Although Capcom is putting out fighting game Fate/Unlimited Codes as a digital download through the PlayStation Portable Store, rather than the typical release on UMD, the company is not abandoning the disc format ... yet.
"We certainly do not intend to stop supporting UMD," a spokesperson for Capcom Europe explained to MCV. "Certainly for us PSP is very important -- more so with Monster Hunter coming -- than maybe any other publisher."
With Patapon 2 and now Fate/Unlimited Codes being tested as digital downloads on the PSP, it certainly appears as if more and more companies are preparing for the transition to the oft-rumored UMD-less PSP Go!, doesn't it? As far as I'm concerned, the less gaming crap I have to carry with me on trips, the better.
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10:20 AM on 04.29.2009
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However, I really dislike the UMD format. I'm careful with my games, so damage and breaking isn't really a factor. I just think that the format is not very effective, and the discs are pretty butt ugly.
Try a title on as a DLC demo first, generate interest and see what happens, then print hard copies perhaps. If you want to battle piracy, meet your customers half way and reason with those who would pirate (like the devs of Zeno Clash recently did), give good free swag (art books, models etc, even if you have to send away for them) and we'll buy.
Another reason I don't dig this DLC angle is that, I'll no longer be able to buy/play import games like I do with GBA/DS/PSP games. Too much control for the man, will spoil the real underground fun of games. I understand them wanting to a stop piracy, but they are going about it the wrong way.
Capcom, if you guys get Capcom Classic Vol. 3 out, I'll so buy it. Bring the CPS2/3 love to my PSP. Get on it.
Loco Roco 2 was $20 and was UMD....shouldn't Patapon 2 be $18 or something?
I prefer owning the physical discs. It proves I own the software.
I also enjoy running said paid games off of memory stick for quick access, fast loading, less baggage/juggling, more battery life, etc.
Perhaps devs should more frequently implement temp storage on the memory card instead?
You don't technically own downloaded games either, they're licensed to you, non-refundable, and non-transferable in nearly all cases.
And if you think they'll be $5 for a license instead of the same high price as a physical copy, but with few if any prices drops, well...