Sony America scraps UMD-to-PSP Go conversion plans

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Onyxmeth said:

K_Beckman said:

Onyxmeth said:

Your second paragraph describes the happy medium between the iTouch and the PSP, known as the DS, and yes I agree that's what people want, which is why the DS is the market leader. It doesn't describe the Go at all.

 

 

How exactly do you come up with the DS? We have a device that is primarily a media player that can also play games and a device that is primarily a gaming machine that can play media and the happy medium between them is a device that has a touchscreen like the first device and plays games like the second but is severely limited in media playback?

The person I was responding to never spoke of media functionality in the paragraph I was answering. He spoke only of the gaming attributes of the Touch and Go. That is why I chimed in on the DS. However, with the DSi now having rudimentary media playback, a camera and an app store of it's own, I'd say it's in exactly the same early stages of this medium as the PSP is. Neither does media playback particularly well, and with their sloppy interfaces and lack of standard conversion programs, they're both akin to a $50 MP3 player in what you're getting as a consumer, which isn't much.

You missed the iPod and Zune as MP3 players as they both have horrid interfaces with lack of a standard conversion program. Itunes sucks and you know it. It cannot convert half the good codexs in its crappy mp3 DRM laced trash.