UMD Sales Picking Up Steam

After what some deemed a slow start, Sony is now claiming that they've sold slightly more than 17 Million UMDs since the launch of the PSP. 9 Million of these discs have been games, with just over 8 Million UMD movies. From the article: "Current manufacturing lines are stretched to the max - Bob Hurley, with Sony DADC, says that Sony is churning out 200,000 UMDs a day and future capacity is expected to be 500,000 per day. 'Tiger Woods Golf is my personal favorite [game], but video has been surprisingly good to us,' says Hurley. In a few years Sony expect videos to be more than 60 percent of all UMD sales, with an expected 130 million UMDs being sold in 2008."

Comments

huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

You'd really think Valve would have an annoucement about this on their site somewhere...

no surprize

[Turn-X Alphonse]

UMDs seem to majorly outnumber games. You can't buy what isn't there.

I personally think we should outlaw...

[quintessent]

...these Umbrellas of Mass Destruction. They serve no additional purpose in a civilized society living under the constant shadow of nuclear annihilation.

Re:I guess there's simply no limit

[ArsonSmith]

There's even videos playing when I stand in line at the convenience store.

I know, you know what's weird though? I was once in a convenience store and the show that was playing was about someone, who looked a lot like me, shopping at a convenience store. Must have been from the 50s or 60s because it was black and white. It was quite the coincidence though.

Re:I guess there's simply no limit

[Gogo0]

The PSP screen is too big and sexy to use it as a 'shut up kids' tool.

Any parent who lets their kids even touch a PSP shouldnt own one or the other.