Sony Cancels UMD-PSP Go Convernsion Plans
Posted by Jeffrey Harris on 09.25.2009
Not happening says Sony.
Griffin McElroy of Joystiq.com reports that John Koller, Sony director of hardware marketing, who briefly mentioned reveal at E3 that the PSP Go was mulling over a "good will" pgroam," allowing UMD owners to trade in their games for digital PSP Go version. The situation has now changed. At yesterday's Tokyo Game Show, a spokesperson of SCEA reported to Kotaku that, "We are evaluation a UMD conversion program, but due to legal and tehcnical reasons will not be offering the program at this time."
This comes as a significant blow to PSP owners in the US that have a large collection of UMD titles that will be as of now unable to upgrade them to PSP Go. This is exacerabed by the European "PSP Go Rewards" initiative. The initiative granted three free games for PSP Go purchasers that register for the promotion after trading in an older PSP model. The US will not have this promotion. The SCEA spokesperson also said, "SCEA region will not offer a UMD rewards program at this time," due to the fact that the company has a "dual-platform strategy."
then wtf is the point of buying a pspgo i coudl buy a psp 3000 for cheap buy umds and if they stop makein them then buy a couple of sticks of memory and have more memory then a go
Posted By: mazzacare (Guest) on September 25, 2009 at 07:10 PM
RIP the PSP go 2009-2009
Posted By: The Rev (Guest) on September 25, 2009 at 07:14 PM
They really want this to fail.
Posted By: MM (Guest) on September 25, 2009 at 08:14 PM
I'm sure all 5 people who bought stupidly bought UMD's will be sorely disappointed.
Posted By: YAK MAN (Registered) on September 25, 2009 at 09:31 PM
This was a mistake. I really can't tell what Sony is trying to do with this. Whatever it is it doesn't seem to target the U.S. They bundle big games like dissidia and GT with the 3000 before the go launches and essentially make it a better deal. This confuses me.
Posted By: Ben Jamin' (Guest) on September 26, 2009 at 02:36 AM
I guess Nintendo can now concentrate on the iPhone as their main competition because Sony is trying to kill their own product themselves. And you all thought that the N-Gage was the worst handheld.
Posted By: Wii60 (Guest) on September 26, 2009 at 02:38 PM
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