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WarmachineX on 01 May 2009

UmD sux. I would consider getting a psp if they got rid of it.





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agardini51 on 01 May 2009

I still think that this rumor is bunk, but who knows. It makes no sense to just abruptly change the storage medium in the handheld in the middle of its life.




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smbu2000 on 01 May 2009
greenmedic88 said:

SCE could potentially sell an external UMD drive to transfer UMD games to a PS3 HDD which would then act as a game server to upload PSP games to internal memory (like iTunes/iPod), with security/piracy issues being the most difficult problems to solve. There's no reason why such a system wouldn't allow PSP users to access their entire PSP game libraries remotely on their PS3 either.

 

Well the first problem with that is not everybody has a PS3. I have a PSP (1000) and my gf has a PSP (3000), but neither of has a PS3.

Second: What's to stop people from renting/borrowing from friends, PSP UMD games and ripping them and then just returning them. Free game right there even if they don't own it.




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MonstaMack on 01 May 2009

I'm sure Gamestop is not happy about this lol



It's just that simple.

leo-j on 01 May 2009

No game is 2 gigs, the max a PSP game can ever get to is 1.8 gigs.



 

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ctk495 on 01 May 2009

This thread gets me more hype about kh:bbs.Hopefully I´ll come this year.



greenmedic88 on 01 May 2009
smbu2000 said:
greenmedic88 said:

SCE could potentially sell an external UMD drive to transfer UMD games to a PS3 HDD which would then act as a game server to upload PSP games to internal memory (like iTunes/iPod), with security/piracy issues being the most difficult problems to solve. There's no reason why such a system wouldn't allow PSP users to access their entire PSP game libraries remotely on their PS3 either.

 

Well the first problem with that is not everybody has a PS3. I have a PSP (1000) and my gf has a PSP (3000), but neither of has a PS3.

Second: What's to stop people from renting/borrowing from friends, PSP UMD games and ripping them and then just returning them. Free game right there even if they don't own it.

There isn't any more than there is a system to keep people from distributing their PSP games purchased through PSN to multiple PSPs. It could be done (already uses a hardware authentification process), just as that same system could be circumvented, but as I already said, that's the engineering challenge.

PSP games can be bought through the PSN Store via PC/media manager today. Stored on any basic PC.

In all likelihood, SCE would just have people simply BUY their games (again) through PSN which is obviously not going to happen in most cases.

I'm half expecting SCE to do this with PS2 games distributed through PSN if they ever do full software emulation (after PS2 software retail sales have run their course which could be years).