Sony: PSP2 will be a download-only!!!

[johnsobas]

KBG29 said:
Why do people insist on physical media in a handheld? Do people use their brains at all anymore? Go return a PSP game after 3 weeks and see what you get for it. Gamestop will maybe give you $10, on ebay you may get $15. Who is that hard up? Secondly, if you are only going to keep something for a month go rent it 1 time. It's about 5 dollars to rent a game at most video stores, and they have any late fees, plus that is way less than buying and selling games.

Physical media on a handheld in now is as backwards as using horses to pull your Camry. We have digital services now were you can by something under an account, and own it forever. Download it to up to 5 active devices at a time, as many times as you want.

If you loose 15 UMDS and your PSP at the airport its all gone. If your loose your PSP Go with 50 games on it, call Sony and have it deactivated, buy a new PSP and redownload all of your games.

But I don't have fast, any, enough internet/bandwidth. There are free wifi locations all over the place. If you can't drive to find a spot to download games, you won't be able to drive to buy a physical copy either.

I could go on for days about the many advantages of digital media versus physical media on a mobile device, but it would be worthless, because people have lost all common sense.

There are so many things wrong with this, PSP games are worth nothing because the PSP is so dead the games aren't selling.  They don't want your used games because they can't sell them.  Yet if you go to Japan you can get very high value for used games, because without a system of renting games buying and selling works as a form of renting.  With all digital you can't rent, you can't sell, you can't lend unless you give them your whole system, you're just gonna ask everyone to suck it up and pay $60 or not play the game.  I'm not gonna do that, and most other people aren't either.  With $60 games renting is extremely important.  I don't know what makes you think most games this gen are worth keeping for a month, most games you can do the most fun parts of the game in 1-3 days if you have a few hours a day.  Also if you don't rent a game you don't know if you want to buy it, even demos don't do the full game justice usually.