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UMD Sales Picking Up Steam

Posted by Zonk on from the chug-chug-chug dept.

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."

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  1. Already got porn, thank you very much by tepples · · Score: 2, Informative

    wildly optimistic. or they're going to bring out some porno umd's.

    Already got those, arigatou gozaimasu.

  2. Double cross by Apreche · · Score: 3, Informative

    SONY comes out and markets the PSP as to compete with the DS. The DS basically won with Nintendogs and Advance Wars. With Mario Kart on the horizon hope is lost.

    But wait, what's this? By selling UMDs they switched markets! PSP vs. video iPod, stay tuned.

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  3. Re:Slightly off-topic, but still relevant by RogueyWon · · Score: 2, Informative

    FUD...

    Seriously, why does slashdot tolerate so much FUD regarding the PSP? Is it seriously so threatening to have a decent competitor to Nintendo on the handheld market?

    My daily round-trip commute, until fairly recently, was just over 3 hours. When the trains were broken, which in this country is a pretty regular occurence, I could spend up to 5, even 6 hours a day on the train. Not once, in all this time, did I get so much as a low battery warning from my PSP, whether I'd been watching stuff from the memory stick, from a UMD movie disk, or playing a game. The *only* game I have in which loading times are even noticable to any significant extent is Untold Legends, which is an RPG and a fairly heavyweight undertaking for any handheld. Lumines, Wipeout, Ridge-Racer, Metal Gear Acid, Mercury and Death Jr. all have very, very quick loading times, with several minutes play at the very least between each load.