UMD on the way out..

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heh, shows what u know..

Right....
Yes - everyone knows there is ways to revert back to the old firmware, but it doesn\'t change the point.

Point being..

1: PSP is only moderatly popular due to the homebrew stuff and illegal things. It is not popular because of it\'s own merits, such as gaming.

2: It\'s overpriced.

3: With each firmware update, it does get more difficult to revert back to firmware. Infact, a lot of people have OLD PSPS\', with old firmware just to play the homebrew stuff. Sony is trying to make it more and more difficult to kill all the homebrew stuff and if they ever do accomplish that, then what market the PSP has will be gone.

And as for the above comment about owning a PSP if you travel a lot, I\'d still just go with a DS. I had the chance to get a PSP for free, fiance was goin\' to buy it for my birthday and I asked her not to. It\'d sit and collect dust, I\'d rather have something like a few DVD sets than yet another dust collector.

now i\'m far too uncaring to go out and really search, but does anyone have recent PSP sales data?  
NGage?  now there\'s a failure.

and please stop calling things overpriced, LIC.
it\'s tired

oh, don\'t forget to find me praising the UMD as a movie format, when you have time.

i was bored

At its E3 2006 press conference on May 8, 2006, Kaz Hirai, president of Sony Computer Entertainment America announced the company had shipped 17 million units.

yep, complete "failure".
and blah, blah, the DS is selling better.  if i wanted a toy that played mario, i\'d go buy one also.

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Seriously, Sony\'s been acting so arrogant lately. They even fucked up Blu-Ray (at least for now).

i agree with you here...like i\'ve always stated these companies should just concentrate on making gaming consoles and that\'s it. i still find the price of the ps3 to be too high for the general public. i want sony to be successful and i really thought that they learned lessons from others that have gone down in the business, yet i feel they are just abandoning their core supporters with the price, they act as if the price is no big deal...yes i feel they will move units during the christmas season, but if the blu-ray problems aren\'t fixed by then and they rush these units out just to make it for the holiday season, and combine that with what happens AFTER the holiday season with no price drop, i think sony is going to be in for a rude awakening.

sony started off great with the psx. now they are overly ambitious in what they are tryin to do. wasn\'t ps2 supposed to be the all in one? damn...sony..microsoft...take a look at nintendo, and let\'s just get back to the basics.... i\'ve already posted in another thread that microsoft might drop the price of the 360 before the holidays and if ms does that, it\'s going to put sony in a very critical situation....sorry...i just had to rant on about the arrogant thing...

as far as the psp goes,..i\'ve never been into handhelds whether it was sony or nintendo, so whether this thing falls off or not, makes no difference to me...

*shipped*
 
When you find sales data, we can talk.
 
By the way, calling DS a toy that plays Mario.... that\'s pretty much one of the main selling points lately.
 
The toy that plays GTA:LCS... Meh, not so much.

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Owned by Eik..

And to further that point.

Yeah - what\'s the point in being a handheld GAMING SYSTEM if the the system lacks any compelling games? Yeah, you keep telling yourself the PSP has been a success and that it\'s  good deal, when in reality, it\'s not.

The amazing thing is the Sony fanboys grasp at every straw to justify the PSP price and say that the PSP is a success, but in reality, if you look at it from a gaming standpoint, it has been a failure. It lacks any real compelling games that aren\'t ports and it\'s over-priced. You can call that "tired", but a lot of people feel the same, otherwise the DS wouldn\'t outsell the PSP all the time.

Games and price. That\'s the key to any system, but even more so with a handheld. UMD failing won\'t really hurt the PSP, but it just shows how half baked the PSP plan really was. Sony was banking on brand name and nothing else.

so where\'s the quotes of me praising UMD as a movie format?

or are you going to keep ignoring that part, and continually changing the topic at hand?

i\'ve already stated why nintendo leads the handheld market.  your average user wants a game he can power on and play for 15 minutes, which is not indicitive of what the PSP offers.
sophisticated users (not children) want something more from a handheld, which the PSP does offer.

you prefer the DS, LIC.  good for you, have a cookie.

some users want something else from a handheld, which the PSP does offer.

Fixed to not be offensive to sophisticated people that have a dusty PSP. *cough* ;] And personally, I\'ve almost found all the secrets in the new Mario platformer.
 
By the way, mm, to what you said earlier. At $3.99 I would have definitely bought some movies to watch. As it was, I never got into it. Didn\'t even watch Spiderman, and that came with the system. (Never played the Metroid demo that came with DS either... weird)
 
-Dan

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so where\'s the quotes of me praising UMD as a movie format?

or are you going to keep ignoring that part, and continually changing the topic at hand?

i\'ve already stated why nintendo leads the handheld market.  your average user wants a game he can power on and play for 15 minutes, which is not indicitive of what the PSP offers.
sophisticated users (not children) want something more from a handheld, which the PSP does offer.

you prefer the DS, LIC.  good for you, have a cookie.

I am not digging thru thread after thread for you talking about UMD was viable and offered something to conumsers. You said it, I know it, you know and the whole board knows it. Get over it and move on.

The PSP offers nothing in the way of a handheld gaming system. Yes, it offers MP3\'s and movie\'s, but as a gaming system it offers almost nothing.

It amazes me, that people who "play games" support a system without any killer titles, all because it does more than play games...

:rolleyes:

almost nothing?
you\'re kidding right?

i expected better, really.

[Jumpman]

yeah i should really read the first line of most posts before i post myself

ye

A fine video-game format?

Those 6-minute loadtimes in specific PSP titles beg to differ.

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A fine video-game format?

Those 6-minute loadtimes in specific PSP titles beg to differ.

That\'s just part of being the "sophiscated gamer".

....blame the hardware or the dev?

and blade doesn\'t need a sidekick, he\'s funny enough.

[Titan]

I wonder if the UMD movie format would have succeeded if Sony and other licensed companies made portable players you could take on a plane or travel in a car (when you aren\'t driving preferably). Like the portable DVD players. I mean I would rather have a portable DVD player so I can watch my DVDs. But it is something to ponder, what if they built a portable UMD player?

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odd people can\'t seem to find games to play on psp.

Currently playing Tekken Resurrection, Fight Night round 3, Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition, Pinball Hall of fame, World Snooker Challange 2005, burnout legends and DBZ Shin budokai.   Plenty of games to keep me entertained. Then theres the whole "homebrew" emulators for Snes, Megadrive, neogeo games etc.   Psp just offers far more then DS. Sony may or may not want it to offer this, but it still does. I even use it at school, acts like a great PDA. ohh and LIC, you have no clue, as sony releases new firmware doesn\'t mean u have to update. It simply means games follow suit, then people develope ways around these games wanting higher firmwares. I\'m playing TR and i\'m on firmware 1.5   hmmm.