Sony working to get Devs to make digital versions of UMDs

During and interview with Watch Impress, Kaz Hirai said that people who have already bought the PSP will be able to download digital versions of their titles on the NGP. The only perimeter being that it is within the number of download limits outlined on the PSN.

[mrv321]

What Sony needs to go is

1. Talk to publishers
2. Say they'll do ALL the porting
3. Charge 5% if they do the port from UMD to Digital
4. ???
5. Profit

[HolyOrangeCows]

Sony really SHOULD port it themselves. I can't imagine that putting it on PSN should be that hard. Let game devs use their resources on NEW games. Hopefully we see it HAPPEN this time, unlike with the PSPGo.

"The memory card will be able to rewrite data so that users can save and download data"
I'm glad. Saving onto a separate card is sort of annoying, because you have to make sure you have enough; I just bought a 16GB for my PSP1.

[lil Titan]

i hope some games get updates to use the second analog stick on the NGP/PSP2...Kingdom Hearts maybe

[Blaze929]

"Kaz Hirai said that people who have already bought the PSP will be able to download digital versions of their titles on the NGP"

Hmm...for free? And this applies to all PSP owners with UMDs or just those who bought PSN versions?

[HappyGaming]

Would this work...

You put in UMD into PSP
Log in PSN.
PSN checks the serial number which is unique on every copy.
Than you are given the option to download the PSN version of the UMD.

Repeat for all games.

The only problem with this is that you now have 2 copies of one game but game sharing on PS3 allows up to 5 people to download one game so its not as bad.

[Joni-Ice]

@ Blaze929..... Just PSN versions. If you have the UMD version you would have to buy again to get it digitally.

[xAlmostPro]

nope @gumtrol but that actually isn't a bad idea tbh, they'd only need to create a large database(which yeah would take a few months but they have until 2012 xD

[Blaze929]

Yeah figured as much. Then I'm S.O.L. then

[ThanatosDMC]

I want that recent Yugioh game for my strategy card game needs. Wish Magic the Gathering game that's on PS3 would go to PSP too.

[ChineseDemocracy]

I was really disappointed that KH: Birth by Sleep didn't see a digital release.

I don't see developers having any problem going full out digital if they can profit. I for one would buy a handful of the newer "last-gen" PSP games for the NGP.

[sashimi]

That is because SquareEnix is stupid. They have been doing dumb stuff all gen.

[Carlos_Irwin_Estevez]

they need a umd transfer kit even if its done with monthly timed activation to prevent stealing, this needs to be a priority because dropping umd altogether is a bad bad idea for so many fans.

[Joni-Ice]

Not really. ALL PSP's takes memory card which mean if you have a older model PSP, you could just download the game you want to memory card.

[a_bro]

hopefully this time, compared to what happened with the PSP Go, they actually allow this to happen

after they talk to all publishers and get all those PSP games on the PS store, they should open up a website were:

1.you can select all the UMD games you have,

2.pay up a fee to allow your copies to be turned to Digital (it would be cool if free)

3.ship the copies to Sony with a receipt of your order inside (they need proof that you own these games)

4.receive your codes of those digital copies by mailbox, or e-mail.

amazon does this, but the opposite when you sell your used items to them. why cant sony and the these UMD games?

[mrv321]

Sony could just update the PSP to scan the disk, seeing if it's a orginal copy of the game. It's not like there's too many UMD writters out their and then you just pay $5-$10 on a 'memory' fee and bang. $5-$10 is fine by me.

EDIT: Each UMD has a SPECIFIC code I think, once that code is used then it cannot be re-used again for digital.

[a_bro]

"Sony could just update the PSP to scan the disk, seeing if it's a orginal copy of the game."

thats a gateway to piracy there then. i can just to go to a friend of mine and take his game and do that on my PSP, or some one else, and the copy will dupicate. the way i presented it, i believe is the only and best way to solve this issue.

Anyway, one publisher that they must talk to is Square Enix, i mean, wtf, why isnt Crisis Core, Valkyre Profile and other good games on there?

[Lucreto]

I would love to transfer my PSP games to the PSP2 even if they have a device registered to my PSN to rip games to the HDD.

[JoshE4Ginfo]

According to almost all the developers that presented at Sony's conference stated that they did all that they showed working on the NGP very fast an easy.

So I am guessing that the NPP is a very developer friendly device.
which means I want a lot of games ported!!!

[Raendom]

? They're not talking about PS3 porting which is what you're refering to (dungeon defenders ported in a week).

They're talking about making digital versions of existing PSP games that are on UMD. MOST games already have a digital version (GT, LBP, MGS, Monster Hunter etc) but there are SOME such as Square Enix who haven't (because they're idiots?).

This is a measure for existing PSP owners so they have even MORE incentive to buy NGP.

[JoshE4Ginfo]

oh yeah lol im tired i apologize for the mix up haha

[Stealth20k]

I am still keeping my physical media because dd is a ripoff and theres no reason to get rid of my 3000

@ below, only someone who understands the value of games and money can understand.

[Parapraxis]

You go girl.

[Kamikaze135]

At least go to Metacritic, look at the top 100 PSP games and just make sure THOSE are on PSN. Or let gamers vote for which games they want on PSN and Sony can discuss it with the developers.

[supremacy]

Just like i had suspected, but good news none the less. Does anyone know exactly how many psp games they are out there as of this date?

Must be a whole lot of games to simply convert. Hope they can pull this off somehow.

[SandWitch]

That would be awesome to play my favorite PSP games on PSP2

[blackburn5]

'Thank you uncle Sony!' *grins*

[nevin1]

"Those who already have downloadable PSP titles on their PSP system will be able to redownload them to NGP, assuming you're still within the download number limits imposed by PSN."

So if you already maxed out on PSP1 system, you cant redownload you PSP stuff onto PSP2?

Currently you can activate your account on 5 PSPs and 5 PS3s. I would think you can activate 5 PSP2s aswell.

I also hope you can have multiple accounts activated like how PS3 does.

[ceedubya9]

Yes please.

[Hozi89]

I'm going wait for a price drop on the PSP Go and buy that instead. There's so many titles I havn't gotten to play since my last psp 2000 broke.

Kindom Hearts
MGS Peace Walker
FF Dissidia
Etc...

I'll get a psp 2 when It gets it's first price drop. By then I'm sure Sony will have a great line up of 1st and 3rd party titles : )

[stuntman_mike]

lets hope they find a way of importing all our umd games to NGP that would be awesome.

[gamingisnotacrime]

not worth the trouble. they will just put Crisis Core and Kingdom Hearts on the store and be like "you want to play that on the PSP2? - Buy it" they said it last time, the legal issues are not worth the trouble

[xsymbiot]

I dont understand why phone service is non sense. Why not google voice for phone/txt. Is there any reason why this device doesnt connect to a bluetooth headset? Such an option requires no change to form factor. I find this disappointing as google voice + bluetooth = win, 3g or not as I use wifi hot spots on my droid much more than the 3g that can never seem to find a signal.