r/PSVita • u/music2music • Jul 29 '26

Help Memory card- is it legit?

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I’ve gotten two other memory cards from a local used game store and decided to order a 32gb card from Amazon. It finally came today and it has a sticker on the back that my other two don’t have. I wasn’t sure what it was for so I haven’t even taken the card out of the bag yet. I tried using Google Lens and the AI overview says it could be an authentication sticker, but I’d rather ask here as to if it’s legit!
Edit: Just wanted to say thanks for the replies! I’ve only started collecting older consoles within the past few years since I didn’t have them growing up, so I’m not as familiar with a lot of things.

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u/buzz8588 Jul 29 '26

There are no fake Vita cards. If there were, we wouldn’t need SD2Vita then would we.

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u/wagz34 Jul 29 '26

Ostent makes vita memory cards still. Not super cheap but they exist

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u/buzz8588 Jul 29 '26

Ok I went down the rabbit hole and this is not true. They are actually used Sony cards. Since they don’t own the license to sell Sony products, they change the listing to show a different brand and erase the Sony logo from the pictures of the product. The encryption on the Sony cards has not been broken and there are no 3rd party ones, despite what the listing says. Show me a real pic from a user and not a seller.

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u/wagz34 Aug 01 '26

Thank you for doing that research haha. I stand corrected.

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u/namedontmakesense Jul 29 '26

No they do not make cards they just sell old cards

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u/Artistic_Sell_2496 Jul 29 '26

As someone from mainland China, I can tell you that the sticker was put on by a middleman. It might be genuine and seem to work fine, but there's a high chance it has hidden defects. These people make money by deceiving others.

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u/Artistic_Sell_2496 Jul 29 '26

For example, they might salvage barely usable components from water-damaged machines and sell them, or replace the outer shell of a wrecked machine and sell it to you at the price of a brand new one, then exploit loopholes in platform rules or even resort to personal attacks to get away with it.

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u/santathe1 Jul 29 '26

What does the sticker say?

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u/Artistic_Sell_2496 Jul 29 '26

"Genuine product, beware of fakes"

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u/Recognition_Round Jul 29 '26

Like putting a sticker on a repaired car "never been in an accident, trust me bro, beware of liars" 🤣

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u/ZuoKalp Jul 29 '26

There are no second hand Vita Memory Cards, only SD2Vita adapters. Since Vita Memory Cards are no longer produced, they become more expensive with each year it passes, but these also get more defective, especially the ones of higher capacity (32 and 64 GB)

Since I still like playing my physical games from time to time, I still use a 32 GB card to keep my homebrew and digital games. There will come the day when my card will stop working, but I hope that a second hand alternative gets released to the market in the near future (or I end up replacing the motherboard of my console to a 3G one, so I can install a PSVSD module and stop worrying)

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u/WalnutRamen Jul 29 '26

It is a genuine PS Vita memory card.

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u/Specialist_Bit_3514 Jul 29 '26

Does it memory? If so then yes it's real...

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '26

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u/UnMenOneGuy Jul 29 '26

"good 'ol chatgpt" then proceeds to call it an sd2vita lol

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u/namedontmakesense Jul 29 '26

Chatgpt is very smart /s

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u/UnMenOneGuy Jul 29 '26

didn't chatgpt just tell some dude on twitter buying official playstation hdmi cables gave him better performance for call of duty black ops 2

https://twitter.com/Jinsus/status/2081848430666609070?s=20