Why the Sony PSP Had To "Go"

We recently discussed the release of the PSP Go, which drew criticism for many design choices that were of dubious value to consumers. Now, Phaethon360 sends in a story about why Sony felt the need to improve upon the old PSP. "As a format, the UMD was holding the entire platform back. Few people (if anyone) bought into the UMD movie hype Sony attempted to thrust back in 2005. Very soon after that, people realized they could rip their DVDs to a memory stick with the same quality. It's ironic how, as the price of Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo dropped and size increased, PSP UMD sales decreased along with it. It doesn't take too many Howard Stringers to figure out what the problem was." Indeed, Sony was complaining of rampant PSP piracy for quite some time. They cited "legal and technical issues" for not supporting the transfer of UMD games onto the PSP Go; undoubtedly they couldn't find a way to keep pirated games from being copied.

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Hey SONY!

[chucklebutte]

Hi! I just wanted to let you in on a little secret, just might help you out some. You see I am 27 years old and a male, since the NES I have been an avid gamer, and up untill the xbox and ps2 I was also an avid pirate of video games. It started with the good ol ps1 ahh yes great system to mod (only 4 wires to solder!) I must have had nearly 200 ps1 games back then, but I also had nearly every controller, arcade stick, racing wheels, game sharks, I purchased every single Squaresoft game as well, even the shitty ones... same with the Dreamcast bought every piece of hardware I could. You see ps1 and dc were easy to mod and games were very easy to burn, but I promise you I spent more on those 2 systems hardwise than any other system Ive every owned. The replay value of ps1 and dc games are so good I could still play some ff7 or raystorm, chuu chuu rocket or bangai-o typing of the dead powerstone, etc etc
Hopefully you are starting to catch my drift here, but here is more, XBOX and PS2 nearly 1000 pirated games total for those 2 systems... and maybe Halo 1 would get an hr of play time in every 6 months? I cant even think of a decent ps2 game that could hold me down and keep me playing. Don't get me wrong those systems were beautiful with their graphics....
BUT EVERY GAME SINCE 2001 HAS SUCKED THE BIGGEST DICK THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
seriously the game genres are down to 3 you have gta clones, fps clones, and sports....
and you cant figure out why no one buys your shit or piracy is so rampant. MAKE SHIT WE WANT TO PLAY AND BUY and maybe we would not care how locked down your games were, Ive had 3 psp's sold them within a week. I bought one, modded it sold it then repeat 2x times. why?? cause the games suck and why watch a movie on a 2inch screen? I have a tv for that. stop making systems smaller or flashier if you really want to make money give us what we want. Ive seen hot looking trannys that dont make them a woman, and neither will changing the design of your crappy console, its still the same crap under the hood.
Make games with replay value, hell with any kind of value for all the matters but im sick and tired of picking up a game and cant even make it past the first 2 minutes of it.
And before any rants about me having ADD or some shit I played FF11 for 6 years 12+ hours a day, I know dedication.