UMDs Bite the Dust

[ShadowMarth]

Yep, Reuters is predicting that Sony's UMD format, its novelty quickly worn, is going the way of so many other failed media formats. Apparently UMD sales have plummeted as of late, and Universal Studios has pulled support altogether. Thank god for common sense. It prevailed... even after a year of insanity.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/news...archived=False

[Neumie]

it was bound to happen once people realised they could put there dvds onto a memory stick and play it from that. sony didnt really think that one through. i wouldnt be surprised if they try to stop movie viewing from cards in a future firmware update.

[alex]

its not just universal "Paramount Pictures have "completely stopped""

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/news/s...6146881&page=0

[ShadowMarth]

Walmart stopped carrying. Yep, it's going down.

[Lkr]

this is old, but sweet.

[Sepharite]

It was pretty obvious from day one that it was a failure.
And come on... "Universal" -- it only works on a PSP? .... >.> More like PWnD.

Poor sony.

[ShadowMarth]

Yeah, but people were buying it in mass anyway.

[bignds]

I assumed this would of happened before the consoles launch, but then umd sales were really high, doing well, this comes as a bit of a shock to me.

[zimma]

here the umd movies seem to be selling ok but then again there is like 3x the ammount of movies as games...

[ShadowMarth]

This news excites me. After all, without UMDs the PSP has... a lackluster lineup of games (with a couple decent ones only), and a web browser.