So, is the UMD a failure?

[MikeB]

@ pbroy

UMD as a format is a faliure.

What do you mean? Well over 100 million UMD game discs are out there. The first couple of years UMD as a movie format even rivalled game sales (the PSP's primary use!).

If you expected UMD as a movie format to take over the world and rival DVD or something like that, then I could have told you well over a decade ago that wasn't going to happen.

Maybe we disagree because we had entirely opposing expectations. You having unrealistic expections for the format.

Are you a Sony salesman or something?

No, if you had any business sense you could have gathered this from my comments. PR spokesman usually overhype things. For example proclaiming UMD movies or early PS3 games as the best thing since cut bread, I actually did the exact opposite, for example highlighting there were better options available long before UMD existed or that early PS3 games tapped very little of the console's potential technically.

This should IMO all have been obvious and I think it's sad I need to point out such things.