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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."
Even better. Some of us Anime nuts love japanese voices over the english ones.
What do you deem CD quality music?
Not MIDI, actually recorded audio. Although PSones MIDI was extremely good.
Current Nintendo DS game cards are up to 64 megabytes, meaning that DS games can stream compressed audio from the game card instead of using "OMG it's a MIDI file" music
I know, but dev's dont want to waste that much space or processing power on the DS. See GoldenEye's music as an example
Which did you mean? 32 kbps MP3? 64 kbps? 128 kbps?
I think Id be willing to put p with 64, but Id prefer 128. (Id actually prefer 320 but hey.)