Sony Europe Announce PSP UMD Launch Titles

Damn, was really hoping for 'Police Academy 6: City Under Siege', Mariah Carey star vehicle 'Glitter' and infamous sleeper hit 'HobGoblins' to be on this list.

Thankfully, Sony had the foresight to include 2004's masterpiece of excrement 'You've Got Served' (IMDB.com Bottom 100 #24).

What's that you say? eMule and a 2GB Memory Stick and some good compression software? What do you mean?

So.. No porn then?

*pah*

That line up is about as exciting as the one at my local indian corner shop, one or two goodies but everyone has them on DVD already.

Notice there is no RRP, that's most likely because the price of these UMDs is probably more than DVDs. If that is the case Sony, why on earth should we all bother with PSP films at all if there is no real value for money.

Get it right next time, Sony we want games not bloody films. Seems the PSP may already have got more films than games in it's launch line up. Quite sad really.

LOL. no porn because Sony sell porn distributors a license to put their stuff on UMD disk and then back stab by first taking their money and then by claiming porn is evil (or similar.

Damn and I wanted the Ron Jemery collection on UMD too....LOL.. .Just kidding.

Well based on prices on Amazon.com, UMD movies are the same price as DVD movies in the US.

Hitch (UMD Mini For PSP) List Price: $28.95
Hitch (Widescreen Edition) (2005) List Price:$28.95

Hitch being about the most recent film on the list above.

I can't see UMD movies coming out over here any more expensive than DVD movies. Especially since there isn't as much room on a UMD for special features and the like.

Oh dear, you really have to laugh at this.

The films that are being released are so terrible as to be a deterent to the purchase of a psp rather than an incentive.

I think this just goes to show that the film-on-umd gimmick is precisely that - a gimmick. Much like the psp itself. If it wasn't for Lumines, I would have eBay'd it months ago.

I wonder if Sony will be releasing new music on umd to add to the humiliation?

JohnnyWashNGo

I really like the idea of playing video on a portable console if it wasn't for several flaws:

* I wouldn't buy a PSP just for video functionality considering the lack of A-grade games.

* I would like to play my movies at home on a big screen rather than being cramped looking at the PSP screen.

* I expect most of us have massive DVD collection - who wants to rebuy their DVDs? (Excluding the Stick options).

* The UMD format doesn't sound long-lasting to me. You'll still be able to buy DVD players in 10 years time, I'm not so sure about anything that can play UMD.

Anyway, that's my take, be it with a heck of a lot of "I"s.

I completely agree Adam. I'm a huge hardcore gamer, with no expenses, and not too much I like better to spend my time and money on than video games, and I haven't even considered buying the PSP. Pretty much only Lumines interests me, and the other "great" features on the PSP are pathetic, and do nothing but drive the price of the thing up, so I don't buy it.

Fair enough if the games don't appeal, but I don't understand the issue with movies.

Like TigerUppercut said earlier; get as big a memory stick as you can afford (but no bigger than 2GB) and rip your DVDs to .mp4... saves battery life too.

fantastic! so now we have to spend another, what? £200 so we can watch movies? so add that to the price of the psp that's what? a bit too much? no. a hell of a lot of money for a pointless feature anyway.

Yeah, with a 1gb mem stick and a game a PSP would be around $450 in the states. Plus tax, which is different around the country, but still probably around $20-40...not worth it for what it does.

... and take photos, listen to music, record video. Sony's Memory Stick is compatible with plenty of their other devices.


You find portable video playback pointless? Each to their own, I guess.

Isn't Sony's memory stick only compatable with plenty of other Sony products?

I do indeed find it pointless when you have to watch it on such a tiny screen, i mean i like to watchmovies when i can get into them properly and watching 10 minutes of something on a bus doesn't really appeal to me.

Well, when your opinions differ greatly to that of your girlfriend, for 90% of films, believe me when I say I find it very useful. Especially when you have over 2 hours of commuting a day. Honestly, the PSP has actually made travelling pleasurable.


Obviously. But having acted on several glowing reviews of Sony's excellent budget-range digi cameras (£150-£250 range), I'm extremely happy with my Cyber shot DSC-L1 - with which I can store loads of high definition shots onto my useless, massive memory stick.

Some guy in a store in Chester-Le-Street tried to hoist one on me today. It's too shiny, like they coated it in gloss varnish. The screen seemed a bit low quality, and it still surprises me how big the damn thing is. Add to that the lack of games that appeal to me and, well, they have a long way to go in winning me over.

As for watching films on the go, my mobile's got as big a screen, and a little (Sony!) program on my PC zips films up nice and small so I can fit LOTR on 256mb. Smooth framerate, good image quality... keeps me going anyway. That and the Picodrive megadrive emulator on there.

Well it makes sense for me to pick up a PSP for the games only. I said from day one that the UMD thin wouldn't be enough to justify investing in the feature when DVD are so established in the mainstream, and with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray on the way they are gonna be around for years to come. So why the f**k do we want UMD films, Sony.

Concentrate on the gaming dammit Sony. Just because another wing of your business does films and music doesn't mean we want them all in one.

What's the point in spending £200 on a new 2GB Mem stick when you can buy a 20GB media player for that price.

Sorry Sony, but it's DS for me til you learn you can't charge the earth for a bit of mobile gaming, drop that price too.

Sony also have to be careful with both porn films and GTA due to grace their UMD slot. Another GTA in japan could be a bad thing right now.

I think by Xmas the hand held war will be over in Nintendo's favour once GBA Micro hits stores. DS and GBA Micro will then be hanging Sony PSP from a xmas tree while they languish in giftwrapped paper underneath.

A mobile with a screen as big as the PSP's? Which model is it, because I'm upgrading!

However Kid, not everyone has a bunch of Sony products lying around. Most of their products are decent quality, but usually over priced. Plus I have an inherent dislike for Sony because of the poor quality of pretty much everything they've done with the PS2, so I don't have too many Sony products. You can't just assume that the memory stick isn't a big deal because some people have other Sony products around.


I agree Joji, the Handheld war is definately falling into Nintendo's hands. They were ahead, and then they brought out new colors and took the lead even more. Not even to mention that most of the DS's hyped games aren't even out. By Christmas Mario Kart, Metroid: Hunters, Electroplankton, Advanced Wars, and Nintendo's sales giant Nintendogs will all be out. What does the PSP have coming out? Death Jr. is getting some hype, but I doubt it will save the PSP. Maybe, maybe the PSP GTA will. We'll see.