And if that was the case, I would certainly add my wife's phone on my plan so she didn't have to pay for data... might as well add my parents, sister, mother-in-law, etc, since combined we'd probably not hit the 2Gb cap...

I think you'd find that a DVD quality rip is a huge amount of overkill for a small screen device [presumably if you are streaming content to your portable device to a large HD TV you are doing so in an environment with wifi]. Using the standard handbrake settings, I get most DVD movies around 600-1200 MB, so that takes us from $50 per DVD movie down to $8 to $15 per movie.

Playing with the Handbrake settings a bit, I have movies averaging around 300MB that still look great on the iPad's 9.7" screen, which is then just ~$4 worth of data per movie. Going down to 4-6" screens, you can probably halve it again... now ~$2.

Next question-- is what are you doing when you have 90-120 minutes to kill, no wifi and can use 3G? Personally, I can't think of any... delayed flight at the airport? I suppose havign a movie to entertain me would be worth a couple of bucks, but don't most airports have free wifi these days?

Hmm...

25gb for 2gb of data is a bit of a ripoff, I suppose, but I'm considering that it's 25 bucks for 2gb data + 2 dollars 50 cents for unlimited US+Canada Skype calls.... for a total of 27.50 for a cell phone replacement option.

Cheap compared to my current cell phone bill, which I would rather not think about, because it may send me into a freaking panic attack....

2GB for $25... that should seriously be illegal, this is 2012. Prices like this make me feel like I'm in the dark ages, glad I was never considering a 3G model to begin with.

The part that confuses me is that millions of people every week are signing two year contracts for Smart Phones with more expensive data plans... $30-$40 for 2GB.

Why is $25 with NO CONTRACT absolutely absurd while your phone plans are OK??

I would never online game on the 3G. I have a Japanese PSVita and the plan here is 100hrs 3G for about $25. I only use it for some things when I'm on the go. When I game online I'm always on Wifi at home or at a hotspot. Other than that I use 3G just to check something on the web browser or check in somewhere or chat with friends on their PS3 or FB. That barely uses any data. 2GB for $25 isn't too bad if you're using it like me. For all that other high data stuff just use wifi,PS3, or your phone data plan to web browse.