The only time I really see the point in watching a movie on your PSP is when you are traveling. But then if you travel that much, your probably have a laptop, on which you can watch every DVD in your collection.
My biggest issue with buying UMD movies though is that I can only use them on the PSP... Thats not good enough for me.
The main reason console games are often of higher quality than PC games is because they actually have to get signed off by the console maker. When you make a GameCube game, you dont just finish the project press the disks and ship. You have to get the game approved by Nintendo. This prevents massive numbers of lousy games getting shipped (kind of like what happened with the Atari ages ago).
A unified SDK may mean more console games will be ported to the PC (and vice versa), but in general I dont think that means PC games will be of better quality.
Does anyone remember Eiji Aonuma apologizing for The Wind Waker? Well I do.
The article you linked quoted him apologizing for the triforce hunt late in the game, not the whole game itself. I agree that that part of Wind Waker was tedious, but as a whole, I felt the game was great.
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What I'd really like to do is play all my existing DVDs on my PSP. Of course that's totally impractical ... I just dont like pointless redundency.
Of course Christmas will boost sales, but I dont think that will change the fact that no one wants to watch movies on their hand-held.
The only time I really see the point in watching a movie on your PSP is when you are traveling. But then if you travel that much, your probably have a laptop, on which you can watch every DVD in your collection.
My biggest issue with buying UMD movies though is that I can only use them on the PSP... Thats not good enough for me.
Would they really care about sueing people over this if they had no intention of releasing a version specifically for x86 hardware?
The main reason console games are often of higher quality than PC games is because they actually have to get signed off by the console maker. When you make a GameCube game, you dont just finish the project press the disks and ship. You have to get the game approved by Nintendo. This prevents massive numbers of lousy games getting shipped (kind of like what happened with the Atari ages ago). A unified SDK may mean more console games will be ported to the PC (and vice versa), but in general I dont think that means PC games will be of better quality.
That movie was rated PG because at the time PG-13 did not exist. It was either PG or R.