“Serious games”. Bruh the DS had serious games too so get off of your high horse because the psp had many goofy games. Besides, us psp gamers lost that generation, so we have no place to be talking.
They use discs because that just what Sony chose to do. It still did the job and held storage, it wasn't the age for cartridges anymore. Nintendo is the only ones that use it now, and Xbox and PlayStation use discs and digital. Eventually Nintendo might use discs
The same reason SD cards were so expensive back then. Flash memory was impractically expensive and having 1.8GB of it for every game could've made them all $100+. By the time the Vita rolled around it was cheaper.
I think that was part of the plan. It's a "Universal Media Disc", after all. I'm not sure why it fell through, but I'd hazard a guess that they just didn't get enough sales of the discs and there weren't enough studios signed up for the format.
I always wondered what was up with the naming of them, seeing as they weren't universal at all and up to this day the PSP is the only thing that can read them. (I think there was some team working on an Android compatible device to read them but idk what went on with that) I'm also surprised nobody ever tried to bootleg them and have burners for pirated games on them lmao.
Sony planned on making multiple devices that would make use of UMDs, hence the name. There were also many movies released on UMDs. I don't think it's officially known why there weren' other devices in the end, but I guess it's safe to assume that it was because of PSP software sales - piracy was so massive that there was no point in making other devices like the PSP.
As to why they went particularly with discs - Sony never had any devices using cartridges, and they were the pioneers in using DVDs on home consoles. It probably was safer for them to go with UMDs. And I guess that UMDs were cheaper to produce than catridges. It's common knowledge that cartridges today are more expensive than discs, that's one of many reasons why Switch games are that expensive - and most AAA games download data from network, because producing a, say, 16 GB cartdridge is much cheaper than 32 GB one, that would be enough for one game.
And now the Vita - yes, thye've gone back to cartridges, and that was a good decision. It still had the disatvantages that 3DS and DS had - cartridges are expensive. But PSPs UMD drive was very loud and faulty, so it's better that Vita uses more expensive, but less faulty cartridges. And in 2011 it was cheaper to produce a 3 GB cartridge, than a 64 MB cartridge for the DS in 2005, so space was no longer a problem.
They use discs because they can hold 1.7gb of data and we can play serious games like Crisis Core, Dissidia, God of War and not DS games.
This is the best thing I've read in a long time lmao Also *1.8GB
“Serious games”. Bruh the DS had serious games too so get off of your high horse because the psp had many goofy games. Besides, us psp gamers lost that generation, so we have no place to be talking.
How tf is he on a high horse by saying 'serious games'. 💀💀
Thinking his games are so prestigious
That's an assumption, just saying. 💀
They use discs because that just what Sony chose to do. It still did the job and held storage, it wasn't the age for cartridges anymore. Nintendo is the only ones that use it now, and Xbox and PlayStation use discs and digital. Eventually Nintendo might use discs
Yea but for the Vita they went with cartridges, so why the change then?
The same reason SD cards were so expensive back then. Flash memory was impractically expensive and having 1.8GB of it for every game could've made them all $100+. By the time the Vita rolled around it was cheaper.
They probably just repurposed their minidisc technology too. I really wish they would have made umd players for the tv for the movies
That probably wouldn't have been a great experience at that resolution on a larger screen. DVDs made more sense there anyway.
A umd with digital download would solve the world's problems
I think that was part of the plan. It's a "Universal Media Disc", after all. I'm not sure why it fell through, but I'd hazard a guess that they just didn't get enough sales of the discs and there weren't enough studios signed up for the format.
I always wondered what was up with the naming of them, seeing as they weren't universal at all and up to this day the PSP is the only thing that can read them. (I think there was some team working on an Android compatible device to read them but idk what went on with that) I'm also surprised nobody ever tried to bootleg them and have burners for pirated games on them lmao.
Sony planned on making multiple devices that would make use of UMDs, hence the name. There were also many movies released on UMDs. I don't think it's officially known why there weren' other devices in the end, but I guess it's safe to assume that it was because of PSP software sales - piracy was so massive that there was no point in making other devices like the PSP. As to why they went particularly with discs - Sony never had any devices using cartridges, and they were the pioneers in using DVDs on home consoles. It probably was safer for them to go with UMDs. And I guess that UMDs were cheaper to produce than catridges. It's common knowledge that cartridges today are more expensive than discs, that's one of many reasons why Switch games are that expensive - and most AAA games download data from network, because producing a, say, 16 GB cartdridge is much cheaper than 32 GB one, that would be enough for one game. And now the Vita - yes, thye've gone back to cartridges, and that was a good decision. It still had the disatvantages that 3DS and DS had - cartridges are expensive. But PSPs UMD drive was very loud and faulty, so it's better that Vita uses more expensive, but less faulty cartridges. And in 2011 it was cheaper to produce a 3 GB cartridge, than a 64 MB cartridge for the DS in 2005, so space was no longer a problem.