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The UMD and PSP Getting Off The Ground
1up is running a piece examining Hollywood's relationship with Sony's UMD format. From the article: "Two UMD movies sold 100,000 units within two months. By contrast, one of the earliest DVD releases, Air Force One, took nine to achieve the same goal. DVD and ticket sales are on the decline, Hollywood needs a new source of revenue while they pick up the pieces, and PSP's handheld UMD format is turning into the glowing solution." Relatedly, Next Generation is running an article taking a look at the increasing quality of original games coming out for Sony's handheld. From the article: "After an embarrassingly slow start, the PSP has begun to find its niche with developers; likewise, Sony's internal studios and publishing division have gotten really adventuresome lately, with big and little games, both in tested genres and genres those games serve to test."
I think a pet button would have been more appropriate given the way you worded that
Yes, a few of these games are sequels or have related series.
And a lot of the DS games aren't
A lot of the PSP games aren't either
PS1 games through a Walkman-shaped accessory analogous to a GameCube Game Boy Player perhaps?
Done before, its called a PSone
Probably because a link port would have taken up extra space on the console that is otherwise used for the real headphone jack, and because they wanted to prevent people from using flash card kits based on a GBA link cable.
Then support multiplayer wirelessly.Developers may also like the fact they can throw 1.8G on a PSP disc
How long does it take a UMD drive to read 1800 MB of data?
Dumbest comment ever. Some PS2 games are 9 gigabytes, how long does it take a PS2 to load all that? A system doesnt ever have to load the entire game in one sitting. Its broken up into seperate levels, seperate voice sampels for example. MGS4 isnt going to play through the 3 hours of audio back to back
No it didn't.
Funny, I had one in march. Many had it in december of last year. That counts as it being out, you may not have been able to get one BUT it was still out.
Portable DVD players have had price rollbacks. Has the PSP?
Yes, Ive been finding them for cheaper than what I paid for in march
Then he'd have bought a DS already and this wouldnt be an issue.
how can you prevent a 1.5 PSP from becoming a 1.51 or later PSP if all future titles force a firmware upgrade?
This'll do nicely
Bigger means more stuck pixels
Bigger screen also means harder to notice those smaller dead pixels.