Already own a PSP with a decent amount of titles in your collection? Looking to upgrade to a PSP Go, but aren't sure what will become of your UMDs? It's sounding like Sony is going to have a solution for you, and hopefully a free one at that.
Gizmodo set out to find out more from Sony's John Koller, and the site got a nice explanation. "We're in the midst of putting together a good will program," he says, which will be revealed "soon." Continuing, Koller says that "In the past, we've seen a 20-25% trade-up factor, and I assume that's going to be the case here."
The user experience for this program is said to be similar to Portable Copy, a free way to transfer Blu-ray movies from the PlayStation 3 to the PSP. Koller states that "users would not be ripping their UMDs" in this scenario, which leaves Gizmodo to speculate that it will be a "PSN-based digital distribution model."
No word on whether or not the offer would allow you to theoretically and legally put digital versions of your UMDs on a PSP 1000, 2000, or 3000, but that would be pretty rad of Sony to allow. Perhaps a little too rad to be realistic, though.
[Via GamesIndustry.biz]
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9:48 AM on 06.05.2009
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@Unangbangkay - With PSPs getting harder to crack with each update, do you think you'll be able to use any sort of crack on the PSP-Go! and still have access to the PSN?
But for some reason the more I look at that thing, the sexier it becomes. You know, like when your friends introduce you to a chick who really isn't all that, but she sort of grows on you until you desperately want to bang her.
(But not me.)
Have you heard of a little thing called Steam? Weekend sales often have awsome deals, and from what I hear Valve does pretty darn well out of the sales on Steam, hence they keep on doing it.
The weekend deals are awesome but theres no point buying a full priced game on Steam as its almost always sells at the RRP, and online shops usually undercut the RRP by almost a 3rd. At least thats the case in the UK.
Steam is rare in that they actually competitively price their software library.
I do not like the word "hopefully" before "free" in the first paragraph.
Also please release a white Go, I don't want silver or fingerprint black. Hell I'll go for a nice royal blue or metallic red like the GoW PSP.
...you're kidding, right? The image for this entry is OF a white PSP Go. Maybe the lighting threw you off.
(P.S. Let it be known I don't check Kotaku; it just came up on a Google.)
Shifting your media is only legal if your method of transferrance is via direct copy. Anything that rquires protected code to be bypassed is view as illegal under the DMCA.
Just because it exists doesn't mean it'll be released in the US. Case in point, current PSP's and PS3's. That's all. I realize I can import a white one if necessary but I really don't want to pay the extra fee to import it.