If Sony were thinking they could kill off the UMD but supply games on read only memory sticks. Sony own the memory stick format and they could be mass produced quite cheaply. Plus they could be supported in existing PSP's including the "PSP Blow". Or are cartridge type games covered by a Mario patent?

That problem could have been addressed if Sony listen to reason. Case in point the PSP 3000. The technology of the PSP Go already existed for a few years, but wasn't implemented on the models because Sony loves to sell you the same thing with tech they could have easily put on the previews model. They could have made the PSP 3000 like a PSP Go, with internal flash memory (much higher than 16gb, that's just not enough when some games are 1.6gb in memory in ISO format). They could have perfected the way UMD drives read, so there was less sound and less power consumption. They could have started to put games out in Memory sticks, with the opportunity of making the games bigger and with better graphics, and then save data goes inside the flash memory of the PSP. Blue tooth, more processing speed, better wifi, mic etc. All that could have been put on the PSP 3000, hell on the PSP 2000 even. But no. Sony loves to put out a new PSP version every year because it knows people will buy, even though is the SAME THING with a few add ons that could have been added earlier. Hence why we are having this discussion.

What they need to do if it is even possible is to sell DVD's/CD's containing encrypted PSP Games where you just buy and then take home and transfer onto PSP with some kind of sony software.. That way consumers don't have to download.

Why not just put all the games onto a memory stick produo... and just put, like, 1gb on flash memory or something so you can save the game and then through media go, be able to out-put the data or send it via Ad-Hoc. Also, if they did use just memory sticks and download and NO UMD, then the games could be bigger than the 1.8gb a UMD can hold... simple really... its not too hard to put a game onto a memory stick!

over here in the UK there are loads of people who dont have wifi and have psp's this means they cant connect their psp to the internet to download anything. they would have to use a computer to download things but the thing is there are lots of kids like 5 years old who own psp's and dont have wifi and dont know how to download games and transfer them to the psp using a computer. so if there are kids who want a cool sliding psp go and they dont hae wifi then they will get a surprise when their umds dont fit and they cant get games from anywhere.

Why Sony would have even made the psp GO if they didn't plan on sticking with digital distribution from now on. I mean they burned every single customer that already owned a psp by making our old umd games useless on the handheld so why would you then make a system after that with both? It seems to me if they were going to use that strategy they should have done it the other way around. Put out the psp that has a umd drive and digital distribution first, then the next iteration would be only digital. All I know is that I am not going to be buying another psp until they give it a better processor and a second analog stick. Until then I am sticking with my good old 1000.

What would work is a memory stick that has two types of memory. A ROM area for the game code, and a RAM area for save-games and DLC. If Sony was thinking, that is...

Just because the Go is available doesn't mean the 3000's are off the shelf. While, yes, the Go is Digital Distribution only, the 3000 isn't UMD only. With a fat enough (or multiple) memory sticks the 3000 can also reasonably utilize Digital Distribution. That said, I still prefer UMDs for my 3000 most of the time. (I did down load some games because I'm going to be spending over 30 hours straight going through various airports next week. I'll have a couple of my UMDs, but the downloaded games will be much kinder to my battery so I'll have to camp next to a power outlet less often.)

I guess sales for the PSP GO wasnt what Sony thought it was going be and now we need our loyal and faithful customers that owns our UMD games back so they can buy our new handheld PSP 4000 that has maybe a larger screen or its very thin......oh boo hoo thats what they get when they think everyone has access to a wifi or wireless internet to download their content in the PSN store......I think its kinda funny...HA HA HA!!! PSP 2000 model was their best product hands down!!!!!

I honestly don't see a Blu ray UMD anytime soon, but it still sounds cool :)

The problem with that is we have a very thorough understanding of how to rip CD and DVD images and copy them onto new CD/DVD's. And if sony was to encrypt them in the same way that they encrypt PS1/PS2 games, then you would need a special device to read and decrypt them for transfer onto the psp.

Hence the reason why they R dishing out new PSP iterations so frequently, not because they know you will buy it. The reason for remodels of previous sony consoles are different to that of the psp. Like how every PSP model has a different hardware feature better than a previous to stop PSP hackers giving leeway to piracy Sony just as much as every other company absolutely hates piracy but cannot stop piracy even if they died a martyr.



My opinion based on some facts tell me th@ Sony came up with the idea to make the PSP go from the fact that piracy went ridiculous since about the end of 2OO5 and remember that survey they sent out last year?, they wanted to see if game sales would take off if ppl rather digital gaming formats than UMD since they heard ppl *****ing about how the UMD format fails. It was also a suitable idea for them b/c they thought that pirates liked it digital and thought they would buy the games if they were on psn. Wrong!!! They like their games free and straight from home.



So though Sony set a new standard in VG distribution with the PSP go, they are gonna have to w8 nd see how it takes off. They are jumping too quick to a psp 4000. They need to stop at GO and move to a PSP2 b4 they screw themselves over.

Word has it that the next gen PSP will be coming out next year and features a PowerVR SGX543 graphics card.



Source: http://brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/10/16/exclusive-sony-psp2-arriving-in-20102c-features-powervr-sgx543-graphics.aspx