You know that
UMD-to-PSP Go conversion program? Ain't gonna happen. The "good will" program that would have provided free (or at least heavily discounted) digital copies of games already purchased on UMD discs has been scrapped. A spokesman for SCEA said, "We were evaluating a UMD conversion program, but due to legal and technical reasons we will not be offering the program at this time." Adding insult to injury, the PSP Go Rewards program offering 3 free games to European UMD owners will not be offered in the US. That's the bad news. The not so bad news is that 16,000 pieces of digital content will be available for the US PSP Go launch on October 1st. These include 225 downloadable games (full PSP titles, PSN exclusives, UMD legacy titles, and Minis), 2,300 films, and 13,300 television episodes. Still, not quite the "at least 300" digital games we were expecting. So US PSP owners, still planning to "upgrade?"
Read -- UMD-to-PSP Go program scrapped
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posted Sep 28th 2009 6:16AM
This won't end well...
PSP GO FUCK YOURSELF, SONY
PSP GO AWAY FROM MY POCKETBOOK.
Forget it. I'm keeping my PSP Slim and it's ready for Gran Turismo 5 PSP and that's what I'll be using it for in the next months coming. They ought to make games downloadable for the PSP but I know that's never gonna happen.
I was evaluating the purchase of the PSP Go, but due to this news story and the outlandish price, I will not be purchasing the PSP Go at this time.
exactly. this is sony trying to destroy the second hand market, scum tactics as per usual with this company but what else do you expect from the leading member of the RIAA, MPAA.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA, FACT, Ect:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom—(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
Take your conspiracy theories elsewhere, dude
dude...SOFTWARE is WAAAY DIFFERENT than Music and Movies.....
I can't Rip a Game to my game console and play on numerous consoles like I can movies and music....
So to say that its similar to music is not true at all....
Yea, nice move Sony, especially with the Fruit dudes breathing down your portable gaming neck with endless 99c App store games. You think you would have learned a lesson from getting your asses handed to you on the cell phone (and walkman) fronts. The PSP GO will be a "no go" for many who will instead keep their wallet powder dry and wait for the PSP-4k.
The deal should have been a 1 for 1 trade-in on the UMD (trade-in the UMD, get the digital copy FOR FREE or at least heavily discounted)! Just remember, there is a $199 portable touch screen device (with a cell phone attached to boot) thats all in your ass right now and the games (some as low as FREE) ain't going away anytime soon. Its not to late to right this wrong so you don't risk loosing the portable gaming market too...
@ chris d
You may want to look up how easy the old psp was to hack and how easy it was to find unlimited amounts of content (games) for free via torrents.
@chris
actually it IS the same, he's referring to the secondhand market. There are second hand markets for movies, music and games. Digital distribution removes this market, removing any "equity" you have in your purchases.
Its reasonable for people to dislike this since you are removing value from the product, and charging roughly the same for it. With a game on a disc I can lend it to a friend (legally), sell it (legally), give it away (legally), rent it (legally) none of these things can be done with digital distribution as it stands in any situation I know about.
if you were saying "this wont end well..." because you thought people would be flaming you? lol nah, this is a classic dick move on sony's part.
"We were evaluating a UMD conversion program, but due to legal and technical reasons we will not be offering the program at this time."
I know a technically easily and legal way of MAKING those backups of all the games you already bought, and most here probably knows it or at least heard of it (By a guy called Dark Alex), Sadly, it doesn't involve the PSP Go.
Sony just crapped in the face of every single to-be PSP go upgrader (i'm not one). Sony is the asshole douche of electronics and everyone knows it.
"Sony is the asshole douche of electronics and everyone knows it."
Nope. Not really. That's the first time I hear anybody say that.
Just because they made a crappy product it doesn't mean they suck. They said times and times again, that they are not trying to replace the PSP 3000. They are just GIVING you an option. All those games will still be available to the original PSP owners.
@Archon
Upgrading your PSP? Re-buy games!
Sony says "legal and technical" and means "financial".
@soul reaper(shinigami)
clearly from the looks of it . its not supposed to target the current psp users , people who are going to get a psp for the first time may want to choose that option , heck most of my friends downloaded psp games so they're mainly on the computers anyway
no i do not own one, may buy it if the price drops
"So US PSP owners, still planning to "upgrade?""
Not a chance in hell. First of all, I'll say it plain and clear, I am a Sony fanboy. But I will not re-buy games that have 5-7 hours of content to begin with when I already paid $40 for them. Sorry, not happening, no way. As a system, the PSP is incredible, however, typical of Sony, they have found a way to ruin even the best console. Man I miss the PS2 days when Sony was king. Pompous, but still king.
Ummm it IS legal reason...think for a minute....Not ALL Publishers WANT to allow for older works to simply be copied to a digital format.....I seriously doubt money has anything to do with it....Look @ MvC2...it could not have been released on Physical format becuase Marvel wouldnt have signed off on that.....Capcom said that themselves....
"Sony is the asshole douche of electronics and everyone knows it."
Lemme think for about it.... YES.
@Chris
"ALL Publishers do NOT WANT to allow for older works to simply be copied to a digital format."
Here, fixed that for you.
E.g. lawmakers offered not once a deal to RIAA/MPAA on condition that they would split costs of media from licensing costs (broken CD/DVD -> get replacement for the price of media) but they consistently rejected that. Publishers want us pay for the content (depending on media) multiple times.
Sony is no different.
dude...SOFTWARE is WAAAY DIFFERENT than Music and Movies.....
I can't Rip a Game to my game console and play on numerous consoles like I can movies and music....
So to say that its similar to music is not true at all....
"I can't Rip a Game to my game console and play on numerous consoles like I can movies and music...."
But that is precisely what PSP Go is for: instead of UMD you can now download the games.
And Sony wants upgraders pay twice.
And if you ask RIAA/MPAA reps, no, neither you can rip music/movies. You have to buy it twice/more for different devices: CD/SACD/DVD Audio/MC/MP3.
It's all over the same story when publishers introduce new media for content distribution.
Only one way this thing could sell, two words: DARK ALEX.
PSP Go......away!!!
Worst Idea EVER
dosnt everyone just hack and mod the psp anyway?
Pretty much.
I sure did. Lufia 2 bitches.
Did any of you expect anything different from Sony? Really?
How does your comment stand knowing that a Good Will program is still up in Europe? And you don't even have to mail anything in?
About the same, considering that not everybody lives in Europe. And that "not everybody" includes the majority of Sony's customers. Which makes it, as the article aptly states, insult to injury.
Yes, actually. Sony have done a great job with the PS3, and lots of us expected them to market the new PSP as aggressively. Part of that aggressive marketing is not alienating all possible customers.
New device:
- Ugly
- Expensive
- Have to re-buy all your old games
- No ability to buy to used games
- STILL nothing better than 802.11b for downloading entire freaking games, movies and tv shows
- Proprietary connector, incompatible with everything else
Old device:
- Cheap
- Hackable
- No need to re-buy any games
- Can buy used games
- Standard mini USB connector
I can't believe Sony expects this to sell.
@Archon: Probably the only reason they still have it in Europe is because they won't let Sony get away with this bullshit.
Haha... Hahaha...
(all I have to say)
Seriously Sony is screwing up big time with this. At least with the UMD you could share it with friends. This, if you buy the game on your new 'cool' PSP Go you can't do that. If you want to sell your old games on eBay for a quick buck you can't do that.
You can, not buy this product. Power is in your hands, readers!
I really like the idea of digital downloads only on a portable or on a console for that matter but dont understand why Sony is launching this device now, just doesn't make sense.
does this thing have an OLED screen?
I dunno what the incentive is for people to upgrade, those that have it hacked with CFW already had an UMD-less PSP for a while now.
Nope.
What about just not buying a PSP Go?! The customers anyway will decide if Sony can get away with that. If they do not want there new system to be "downward compatible" it is their choice. It's a stupid one of course with those millions of iPods and iPhones around. If they continue their strange marketing policies they might even ruin their whole video game biz.
And you customers - why would you want to trade in your ordinary PSP for a device that actually has nothing new or special to offer.
Please, just make Sony bleed to death. They deserve it for more than a decade now!
Never going to, until there is a 2nd nub and FLASH enabled :j
mmm till then...
My fatty, Custom fw packing M33 ultimate pocket monster that 'Only Does Everything'-mini, will suit me just fine .
A system worse than the UMD, just, wow. Somehow the old physical-copy-we-are-the-bad-guys manage to make their digital offerings more restricted, limited, expencive, cumbersome and prone to error than physical copies. If not all, pick and mix, then send out a press release like this one.
not on my dead wallet! im not looking for upgrades on it , i just want a cheaper price
Talk about your long walks off of short cliffs.
Well I was recently wondering wether or not to buy a PSP-go or 3000 and the 'Good Will' was the only thing keeping me twords the Go.....
Well Sony, just go ahead and fuck yerself. DS's anyone?!
Sony is quickly establishing a reputation for over-promising and under-delivering. If I remember right, the PS3 was originally pitched as having 2 HDMI ports. And it was backwards compatible with PS1 and PS2 games. And Playstation Home was going to revolutionize the idea of online communities. And now, the good-will program for existing PSP users is suddenly ditched.
Whenever Sony announces the next game console, one would be wise to simply not believe them until it ships.
I agree. I was really looking forward to "Home" and I was always checking to see when it was available etc, but when I actually downloaded it, it was just like "erm...so now what...." - got bored within 5 mins!
Sony really have shot themselves in the foot here! Sure, a PSP Go may work for newcomers to the console, but anyone who had a normal PSP won't upgrade to it if they can't carry their games over.
I believe Sony did have the right idea, but they should have launched it with the PSP2, NOT another iteration of the current PSP platform.
I really do not understand the prevalent "I'm entitled to it" attitude that surrounds just about every article these days when it comes to consoles, handhelds, cell phones, laptops etc.. This is a new hand-held model, that they themselves said was not a replacement for the current version. So why exactly are they being assholes if they don't exchange all your games out for the new versions if you buy one of these? Have you ever heard of another manufacturer that has reissued all your games when you changed to a new model that didn't support them? They have NOT stopped making the PSP that uses the UMD based games. They have NOT left you with a pile of games that are now useless. I really cannot see why you are even complaining about "upgrading" to the PSP Go, when it is not an upgrade it is a parallel product for people that want a unit that is stripped down in features and size, for the tradeoff of being much more portable.
I don't think it's a problem with people feeling entitled, as much as it's Sony failing (yet again) to do what they said they would do. Sure, they didn't put anything in writing and they may not have made any "promises," but the implication was made that they would provide some type of upgrade path for existing users. Their continued pattern of misleading customers is what is most troubling and has caused me to take a wait-and-see approach with a once highly-respectable company.
People that want to actually play their old psp games in something that actually fits in their pocket are disappointed. Entitlement aside, no one wants to buy the same game twice.