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Jack Tretton: Sony considering PSP with hard drive, internal memory |
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Following the announcement of a new PSP Entertainment Pack comes another interesting revelation into the business strategy for the PlayStation Portable. At a gathering of journalists earlier today, Jack Tretton, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, mentioned that Sony was (and is) thinking about the possibility of making a PSP with a built-in hard drive or internal memory.
According to Tretton, the chances of a new PSP with extra storage are becoming more likely, given the recently announced ability to pick up movies on your PS3 and move them to the PSP as well as the continuing drop in price of memory.
Tretton also noted that the advent of digitally distributed movies for the PSP is likely to affect the UMD movie sales, either supplementing UMD movie sales or becoming "the stake in UMD's heart." Tretton admits that "the UMD has struggled. And that's an understatement. That's been a very frustrating thing. I don't think (UMD movies) were handled very effectively."
While we're not too keen on the death of a medium, the possibility of seeing a new PSP model with more memory is certainly an intriguing prospect. Hopefully, Sony finds a way to create a market for a memory-enhanced PSP and further UMD movie sales.
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Via Kotaku
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but
not now please
make it more unlikely
thanks
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it wont come for a while, also look at NGage O_o
anyway yeeeeessssssss, die umd die
everytime an unnecessary storage device dies, an angel is born
I DO NOT APPRECIATE SONY RIPPING THEIR CUSTOMERS OFF
YES PROFITS GOOD, BUT I DONT LIKE UMD's
anyway yes HDD, i was just thinking about buying a slim, now it can be forgotten, waiting for this lol
i know its yet to be confirmed
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this is going to be aw-some forsho... jack treton,you are THE MAN.
funny dude too..and at the press conference he was the only one to make the audience laugh at will insted of m$ conference were they all paused in "wtf?" then clapped for like 2 low seconds... and tretton was also the only one to curse in the confrence lol. no holds bar for sony and tretton is doin good on the psp's future and ps3's as well.
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just keep making supported pro duo sticks.and try for stuff higher than 16 gigs.cmon now
like i said psps can hold up to 2 terabytes alredy because they use fat32s.same thing with ps3 =P
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I for one am glad that they finally admitted the mistake of the UMD.
As for the Harddrive, I hope they make the HDD removable and upgradable... I actually prefer flash memory, and with the size increases, I don't think that an HDD is really necessary... I think they should support multiple memory stick slots though... to avoid having to switch them out so often.
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e.g.
movies on read-only memstick PROduo's! (just come up w/ good encryption and your piracy problems gone)
pspboom is right. KILL UMD coz seriously, this st*pid thing is one big reason why i switched to CFW's.
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Everytime I buy their fat ass device, they slim a year later.
Thats why I going to give up on Sony. I going to sell my psp and get wii and join in the homebrew wii fun since I really don't take my psp anywhere.
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And besides, you can always trade-in your old systems and get the new one in stores like GameStop. -_-
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not reaally a phone at all. and pluse, the psp is too big currently to be a phone
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If the DVD format wasnt the prime format for movies, would that mean the PS2 should get rid of its DVD player that is used for games?
Even if the Bluray failed, would that mean games would have to stop being developed on bluray discs?
thought everyone prefered their hardcopy of their purchases, not some f*cking giant downloadable 's
what the hell?
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movies on read-only memstick PROduo's! (just come up w/ good encryption and your piracy problems gone)"
Except that read/write MS Pro Duos will STILL EXIST.
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We're already seeing the limits of DVD, even PC games are now being sold on multiple DVD9's (John Woo Presents Stranglehold and BlackSite to name a few) and games on the 360 are being sold the same way.
UMD will continue for games, even if they stop using it for films.
I do like 73N5H1's comment about supporting multiple memory sticks. SanDisk (faster than Sony's) need to make much larger capacity duo pro's. I want a 16GB or 32GB stick at an affordable price.
Alternatively, if they do make a PSP with an internal HDD then it has to be upgradeable. Probably using the small Toshiba HDD's used in iPod's. 160GB? Yes please
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they COULD release a 40 usb UMD burner, so you could use THAT to store data as an aletrnative to cards, but that would just be inviting pirates into your underwear drawer
. . . they should have put security measures on the first UMD's (read only) so that they could release a burner taht could tell the difference. not that it would matter, someone would find a way to mod it.
but yeah, just the thought, and we all knew it was coming from day 1, (seriously, its just not right.) that the UMD is dying its still kinda depressing.
. . . its like ive got this big empty hole. . .
. . . in the back of my playstation . . .
so lets all snicker in the back of our minds about the death of the UMD and its ironic name, and get on with our lives.
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its the right size for your pocket. . . its ergonomic (basically) its got buttons configured for games (about as interactive as a gadget needs to be), a big beautiful screen. . .
your just mad cause it doesnt look like a tricorder hehe.
all it needs is a touch screen, a fold out keyboard, and a translucent flexible design so you can glue it to your face and become a 4th dimensional geek. perfect gadget.
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hey baby. . . (click - boing - huzzah!)
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1. under network made and official youtube browser similiar to psptube but better obviously.
OR
2. Added functions similiar to a pda such as address book, .txt veiwer, and more.
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3. Do what some new phones are doing and incorporate ms word, ms powerpoint, and ms excel as programs.
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4. At LEAST should have given us more video format supports.
but i think they should ditch the umd and use ms pro duos for games, allowing for extremely fast load times, basically unlimited amounts of memory, and smaller and wont ever scratch or get damaged.
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