acklame said:.....
really, realize what you are whining about.
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Dr. Zoidberg said:Has anyone really thought about buying movies on UMD? I mean, who's going to buy two copies of the same movie, one on DVD and one on UMD? Not me.
It's far more likely, and I would guess that Sony knows this, that the majority of people will get a huge memory stick and DL or convert their own movies from DVD and watch them that way. I just don't see a huge market for UMD movies or music albums for that matter. People won't buy two copies of a new album/movie on different formats.
Classic game re-issues don't count as most people buying these don't own them anymore. We're talking about going into a store and buying TWO copies of the Chronicles of Riddick movie instead of just one. It's the exact same movie on both discs. Who's going to do this when there are apparently ways to avoid this built into the hardware?
Marty Chinn said:What happened to the blue screen interface? The orange looks nasty.
People are paying $20 a pop for those stupid Majesco GBA cartoons.
Price them at ten bucks or less and they'll probably go like hotcakes.
I really hope this is the case. The blue background was awesome.xsarien said:I think you can change the color, but don't hold me to that.
Well, anything other than cartoons is going to look atrocious at 15 fps.Dr. Zoidberg said:Notice there are no non-cartoon GBA videos. The PSP is not for children so these types of applications will not sell as well.
tenchir said:Wow, 15+ seconds just for Ridge Racer/Minna no Golf to start up. That doesn't sound too good, what about the loading time between maps for each game? Still no information on battery life for games, video, music though.
border said:Well, anything other than cartoons is going to look atrocious at 15 fps.
The success of UMD movies depends on the price predominantly, and how well they are marketed. Sony really should consider including Spider-Man 2 UMD for free in the "Sorry You Bought The First Version You Stupid Bitches" Edition of Spider Man 2 that is coming out next year. A lot of people would buy it, wonder what the extra disc is, then find out more about the PSP and its capabilities.
Majesco/Cartoon Network can also work the slightly older audiences as well. $5-10 for some episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force on the go....that would be nearly an impulse buy for a lot of people. Each season is like 12 episodes, so maybe a half-season per disc or something like that.
The point of the Majesco example really was just that people are buying ludicrously inferior products at insane prices....so logically, I don't think it's a huge leap to think that they might buy superior products at lower prices. How low the price goes depends on Sony's royalty structure and production costs. UMDs will die quickly if they are the same price as DVDs.
CamHostage said:It's all in memory. What's the RAM, 32MB? Fill that up (and wouldn't that be 32MB uncompressed, since it'd need to be decompressed in RAM, so you could actually compress the upload and ship over less data than that) and off you go. I don't think many racing games have to touch the disc for anything but music files once the track and game data is loaded.
:lol Yeah, that's why they use UMD's that hold over a GB of data. 32MB will not hold an entire track, the textures and models for all the cars, track, etc. The music, the code for the physics, graphics, io, and network engines.
So other than keeping a handfull of car models and the track in RAM, if the audio is managed correctly, the game would only need to load a race or load the frontend after the race, and in between, spin the drive for 3-4 seconds every 2 minutes to fetch a chunk of music.