32GB is a conservative amount of space, but I'd much prefer having less out of the box and being able to provide my own storage over having to shell out $100+ for a Microsoft hard drive that's 1/3 the size of the equivalent generic part.
Even so, 32GB is plenty to work with at a start, even with a chunk consumed by the OS. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 takes up 16GB of that space, but it's bloated with pre-rendered movies that few developers rely on these days. Indie ...
It's generally harder to pirate cartridge games. That alone means that it's going to be seriously considered by console manufacturers.
Unfortunately, one of the biggest benefits of cartridge media - the short load times - seems to have been abandoned. The flash memory used in Vita game cards and, to a lesser extent, 3DS game cards is pretty low class. It's less of an issue on the 3DS for whatever reason, but I haven't met a Vita owner that didn't complai...