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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.
It was Alanis Morisette, not Natalie...
How very ironic.
No it's not
-- dnl
Again, not ironic. Just incorrect.
see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg for more detail
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I wish people didn't use the word ironic when they truly mean something akin to poetic justice. Irony is when a phrase has an opposite meaning than it's literal meaning or intended meaning.
What the author here is trying to convey is that it is cynically funny (funny to those who believe in human selfishness) that the two are correlated. Of course that does not equal causation, but now I'm just getting off topic (PS: I love the lemon graph at the top, I toss it in slide shows randomly to see if anyone is awake.)
I watched Team America in the theater twice :)
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.