So, is the UMD a failure?

[Ausfalcon]

MikeB said:

@ Ends

This MikeB is really grasping for straws

Note, I didn't see a huge market for UMD movies to begin with when they started selling. I'd call that being realistic, but I was surprised how much content Sony has gotten on the format nevertheless.

That the movies in the first couple of years sold nearly as much as the games was IMO pretty amazing. More successful than I imagined, I guess it's due to Sony's industry muscle.

You guys act as if I would have exptected UMD to take over DVD or something. In fact many years ago I said there was limited potential, however IMO Sony pretty much maximized this potential.

Now things have evolved since the PSP originally launched and the PSP Go seems ideal for me (someone who only owns a slim Nintendo DS). Wow @ the content Wow, even Metal Gear Solid with Solid Snake! But I think UMD will continue to be supported for many years to come, IMO the more choice the better in this regard!

Nice soliloquy, totally unrelated to the question asked by the original poster.  You are not the one who was setting the goals for the format at introduction and during its first years, Sony did (of course).  You being successful at seeing it had a weaker potential than Sony was shooting for and telling the public is not the same as success for the media format itself.  If anything that analysis of yours of it being weaker only further highlights its failures.  So pat yourself on the back for being more enlightened than Sony, thats cool.  But that does not remove the fact that the format failed to meet the intentions of its maker and the expectations that the public and press had from those stated intentions.