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Playing your old UMDs on the Vita? Could it be true?
We’ve heard this before, Sony is “looking into” a way to have your old UMDs playable on the new console. This was the major crux for the PSPgo. But it seems like this new rumour is actually a bit more plausible. According to Andriasang, UMD owners will be able to download their UMD games on the Playstation Network for a special price. This sounds like a good compromise, because giving away copies of games for free is not something that corporations love to do, and I don’t want to pay full price for my Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker again after I bought the collector’s edition.
Honestly there are only a few games I really want to retain from my UMD days, God of War, Metal Gear, Gitaroo Man, (Maybe the Syphon Filters). I certainly don’t want to pay full price again, depending on “the special price” this might be a good deal, but as of now, it’s just a rumour!
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October 11th, 2011 on 12:48 pm
I see Gitaroo man… whoohoo!!! only if price is right. if not i’ve still got my good 3000 for the UMDS.
October 11th, 2011 on 12:53 pm
it not always the price, but the save files transfer issue that require playing the game all over again…
October 11th, 2011 on 2:36 pm
Discounts for UMD owners sounds a little unlikely to me. Sony would have to get a lot of publishers and devs to agree to that, and they’d have to find a way to verify that a customer owns a UMD.
And John Koller’s “good will program” fiasco during the PSPgo pre-launch is still fresh in my mind, I wouldn’t believe any UMD-to-Digital news or rumors until the Vita launches and I see the discounts myself. I think at best we’ll see price drops on some digital PSP games.
But even if it were true, there are still a lot of PSP games that are UMD only, so I don’t see myself ever completely abandoning my trusty PSP 3000. It’ll just be my Vita’s out of date older brother.
October 12th, 2011 on 12:23 am
I would love a UMD trade-in program of any sort; in my experience, the UMDs aren’t that good a medium, and a digital copy will work just fine.
Special price? Not quite so much. I’ve already been made to pay twice for quality titles which received the “classics” title, why should I have to pay twice for games which aren’t as good but I own? It’d have to be dirt cheap to fly with me.
It boils down to this; digital rights owners repeatedly call the purchase price of video games a licensing fee, and if that’s true then if I bought a UMD, I have a right to the digital copy; a license to the software is a license.