Sony is introducing two Memory Stick entertainment packs for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) system later this month.
The new capacity Entertainment Packs will feature a 2GB or 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo, and will come with a launcher DVD loaded with four movies from Sony Pictures.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Acquire, famous for games like Tenchu and Octopath Traveler, becomes KADOKAWA subsidiary. Can this mean a revival for beloved series?
I would kill to have a Way of the Samurai game with a huge budget and modern tech... The first game was one of my greatest joys on PS2 back in the day. And I really hope From Software will do something with Tenchu... I hate that they're just sitting on the IP like it doesn't even exist.
Tenchu would be superb in this day and age. Ninja and samurai games are hot right now and more is better.
Final Fantasy 7 has come back under the spotlight thanks to the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, but is it worth replaying the original?
Very much so. Graphically it's dated but the story and the gameplay haven't aged a day. It's still one of my all time favourite RPGs and for me is better than Remake in some ways.
Are we seeing the end of UMD in movie business?? Had to happen sooner or later...
LOL, Jeff Dunham is hilarious. Anyway, This is a good idea to get people who don't know how to rip their own movies to their PSP interested in the PSP download service thats coming out eventually.
Sony, here's what you do:
1. UMD is for games only henceforth.
2. Get your online game/movies/music service going. Make sure that it is accessible by PS3's online store AND on some sort of web page (i.e. like your Connect service was).
3. Allow users to navigate via their PSP's Wifi on the new Sony store I mentioned either via a hotspot, home wireless network or via a PS3 and download games/audio/movies directly to memory stick.
4. Once you buy the music/movie/game it's tied to your Playstation store account and gets put on your PS3 (if you have one) and PSP (if you have one) simultaneously, so you can sync your music, and listen to it anywhere. I would model this after iTunes/iPod.
If you don't do these soon, then iTunes and Xbox Live will continue to eat your lunch.
The writings on the wall. UMD for movies is dead. Even with the video output it's a dead, dead, dead format. Digital downloads is the future. Just make sure you don't completely cripple it with bad DRM and also use high bitrate video/audio and you're good to go.
I believe in you Sony, now don't let me down. :P
The 2GB and 4GB Memory Stick Entertainment Packs will be available for about $55 and $90 respectively.
Still way to much for it to be popular
I'd love to buy the 8 GB stick for my PSP. Between that and my 4 GB I would be MORE THAN HAPPY .. BUT ... to ask $200 CDN for the 8 GB is retarded.