PSP™ General Discussion

[Vtec-9000]

If Sony/developers, are going to continue over charging us for digital downloads, I say screw the Psp Go, dust off my Psp 3000 & pay for a game which 1. I can physically hold. 2. shop arond for the cheapest price. 3. Trade in when im finished playing. I also want to add that seriously updating the store with the 100's off back catalogue of games that are available would be a help.

[Ragnarok-NZ]

Dont like digital copies? Dont come here and whine about it - just simply stop buying games via PSN.
There's a reason they charge the prices that they do -
1- to help pay for the development of said games.
2- do you realise you can use that 1 purchase of said game on 5 different PSPs? And how much would it cost to get 5 physical copies onto 5 different PSPs?

Now I will agree that they do need to get those "100's" of back catalogue titles onto the store, but bare in mind that Publishers and developers need to re-pay for the rights of intellectual properties, plus re-rating games from the PEGI ratings system...a lot of things have to be cleared before games can be put up on the store.
Dont get me wrong, I do want cheaper games, and believe me there's so many games I would buy if they were available on PSN.
But whining on these forums isnt going to get your point through to Sony or the developers of the games you want.
Contact them rather then waste cyberspace.

Peace.

[mont348]

+1 two for £15 UMD at play.com FTW.

[Dinlas]

Well said Ragnarok.

[mont348]

Kudos to all you guys if you want extra memory the 16GB Duo's are getting cheaper 32GB's will come down soon.

Who needs a Go long live UMD's.

[Hellblazer_1989]

I have no problem with digital downloads. They good because you don't have to carry extra discs with you, but i prefer owning hard copies. They may take up more space, but i don't have to worry about redownloading and stuff. Plus, umd's are still cheaper to get.

[joff81]

its not about moaning about Digital Downloads its moaning about  the PRICE OF DIGITAL DOWNLOADS.

All PSP consoles are able to use PSN for Digital Downloads but whats the point if you can get physical UMD media which is the same game for less money. 

Sony make the arguement that its the retailers that set the price but that is not the only reason prices are higher. Sony are taking advantage of the fact that the PSP Go can only use DD and as such are taking advantage of this and hitting PSP Go owners financially.

PSP Go owners keep trying to justify the purchase of thier shiny new flip up consoles by stating that DD is the future and the PSP Go is the only PSP console worth buying, but the truth is they are talking rubbish. all PSP consoles can use DD content as long as they have enough space on a memory card but (AND THIS IS THE BEST PART) we older PSP owners get to save money on NEW releases as the UMD versions are upto 50% cheaper.

 NFS Shift PSN £31.99 vs £14.95 on Shopto

http://www.shopto.net/page.php?page=search&platform=PSP&genre=RACING

Dirt 2 PSN £23.99 vs £11.86  on shopto

http://www.shopto.net/PSP/VIDEO%20GAMES/PSPCO23-Colin%20McRae%20DiRT%202.html

until PSN prices drop dramatically there is no need to use PSN as we can save a shed load of money over PSP Go users. long live the UMD based PSP models !!!!!! 

[mont348]

joff81 you are my best friend download future sucks

[joff81]

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mont348 wrote:
Kudos to all you guys if you want extra memory the 16GB Duo's are getting cheaper 32GB's will come down soon.

Who needs a Go long live UMD's.

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ill show you another secret its photofast micro SD to memory stick duo adaptor.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Photofast-Micro-SD-TF-to-MS-Pro-Duo-Adaptor-CR-5400-UK_W0QQitemZ280461037300QQ...

£3.28 for that and 2 of these

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_6&products_id=106551

 you can get 16GB of storage for a total of £23.26. thats over £15 cheaper than an memory stick duo.

or 2 of these to give you 32gb

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_6&products_id=106003

thats a total of £61.26. thats twice the storage space of a PSP Go and it saves you nearly £20 on the cheapest memory stick duo.

as long as you follow the instruction with the adaptor and format the card (in the adaptor) in your PSP you will be fine. once the cards are formatted they are paired together and cant be swapped out for another (like a PC Raid HDD setup)  unless you reformat the whole set up with the replacement card in.

the setup is slighlty slower to save/access then a sinlge memory stick duo (about 0.5 -1 second) but for the saving on the price its worth it.

[SilverFurore]

My digital copies have much faster loading times than UMD games and don't make terrible noises.
This makes me more than happy to spend a little more.
And I don't have any physical games to lose neither which is cool.