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PSP Go UMD Game Transfer Program Plans Scrapped

by Alice O'Connor, Sep 25, 2009 7:18am PDT
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Update: North American PSP owners will not be treated to the same three free PSP Go games offer as Europe, a Sony America spokesman has told GamesIndustry.biz.

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Sony has pulled the plug on its once-planned program to grant PSP Go owners digital copies of games they own on UMD, a representative told Kotaku.

"We were evaluating a UMD conversion program," said the Sony spokesperson, "but due to legal and technical reasons we will not be offering the program at this time."

The PSP Go eschews the UMD physical format of earlier models in favour of digital downloads. The handled arrives in North America and Europe on October 1 for $250 and 249 Euros respectively, with a smaller screen but 43% lighter than the PSP-3000.

Sony announced yesterday that European PSP owners will be able to download three PSP Go games for free from a choice of seventeen including Wipeout Pure, Killzone: Liberation, SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3, LocoRoco and Patapon, but no such program has yet been confirmed for North America.


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    By: DLstrider x
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    you know whats funny, is game stores are gonna have deals where you can trade in your old psp for more store credit toward one of these..but you wont be able to play your umd on it unless you rebuy the game as a download. >.> unless they stop support the psp 1000, 2000, 3000, then this system will flop real heard. most of the people i know who have a psp are using it to play Custom Firmware on it. It just dont make any sense to go out and buy this thing if you already have a psp....(unless they let you downlaod the games you already own.) i can tell you near x-mas there will be a major price drop for this thing, or there will be not enough consumer support for this product to last long.
    Sep 25, 2009 9:07am PDT