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Sony America scraps UMD-to-PSP Go conversion plans
Sony America scraps UMD-to-PSP Go conversion plans
Joystiq - September 25, 2009
Submitted by afsplat (130) at 12:34PM PST on September 25, 2009
Sony director of hardware marketing John Koller mentioned shortly after the E3 "reveal" of the PSP Go that the company was considering a "good will program," which would allow UMD owners to trade in their physical games for digital versions. However, yesterday at the Tokyo Game Show, an SCEA spokesperson told Kotaku, "We were evaluating a UMD conversion program, but due to legal and technical reasons we will not be offering the program at this time."
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1apujanata posted on PlayStation Portable (PSP) at 8:02PM PST on September 25, 2009. RE: Sony America scraps UMD-to-PSP Go conversion plansPSP Go sent to die ?
There are so many things wrong with PSP Go :
1 no UMD game conversion (I am not asking for free conversion, but paying $5 / game should be tolerable / reasonable, to reward their paying customer)
2 Europeretailer refusing to carry PSP Go because of their DD only content
3 to big difference in price.
Predicting NPD future for PSP will be very interesting.[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
1afsplat posted on PlayStation Portable (PSP) at 12:45PM PST on September 25, 2009. RE: Sony America scraps UMD-to-PSP Go conversion plansbids
1PhilHarrision posted on PlayStation Portable (PSP) at 12:37PM PST on September 25, 2009. RE: Sony America scraps UMD-to-PSP Go conversion plans@afsplat,Sony truly doesn't seem to think things through AT ALL. It is like they are still working with 150 different departments all pulling in different directions. Would be nice if they could get their act together sometime this generation.
Licencing deals seem to be beyond their ability...look at SingStar in the US market...RB/GH/Lips even all get North American CURRENT talent...when Singstar fans BEG SONY for some new stuff all they hear is 'Licencing is hard'.
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11afsplat posted on PlayStation Portable (PSP) at 12:34PM PST on September 25, 2009. Article: Sony America scraps UMD-to-PSP Go conversion plansSony director of hardware marketing John Koller mentioned shortly after the E3 "reveal" of the PSP Go that the company was considering a "good will program," which would allow UMD owners to trade in their physical games for digital versions. However, yesterday at the Tokyo Game Show, an SCEA spokesperson told Kotaku, "We were evaluating a UMD conversion program, but due to legal and technical reasons we will not be offering the program at this time."[ Oracle ] [ Level 22 ] [ Rank: 130 ]
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The PSPgo is for new users interested in more robust games than iPod in a similar form factor. It has expandable 16gb built in...a PSP3000 with 16GB would cost about the same as a go...you'd get a umd drive but lose portability/bluetooth. 16GB Touch doesn't exist but an 8gb is 199 and a 32 is 299 both are non expandable. Seen from this point of view it can be justified.
Personally I'm disapointed too...I have a PSP with a broken UMD and was hoping for an upgrade path that would allow me to move my umd collection to digital.