Seemingly solid PSP-4000 rumors give new hope for UMD fans
By Tim Stevens 
posted August 26th 2009 8:29AM
posted August 26th 2009 8:29AM
Put away black mourning clothes, PSP owners, there's life yet in them thar UMDs. When the PSP Go was announced it seemed like there was little time left for the plucky (and generally disliked) format, and indications that Sony had planned to ditch it "since the very beginning" were further nails in its apparent coffin. But now, according to a particularly reliable tipster (who accurately predicted the PS3 Slim in June, right down to the inclusion of proper buttons), there's a PSP-4000 inbound that will still sport a UMD drive. According to the tip this new machine will live along-side the Go, but little is known beyond that... other than it's apparently "nothing to actually get excited about." Tell that to the kids with the Lumines discs rattling away in the spokes of their bicycles.
I never saw the logic in a format being hugely successful on the PSP being labelled FAILED either, but I guess the download generation have spoken.
Nothing says "Universal Media Disc" like constantly worrying whether anyone will support it.
That is what "proprietary format" means. Nobody else will support it...
well I think they should sell memory cards with games on them and give people the ability to download them
@Michael,
I like your analogy.
However, Gameboy Advanced cartridges might be a better example. Nintendo put episodes of kids TV shows on them. They sold a few. Yet no one calls it a failed format.
i like the umd slot
gives me a place to store extra memory sticks and quit a nice chunk of hashish
Ha! Love it!
+1 sir.
Lumines deserves better than that! It was instrumental before pandoras battery.
It is stupid for Sony not to allow an upgrade path for their loyal PSP customers....
If they allwoed a trade-in program like Warner Brothers did with HD-DVDs for BLU-RAYs......they would make a tidy profit....
Looking at my PSP library (~ 30+ games and 10+ movies)....I would gladly buy a PSP GO and send in the manuals and pay some money if I could download them to a new PSP GO.
I am hopeful this incarnation of the PSP is more compelling a gaming tool. I think this news of a new PSP broke as a response to the iphone becoming a more capable gaming platform. PSP owners have been begging for dual analog sticks for a while, with the PS2 finally expected to die out, I'm hoping the 4000 will be a viable replacement in terms of gameplay.