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The real problem isn't that it's proprietary, but that once digital takes over, the system will be ditched in a similar way the PSPGo ditched the UMD leaving thousands if not MILLIONS of angry owners of UMD cartridges. In my projection of approximately 5 years (or maybe a bit longer) Sony will have a congregation of angry UMD AND Flash -based media cartridge owners wanting to convert their games to digital. Have they learnt nothing from the whole X10 update debacle?
I remember, I was reading an article a while back, about how Sony were just building things and throwing them onto the market without much thought and seeing which ones would catch on, in the process eroding company focus and brand value. This seems similar, just making a short term solution to a problem that will come back to bite in the future.
Using the proprietary card does have its benefits though, instead of using regular memory cards, game piracy is less likely and harder to do. However I wish they just stuck with download only, despite the slow internet connection of some users, it would save problems in the future.
My sentiments exactly. I thought exactly the same thing when I thought of the news. But they're in a difficult situation, because if they don't make this new flash media system, then people are going to get angry from slow downloads if their internet is slow. But this system will make people angry in the future. I guess they're just pushing away the problem
ReplyDeletepostponing the problem i mean
ReplyDeleteI thought that they were going to give the option of physical AND d/l?
ReplyDeleteSo if you are worried about the future, buy the d/l
If you see the cartridge on sale... buy that.
sounds fine to me. no?
that's actually a very valid point.
ReplyDeleteBut my contention is that some people don't consider the future, but just simply buy what's in front of them. But if Sony don't give consumers the option then none will buy physical media and therefore no problems in future.
And if they really needed a hard format, UMD would have been a worthy format so it would cater for those who already have a collection of now worthless UMD's. Though UMD's would have inevitably made the device larger, which is not desirable.
I guess the capacity of UMD is not enough to store a lot of PS3 quality games on one disc. And if they really want a physical format, flash memory has advantages in that the slot is cheaper than a UMD drive (I presume), and it can be produced in larger and larger capacities as time goes on, so really large games will fit on a single cartridge.
ReplyDeleteAlso, save data or downloaded extra levels can be saved on the cartridge if they make part of it write capable.
Of course I agree with you that d/l onlu would be preferable, i just am trying to understand the positives that sony are considering.
That's also a very good point, i forgot to consider that, also flash memory is generally considered to be more reliable and faster than a physical spinning disk.
ReplyDeleteI guess the whole new hard format is fine as long as they don't decide to ditch it in the near future without a means of allowing users to convert the hard format to digital.
That's right, UMDs are probably slower and more fragile, and a spinning drive uses more battery.
ReplyDeleteIt would be great if the games you buy are registered on the new Ultraviolet system, so you can have the hard copy and also download it if you want, maybe to a future device registered as your own.
http://www.uvvu.com/
Or if when you load a game from the new flash based medium it registers that you own it on PSN and you can then download it separately if you want to. It could then write a secure file to the flash cart to say which account it is registered to, so if you sell it second hand then the new owner re-registers it and your right to d/l it goes.
Oh wow I didn't even know about this whole Ultraviolet system until now that you showed me it. Thanks for that.
ReplyDeleteYes that would be great, so like once you buy the game it's like you're buying a license for the game allowing you to obtain in hard or digital format at no extra cost.
Yeah that's the idea. Wishful thinking though, I fear.. :)
ReplyDeleteyes indeed haha, perhaps we should propose the idea to Sony :)
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ReplyDeletei really dont care about the umd thing or the new flash based cartridges it will get hacked it might take long but nothing is perfect and when that happens i will load all of my umd and flash based games into the internal memory just like what they did with the psp go 3.35pro hen hack hahahah
ReplyDeleteI actually enjoyed reading through this posting. Many thanks.
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