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Ursus Maritimus
09/25/09

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Sounds like what they did for the PS3 but not allowing it to play PS2 games. Sony is the only company as bad as Apple for crippling and controlling their products.
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
09/25/09

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O hi thar!
Here's a bucket of FAIL!
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dougr650
09/25/09

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Clearly, there is some group of consumers out there who see the PSPGo as a "good thing" and can't wait to get their hands on it. I would just like to ask, if any such people happen to also read Gizmodo, why would you want a system that only allows games to be purchased through a single point of sale, which in this case is Sony itself, which has a well-documented history of charging the maximum price for the minimum product? If you're no longer allowed to purchase from competing businesses like Best Buy, Amazon, Wal-Mart, etc., you're always going to pay full MSRP for every single title, which is around $40 for most PSP games. Plus, you can't borrow, rent, or re-sell the games that you buy in this way.

How does this make any sense at all? Or is this just targeted at idiots with too much money who don't mind paying full price for something that they don't actually own or have any control over?
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hodayathink wants WWFRD back!
09/25/09

@dougr650: Apple.
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Noobs-R-Us
09/25/09

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Trading it would be a fair offer. If not people will have everything their firends have, the library has, their neighbors have...etc.

Also, old PSPs would still be able to play those same games if they just load it into their memory sticks.
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Monty
09/25/09

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With a little perspective, this is a big step in the right direction. Remember the RIAA did not want us to have electronic copies of music at all. Imagine how happy we would have been if we could have traded in our CD's for 64K DRM protected versions of our music. We would have been left without all of those annoying CD's. Who needs those? So eighties.

Sony is skipping to the trade-in part and allowing us to give up what we purchased for an electronic copy. Those UMD titles are so positively 2005 - who wants those? Those little discs scare away the chicks.

Thank you, Sony, for another brilliant idea that everyone will love. Really. Great to see you keeping up that amazing rep.

(But what were you thinking dropping the price of the PS3 to $300? Very unlike you. Please raise it back to $600 so we can continue with the same warm fuzzy feelings.)
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Noobs-R-Us
09/25/09

@Monty: I need CDs so I can play it on my high end stereo.

And, so I don't have to make backups. I can re-rip it into anything at anytime I want.
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Monty
09/25/09

@Monty: I know I look like a prick typing this (hopefully someday the "prick look" will be in), but I forgot to mention that what I typed above is sarcasm. It is impossible for me to be serious before noon. Genetic abnormality, I think.
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Monty
09/25/09

@Noobs-R-Us: Yes, I continue to use those annoying CD's. Imagine how we could have been saved from that fate if the RIAA had just taken them away. It makes me sad.
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Mr_Biggles:Windows 7 was my idea
09/25/09

@Monty: WHAT NO WAY you be sarcastic
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Noobs-R-Us
09/25/09

@Mr_Biggles: Your comments suck and I hate you: Sarcasm, what's that?
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weatherman
09/25/09

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Well, that does make a little sense - it would prevent a significant amount of cheating the system that way.

That said, if I spend $50 on a PSP game, I consider that to be a license to play that game regardless of hardware. And I think that being able to play it on an old PSP system as well as a new one is my right as a license holder. So if there's way to keep the disc and get a digital copy, I'll consider myself within my rights to do that.
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senatormayer
09/25/09

@weatherman: The thing is, you're not the one interpreting the licensing agreement, Sony's lawyers are. You're not buying into a contract that you and Sony have mutually agreed upon. You're buying into what they and the law makers agreed upon. Whether or not that's right is a totally different story.
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Roudi
09/25/09

@weatherman: Thing is, owning a digital copy IS a license to play the game on both the PSPgo and old PSPs. Digital PSP games work across all PSP systems; on models 1000 through 3000, they run off the memory card. Giving up the UMD is just security that you are a) not renting the game just to get the digital copy, and b) not going to trade in the UMD at Gamestop or re-sell it.
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weatherman
09/25/09

@senatormayer: well, there's some gray area of the law there in the Fair Use doctrine...
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Dethzilla
09/25/09

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And then sony will dump those UMD's back on the market at a discount and sell them for a second time... Someone at Sony needs a raise because that is... Genius!
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SQLGuru
09/25/09

@Dethzilla: So, if you want a game you don't have, you buy a used UMD. You turn it in to Sony for a digital copy. Sony puts it back on the street where someone else gets it. They turn it in to Sony for a digital copy. Sony puts it back on the street.

Either that, or that one digital copy winds up being shared across the world.

Which ever.
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ACoBildo
02/27/09

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I haven't heard anybody talk about having multiple games. If my memory is full and I want to play something else, will I have to 1) Find a WiFi connection 2) Delete one of my games 3) Wait to download another? Heaven forbid I want to do this on a plane. This is a portable system people. I'd rather carry around a few UMDs.
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bosskev
02/27/09

@ACoBildo: You make an excellent point. If Sony is to go with a downloads-only scheme, they are compelled to also include internal memory (SSD?) sufficient in size to hold a full collection of games. And then a convenient way to back it up.
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ZLevee
02/27/09

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Fix the fucking screen!
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CrispyAardvark
02/27/09

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Wonder what the format for game purchases will be? Large format Sony Memory Stick / Duo? Or more mainstream CF?
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regnez
02/27/09

@CrispyAardvark:

The format for purchasing games will likely (hopefully?) be downloads only.

But let's not kid ourselves here -- this is Sony. Whatever the next PSP uses for storage, you can bet it is going to be outdated, overpriced, and proprietary.
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bosskev
02/27/09

@CrispyAardvark: Knowing Sony? Probably yet another new, ridiculously-proprietary format that no one wants and will remain limited to Sony products before it eventually dies out (only to be replaced by yet another Sony proprietary format...)
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DMC-Man
02/27/09

@regnez: Download-only as the source for getting games will not work for the same reasons that nothing else is completely download-only.

I'm going to agree that if no UMDs, it'd have to be a memory stick or something, if not another tiny cd.
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yomachaser
02/27/09

@DMC-Man:

Apple's incredible success with the iphone/ipod touch says you're dead wrong.
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bosskev
02/27/09

@yomachaser: As much as you are right about the iPhone, I am not sure I can agree with you that a downloads-only system is a slam/dunk for the PSP. Radically different file sizes mean the two systems can't compare. demonic_pascal states the case well down below.
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discounteggroll
02/04/09

In reply to Vmedia: Like Mini UMD for Netbooks Covered in Feces, But Worse
sony had to offload their surplus of MD's somehow...
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Dr. H. F. Danger
02/04/09

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Aaaah MiniDisc, great with recording...but also a major pain in the ass.
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frigg
02/04/09

In reply to Vmedia: Like Mini UMD for Netbooks Covered in Feces, But Worse
the only way this thing could be successful is if there were some sort of user-fee tacked on whenever you bought one, in addition to the price, and every time you used it, your credit card was charged an additional user fee, and all data stored on it used some sort of DRM that required a subscription fee to allow access, and any time you looked at it, your eyeballs popped out of your head, and in order to put them back in your face you had to pay the company some sort of eyeball replacement fee. Otherwise, it's hard to imagine this thing catching on.
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MartinLeGood
02/04/09

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Ok, this idea is stupid. But there is a lot to improve on flsh drives
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frigg
02/04/09

@martinS60: No, my friend. Any drive made out of a fish is perfect.
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strider_mt2k
02/04/09

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Indeed.

Covered with feces.

Go bury it under a tree.
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