Comments on: Sony: No UMD Transfers for PSP Go

By: dsi r4

dsi r4 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:12:31 +0000

Hi,
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By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:34:34 +0000

What a joke !!! All the investment I have made in my previuos PSP games, and there is no way to transfer them to the new PSP GO. Sony – you are dreaming. Why would anyone buy a PSP Go ?

By: epifano82

epifano82 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:58:14 +0000

It’s not really any different then the Ipod+Itunes and I’ve been living with that just fine for many years now, keep a backup of your data upgrade your hardware when significant or broken and restore. Things aren’t going to go backwards were only going to see more internet connected devices as time goes, and the great thing is when I want to buy a new game I can just download it straight from the net. That’s just darn convenient considering I live 45 Miles from the nearest city, at that with a limited selection of games.

By: Seumas

Seumas — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:17:13 +0000

I briefly considered finally buying a PSP (the Go), but this will dissuade me from it. It’s also the reason I won’t buy DSiWare on the Nintendo DSi. If all I’m buying is the license to play your game which can be revoked at your leisure (and it’s tied not to my account, but to my device), then what’s in it for me? What happens a decade from now when I come back to play stuff and none of it works, because the memory unit is fuzzed?

More obscurely, what happens to videogame collecting when there is no longer anything to collect, because it’s all digital?

By: Backlin

Backlin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:06:49 +0000

I have an idea. It requires an older PSP to work.

It pretty much involves plugging both the Go and the older model into USB ports on a computer. Then, the user loads up a program that has access to the UMD drive in the older model. This program makes a clone of the disk, makes it runable, attaches the PSP Go’s serial number in a random sequence designed for a security check (this is the key thing here), and puts the contents on the PSP Go’s flash memory.

There are flaws here though, as the inevitable hacked firmware for the PSP Go may omit these security checks; or a plugin or mod to the firmware may do this.

By: Richard M

Richard M — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:25:54 +0000

Epic Fail on Sony’s part. I have an original PSP – it isn’t all that but at least when I get bored with a game I can sell it on Ebay or trade it in. I can’t play my existing UMD’s on the new machine so that means having to keep it to play my old games.

But I’m a casual gamer – I play mine on the plane or in hotels when I’m away on business and need to take my mind of being away from home. I’m afraid my iPhone has taken over my PSP (only one device to carry around and I can charge it through my laptop or anything with a powered USB port).

Digital only games are a nightmare – you can’t sell them on, you run the risk of losing them if your device blows up. I can’t see Sony doing an iTunes and letting you install one game on multiple devices a la iTunes authorised computers.

And the whole reason the PSP is only such a so so games machine is basically, too many games were PS2 ports made to run on big(ish) TV’s using a proper controller. They are too complex to port over to a tiny screen with badly laid out controls. I’m no Apple fanboy, but I can’t help but think the iPhone iPod Touch really will take market share of Sony (may not Nintendo) as the games are very cheap and playable.

I’m not sure what Sony were thinking with this one………..

By: Anna Langella

Anna Langella — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:53:50 +0000

This handheld is going to fail epically. It’s more expensive. The games are more expensive. Everything about it is more expensive while at the same time, the handheld is crippled in so many ways