@ Ausfalcon
It's funny how you make lists and come to such stupid conclusions.
As I said earlier, IMO UMD was value add for the PSP doubling as a multi-media device. It allowed the console to perform well amongst target audiences. This IMO is the key to determining if this was successful for Sony or not regarding their long term plans for the PSP.
The UMD movie support has IMO certainly been profitable to Sony (they get the royalties and they do the production runs), it did not take much for them to support movies in addition to games. It probably helped lowering production costs as well.
You must have been very bad at school writing summaries of people's books or research documents. I still do that a lot, maybe that's why I am so much better getting the key points from writings.
IMO this is all criticial, as for HD DVD, that was a complete and utter failure in all regards. Of course the PR was (like with regard to just about any new format, console or other commercial product) overly hyped, one-sided and positive. The HD DVD format suffered a quick sudden demise and generated huge losses for Toshiba.
That's what you read from the indirect comment, I read they wanted to set a standard for more compact discs. In other comments it was made crystal clear Sony weren't intending to rival DVD, just provide a low risk portable alternative.
