The umd is killing the psp with a small storage capasity you can only half decent games look at FF7 that game would never fit on a single UMD.. With digital downloads we can have 5-10GB games offering better quality. Also with the price of MS dropping who is to say game developers won't just make them on locked memory sticks and sell them for both old psp's and new?
UMD holds 1.8GB. FF7 would fit there easily. You have no idea what you're babbling about. And most people don't have internet access fast enough to make all your 10GB (LOL!) PSP games realistic, which is why Sony is doing PSP Minis (under 100MB).
Um, UMD gives devs more space to work with than downloads would.
For starters, FF7 DOES fit one one UMD. The downloadable version takes less than 1.8 GB
Sony said downloadable games will target in between 600 and 800 MB on average, you know why? Cause the average PSP owner only has a 1 GB memory stick. And MOST developers will target that to maximize sales. While trying to leave room for more than 1 game, and movies/music/photos. People don't want to have to buy a new memory stick for each game.
So instead of being limited to 1.8 GB (and even then, there are multi-UMD games) games are now limited by the average owner's memory capacity.
And PSP2 could easily switch to Bluray-UMD for all we know, and that'd be like 7.5 GB.
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The umd is killing the psp with a small storage capasity you can only half decent games look at FF7 that game would never fit on a single UMD.. With digital downloads we can have 5-10GB games offering better quality. Also with the price of MS dropping who is to say game developers won't just make them on locked memory sticks and sell them for both old psp's and new?
UMD holds 1.8GB. FF7 would fit there easily. You have no idea what you're babbling about. And most people don't have internet access fast enough to make all your 10GB (LOL!) PSP games realistic, which is why Sony is doing PSP Minis (under 100MB).
Um, UMD gives devs more space to work with than downloads would.
For starters, FF7 DOES fit one one UMD. The downloadable version takes less than 1.8 GB
Sony said downloadable games will target in between 600 and 800 MB on average, you know why? Cause the average PSP owner only has a 1 GB memory stick. And MOST developers will target that to maximize sales. While trying to leave room for more than 1 game, and movies/music/photos. People don't want to have to buy a new memory stick for each game.
So instead of being limited to 1.8 GB (and even then, there are multi-UMD games) games are now limited by the average owner's memory capacity.
And PSP2 could easily switch to Bluray-UMD for all we know, and that'd be like 7.5 GB.