UMD Bites the Big One?

[Pop Culture Portal]

Not suprising.  These things are damn expensive and seem more like a novelty item.  But, if the prices go down, I'll probably start buying them.  What say ya'll?

http://movies.yahoo.com/m...0060330/114374227500.html

[Izret101]

I never saw that one coming.
Personally i don't even buy DVDs.
I would have never bought a UMD.

Well Advent Children is a different story....

[TraderJake]

Betamax?

That's what I say

Serves them right for copying not only Warioware and Nintendogs, but also now they are going after Brain Training.
Sony 3     Original Ideas 0

[Pop Culture Portal]

Betamax?

That's what I say

[wrldstrman]

maybe its because the cost to much....most dvd s  are 9.99 to 3.99  new releases are more but they come down fast in price

[shaggy]

The prices are so damn expensive.  Besides DVD's have so much more features.  The PSP is too damn expensive, anyways.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Damn damn damn!

[AndyC]

Here in the UK the UMD's seem to be cropping up more and more latley, especially in Blockbuster. I hardly ever so them any where up until a month or so ago.
The idea of them doesn't really appeal to me however anyway.

[captain_nintendo]

I wonder what will become of all the movies that got sent back to Sony?

[Sauza12]

You know, I'm not really suprised by this.  I went to a Suncoast on Saturday that is going out of buisness (I'm pretty sure that this one will be closed by next weekend) and despite the fact that 80% of the good DVD's are gone, there was a huge amount of UMD's that looked pretty much untouched.

Add on top of that, I have several friends that buy all of the newest entertainment related technology whether it's going to be popular or not (think DVD audio) and even they won't touch these things.

[Izret101]

I think they might be worth more in the future.
They are pretty big failures now and they will probably just get shiiped back and melted down.

As was already stated think of the Betamax.
5.25 floppys still fetch a decent price too.
For some reason those are still in decent demand i guess.

[atari_wizard]

I will never buy a psp in a store, but I would gladly buy one from a thrift 10 years from now. =)
a few of my friends have a psp and they are upset that there are more movies than games. They also said that there isn't many good games for the system. This really helped my decision between the psp & NDS...... & I'm glad I went NINTENDO!

[chrisbid]

i said this would happen when the PSP was released, but everyone disagreed.  how could sony do anything wrong?

UMD makes the PSP mediocre... not just the limited movie format, but the games as well.  the load times and battery life are all tied to using optical media rather than the memory stick.  

on top of all of that, the one key advantage of optical media, price, doesnt apply to a propritary format.  

so here we are, and im sure half a dozen people will start defending the psp, perhaps one of them via viral marketing, and the whole arguments wills start all over again.