this sucks i have horrible download speeds and it would probably take over 3 days to download.

u dont need an active net connection to play, and who still has no fast connection to internet these days?? dial up?? computer shops costs 50 cents an hour.

as long as the code doesn't expire...



and as long as i have a large memory stick



and as long as the game is a small size :(

The PSP has slow ass wi-fi so that doesn`t help at all either, wirelessly speaking.

True, PSP has awful Wi-Fi

And MANY people still use Dial-Up, more than even I ever thought, but a firend of mine has Dial-Up, and so do many others.



Plus not everyone wants to pay £1 an hour for an internet cafe that will obviously not give you their Wi-Fi code.



Not to mention the issue of memory stick space, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that not everyone's going to be able to fit and keep a 1GB+ games on their memory stick, even if you can redownload it, that's still a long wait to download a game that size and to use so much space, Sony's not thinking this through properly, they have the ideas just not the "ideas".

That will sick for people that have PSPs and no internet or dial up.

I concur

As some of you says, when I buy a game I like to have it physically. I like to have the boxes with their little instructions books and the games, even if I play the game using it's .iso. But I was going to buy Patapon 2 and now I think I will not.

I hope you are right Viper_Bravo, and in six months or so the game will be released on UMD.



This is of course a test to see what will happend if they release the PSP2 (that with no UMD), but when someone buys a game, he or she likes to have it in his/her hands!



Maybe with the next console they could sell MS-Pro DUO sticks (or faster ones) with the game and without write permissions. If they are going to finish with UMDs, that could be an option.

That really sucks, if all game will be download like this one

time to sell my psp, so bye bye sony

I've never played a Patapon game, but I generally like to have physical evidence of my game purchases...

Still waiting for Birth by Sleep news...I need a Kingdom Hearts fix...and I don't think 385/2 Days can fill it....

Homebrew on PSN will never happen, and dont use XBLA as an example of homebrew on XB. There little coding ensnarement for "Anyone" who want to make a game is a joke.

There are a few things that don't make sense here...



First of all, why would you buy an empty box with a download code? I mean, if you had to download it anyway, why would you bother going to the store to get the box and download code when you can just buy it straight from the PS store??? Does the coexistence of a store bought download code and the PS Store make any sense at all?



Secondly, why include an empty UMD case if the download is going on a memorystick. If you want to include a case at all, include a damn pro-duo case.



Download only games isn't a bad idea, but the way they're implementing it is. For this to be successful, they need to either, A, invest in download kiosks for game stores so that people without internet connections can purchase it, B, sell the game in stores on a memorycard, this would increase the price of course. Or C, work out a deal with somewhere like Kinkos to advertise and promote it so people without internet or knowledge of how to download the game will know an option or place they can go to get it.



Just another example of Sony's enduring track record for having great ideas, but implementing them poorly or just falling short.

you don't speak for everyone. Personally, I don't care about a box or any of that, just more junk in my opinion... I like to have a manual, but that could easily be replaced with a PDF. I do agree that they should sell it on Pro DUO sticks though, its not smart to make it so that you can only download it unless they implement download kiosks.

you can still go somewhere like Kinkos or Starbucks to download it, but its definitely an inconvenience, and I'm willing to bet that there are some people that aren't techno-savy enough to do that.

all that isn't needed for me... well maybe the first one. But for me, the most important aspect will be if the price reflects the loss of the storage media. I'd happily forgo a physical disc if the game was a steal when it came to price. Its the very reason that Itunes stays in business regardless of the fact that music is easy to download nowadays. I think its a smart move to catch up with the times and combat piracy if implemented correctly. Why risk pirating a game when you could have full support for a few bucks... say $5...



However, if the price isn't dropped much, then they could mess this up for everyone, including companies trying to make the same implementation in the future.

Stop being a *****ing brit and talk like a real person god damn it. It's $ not *****ing E.

this wouldnt stop me from buying it, but it won't make me jump for joy on release date to buy it either, no point, I liked having my UMDs

You guys remember the UMD less PSP2, there trying to test it out right now on PSP as a beta type thing.



This is what PSP2 will be like basically.



This is no alternative, its just Sony's way of TESTING how it would work for PSP2.



Well it kinda is but its a test run for there prototype PSP2's.



Understand now.



Don't get angry at Sony about the new PSP2, this is how games are gonna work after its released this winter.



I already know, I've been knowing about the PSP2 for along time, while you people have been very naive with the thought. Its a fact that theres a PSP2 coming this year.

Just buy a damn 8gig memory stick and then go to Starbucks to download the game. Digital distribution is better because you can carry all of your games in one memory stick and not bother with game cases.



Another thing, when I play games on my ps3: most of the time, I choose to play a psn downloaded game over a bluray game. Why? Because I'm too damn lazy to get up, change the game and put the other game away in its case. While in my ps3, I can simply hit quit scroll to another game and hit x. Simple~

What isn't battery consuming?



There is already UMD cache added since PSP2k. Developer's can also do a lot to save battery by mastering their discs to reduce seek time and using compressed file formats to reduce read time (at the expense of CPU time to uncompress it).



A lot of games do not use the full capacity of the UMD, data can be duplicated on the disc and the game can seek to the nearest copy of it.



Lastly and most importantly, if you're reading data from any kind of media do not read it a few bytes at a time! There will be a sweet spot where you can maximise throughput, say reading in 400k blocks.



None of these are new tricks, I hope at least some developers are using them.