I've always felt that optical media is not the best format for a portable. There are many reasons. Durability, battery life, reliability, portability, size.

Ouch. That's one of the reasons I boycott anything that only takes MS. I'm glad SE cell phones will come with SD in the future.

What is it with you and Rolf? You a Rolf Harris fan or something ;)

(yes, it should be ROFL - and all caps to be corect :>)

This shows the sort of issue overly large games cause. The Wii has 512MB of internal RAM, and I have about 20(?) games on it - and about 1/4 the overall memory still free.

Give me 4-8GB, and I'd be happy as punch.

UMD has been all but abandoned by Sony, they're slowly cutting off media support for it and its doubtful we'll see it used on the PSP2.

How has UMD failed? Isn't UMD only for the PSP? Ayways, I like UMD. Seems to be good tech to me.

I agree about the moving parts. There shouldn't be any motors in portables. It kills the battery.

I don't agree with going to a total move to digital downloads. That will further limit some of their customers from purchasing the PSP. Not everyone has internet or the ability to download quickly. I would hope that Sony has already learned that it's not in their favor to make a product for a specific group.

If anyone in the video game industry knows a thing about wasting time and money, it's Dave Perry. Really, no one in their right mind should be listening to his bullshit. It's a fucking miracle he still has a job.

Really, if you get rid of the UMD then you have to distribute your games exclusively by download. Who thinks that's going to work for handhelds in this day and age? Any suckers around?

The handheld world does not opperate like Perry's little fantasy world. Most of the people buying games for their handheld system are, guess what, going to stores to buy the things! Yeah, they aren't exactly lining up to download games for their handhelds. Hell, evidence suggests that console gamers aren't either* and it's WAY easier for them to do that.  Unless he's suggesting that Sony gives their games away for free, and he's not, his belief that downloaded content is the way for the PSP to go is asinine to the Nth degree.

Really, I understand that developers want the cheapest medium possible.  And the one that the developers don't actually have to produce is by far the cheapest.  It sure is in HIS best interest to reduce the costs of deliving content by as much as possible.  But the fact of the matter is that the market isn't ready to go that direction yet, even if David Perry's wallet is.

Limiting sales to people with internet access is suicide for Sony.  And if he thinks it's a great marketing idea, there isn't really anything to stop him from moving in that direction.  Except, of course, for the fact that he doesn't get a pay check unless he can abuse Sony's platform.  If he really beleived digital content was the future he'd stick to it whole heartedly, but his future is just where ever he gets the biggest check from.  And for as long as human beings do not have internet access available for free across every inch of the globe, then the biggest source of money is going to be derived from a physically transmitted good.

The man is a moron, his opinion is worth less than shit, and if this topic exists for anything but laughing at the man it's a failure.  Really, he doesn't know anything other than how much money he earns at the end of the day, and none of us in the real world gain a damn thing by giving his greed the respect of a real idea or opinion.

 *Note: Or, at least, not in numbers larger than the people who still want their piece of plastic and tin foil and the plastic box and paper book that comes with it.

 Since I have a hard time believing you'd think anything sony does is bad technology I'm not sure how valid your brief opinion on the matter is. UMD, like Blu-Ray was a format Sony had ambition to use as a media format outside the PSP as a convenient portable DVDlike format. However as UMD movie sales stagnated movie Companies one by one began dropping support of the format and in time Sony themselves had no choice to cut support down to basically nothing. Their new president has even made comments that it was a lost cause and foolish idea to charge more for a format that did less than DVD.