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    psp PC Store won't kill off UMD, says Sony

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    The newly-launched PlayStation Store for PC does not spell the end of the road for Sony's Universal Media Disc format, according to Darren Cairns, head of online marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.

    He told GamesIndustry.biz: "The UMD business is still good for us and our publishers. It's still a burgeoning market, and we're still selling a large number of PSPs on a weekly basis, so there are a large number of new people coming into the market."

    The potential to offer titles at a lower price point, because the costs of production and retail are cut, might seem like good news for gamers - but there are no plans to head down that path any time soon.

    "I don't think that this would give us any cause for concern over UMD, I think they sit very well together. When you talk about the more casual games, pick-up-and-play games, you would definitely want to put them through the Store rather than have disc production, in to retail, and so on."

    When asked if he felt that the Store could go on and offer a much wider selection of general entertainment media in the future - building on the current film trailers available and adding music tracks and video perhaps - he reiterated that the focus to begin with was on games.

    "The PC Store is very much targeted at getting lots of really good game content at the start for the millions of PSP users that we've got. Longer term, the PlayStation Store is predominantly for game content for day one and we're working on the plans to build that out after.

    "For us being able to deploy and push additional content, whether it's an additional overlay for a GPS or whatever, it's important going forward. But what we wanted to do was really establish the PlayStation Store on the PC, as it is already on the PS3."

    The downloads themselves currently have no defined size limit, and they will vary according to game title. As an example the Bboy full game download weighs in at around 835MB, but full titles won't necessarily include all content found on the corresponding retail UMD.

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    PC Store doesn't need to kill UMD, UMD is already dead... Stupid Sony with her stupid formats...

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    in the end umds are cheeper because of ms prices.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brunobelo View Post
    PC Store doesn't need to kill UMD, UMD is already dead... Stupid Sony with her stupid formats...
    go tell that to the CD

    and their technology helped devolved a hole ton of others including VHS and they fixed problems with the DVD making it more scratch resistant
    and not forget the top dog in the HD format war , blu-ray , out selling HD-DVD almost 2to1

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe88 View Post
    go tell that to the CD

    and their technology helped devolved a hole ton of others including VHS and they fixed problems with the DVD making it more scratch resistant
    and not forget the top dog in the HD format war , blu-ray , out selling HD-DVD almost 2to1
    Hmmm, I beg to differ. HD-DVD currently has jumped ahead, plus has a bigger following in studios as well. Let's also not forget that the porn industry supports HD-DVD as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by the_eternal_dark View Post
    Hmmm, I beg to differ. HD-DVD currently has jumped ahead, plus has a bigger following in studios as well. Let's also not forget that the porn industry supports HD-DVD as well.
    well first im gonna come out and ask have you actually done research on this or have you just made a blunt statement ... ?

    1) no HD-DVD have not yet even come close to blu-ray sales according to recent sales report and still looks like nothing else will happen besides the sales still slumping in the future

    2) no there is not a bigger following in studio, if you actually looked at the support for each format you would know this, universal studios and paramount pictures are the only big basically with HD-DVD , and everyone else sided with blu-ray, yea HD-DVD the porn industry(well actually only 7 companies the rest are undecided), who cares? , people are still buying VHS porn, HD-DVD porn being at point it is now, as well as HD-DVD format its self will not sell well at all just because theres porn
    heck the only reason why people buy DVD porn because its a universal format, where today HD-DVD is not

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    Eh, I just wished Sony fixed the PSP's UMD drive so that baby could read discs a whole lot faster. I mean, they tried with the PSP Slim, but it isn't much faster really. Loading ISO/CSO off the memory stick smokes the UMD drive, seriously. Thats why I always just backup the UMD discs I own, converted into .CSO and run 'em off my SanDisk 4GB Gaming Edition Memory Stick Pro Duo.
    :thumbup:

    But as for the UMD........ Nah, it ain't dead......... yet.

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