Comments on: Sony planned UMD-less PSP all along http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/02/sony-planned-umd-less-psp-all-along/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:27:05 -0500 hourly 1 By: PSP Go: faster under the hood, but you probably won’t notice http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/02/sony-planned-umd-less-psp-all-along/comment-page-1/#comment-1049307 PSP Go: faster under the hood, but you probably won’t notice Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:10:32 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98662#comment-1049307 [...] addition to a Mylo-esque physique and UMD-less guts, it seems that the PSP Go has a significantly improved CPU. What a pleasant surprise! Of course, [...] [...] addition to a Mylo-esque physique and UMD-less guts, it seems that the PSP Go has a significantly improved CPU. What a pleasant surprise! Of course, [...]

]]> By: Gregor http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/02/sony-planned-umd-less-psp-all-along/comment-page-1/#comment-1048913 Gregor Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:30:18 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98662#comment-1048913 As a German customer, I'm EXTREMELY happy that Sony did not go for the Go from the start. We have extremely strict "child protection" (read: "censorship") laws here, because of which software vendors may not distribute 18+ titles over the net. Normally this isn't a problem, as I buy practically all my games from the UK, anyway - but importing software in the world of download distribution means to at the very least break the contract you made with Sony if it is possible at all. Microsoft already uses IP-blocking technology which means that you don't only need a fake account but also a VPN connection for XBox live if you live in Germany and still want to download the Map Packs for Gears of War. Go figure. Nah, if I had the Go, I would have never been able to play Chains of Olympus or Resistance: Retribution. I really prefer the UMD - especially as the first thing I do after buying a disc is to copy the ISO image to a memory stick and put the disc on my shelf as a long-term backup... As a German customer, I’m EXTREMELY happy that Sony did not go for the Go from the start. We have extremely strict “child protection” (read: “censorship”) laws here, because of which software vendors may not distribute 18+ titles over the net.

Normally this isn’t a problem, as I buy practically all my games from the UK, anyway – but importing software in the world of download distribution means to at the very least break the contract you made with Sony if it is possible at all. Microsoft already uses IP-blocking technology which means that you don’t only need a fake account but also a VPN connection for XBox live if you live in Germany and still want to download the Map Packs for Gears of War. Go figure.

Nah, if I had the Go, I would have never been able to play Chains of Olympus or Resistance: Retribution. I really prefer the UMD – especially as the first thing I do after buying a disc is to copy the ISO image to a memory stick and put the disc on my shelf as a long-term backup…

]]> By: zea http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/02/sony-planned-umd-less-psp-all-along/comment-page-1/#comment-1048901 zea Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:04:45 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98662#comment-1048901 That, and the lik-sang incident. I will always avoid sony whenever possible. http://www.lik-sang.com/ That, and the lik-sang incident. I will always avoid sony whenever possible.

http://www.lik-sang.com/

]]> By: Drone http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/02/sony-planned-umd-less-psp-all-along/comment-page-1/#comment-1048854 Drone Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:45:03 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98662#comment-1048854 Sony's products are over priced and riddled with DRM. They are DRM obsessed. After I got bit by the Sony rootkit from a legitimately purchased CD I stopped buying CD's; I stopped buying anything Sony in-fact. True story. Sony’s products are over priced and riddled with DRM. They are DRM obsessed. After I got bit by the Sony rootkit from a legitimately purchased CD I stopped buying CD’s; I stopped buying anything Sony in-fact. True story.

]]> By: thebonafortuna http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/02/sony-planned-umd-less-psp-all-along/comment-page-1/#comment-1048793 thebonafortuna Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:26:13 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=98662#comment-1048793 Why would you have laughed when it launched? Really, the only thing they should have changed from the beginning was making the thing a little thicker and adding a hard drive. The infrastructure to download games could have evolved at its own pace, because WiFi and USB were already there - so all you needed was the hard drive to put the games on. They could have just made *one* product a little thicker (or something) and been good from there. Holy s*** I'm hearing an "erase your debt" commercial on Pandora right now. Anyways, yeah, the hard drive. And people seem really stuck on that other little nub, that wouldn't have hurt either - although I'll debate till I'm red in the face that plenty of good games were made before those big nubs were part of PlayStation's controller, and therefore could have been made for the PSP. Why would you have laughed when it launched? Really, the only thing they should have changed from the beginning was making the thing a little thicker and adding a hard drive. The infrastructure to download games could have evolved at its own pace, because WiFi and USB were already there – so all you needed was the hard drive to put the games on. They could have just made *one* product a little thicker (or something) and been good from there.

Holy s*** I’m hearing an “erase your debt” commercial on Pandora right now. Anyways, yeah, the hard drive. And people seem really stuck on that other little nub, that wouldn’t have hurt either – although I’ll debate till I’m red in the face that plenty of good games were made before those big nubs were part of PlayStation’s controller, and therefore could have been made for the PSP.

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