Ready at Dawn Loving the Prospect of a PSP Sans UMD
by eXophase Mirror on Mar.03, 2009 at 10:16 pm, under Gaming, PlayStation Portable | Thread ID: 1773
While we still don’t know for sure if the next PSP, whatever Sony decides to officially name it - PSP2 or PSP-4000, will ship without a UMD drive, folks are already beginning to get excited. Folks like Ready At Dawn, the team behind God of War: Chains of Olympus. Speaking in a recent interview with Edge, company CEO Didier Malenfant mentioned they’re absolutely thrilled over the prospect of a PSP sans UMD, further noting that digital distribution is the future:
As far as what my personal wishes are, I’d love to see anything that can help distribution move quicker toward a 100 percent online model. It’s not piracy but used games that are killing us.
Interesting that Malenfant labeled used game sales as hurting the industry more so than piracy. This is often overlooked by many who are quick to place the blame entirely on piracy.
Whether the next PSP has a UMD drive or not, we’d certainly like to see more of a push towards digital distribution. Right now, it’s mostly first-party studios populating the PSOne classics library on PSN. Sony says that will change, but when?
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March 4th, 2009 at 5:38 am
What does this mean for all my previous purchases?
March 4th, 2009 at 5:51 am
same thing I'm wondering
I might actually buy this revision depending on how good it is, and if we can transfer games.
My old phat psp has seen better days, and it's battery only lasts a few minutes.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
So what exactly will the games be on, if its not on a UMD.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
There's speculation that perhaps they'll put them on some type of memorycard