Sony uses Patapon 2 as a Test case for digital distribution

The game Patapon 2 for the PSP will not come provisionally available on umd. Sony starts a test with the game and has confirmed that the game comes provisionally only if download on the PlayStation Network available.

Sony will test the exclusive digital distribution of PSP-game. The game Patapon 2 will not come provisionally available be on umd and in the first place only as download on the PlayStation Network from. The game can be bought as from 5 May in the PlayStation Store, thus a declaration of Sony. , however, packing of the game in the shops will lie, but instead of umd contain the cases a code with which the game of the PSN can become redownload.

Sony explained compared with Ars Technica that it only one test concerns and that the editor has provisionally faith still all in the more traditional distribution of games by means of umd. Year earlier this strike rumors the head on in which was put that Sony definitively of umd-format would descend. Dave Perry, chief creative officer at Acclaim had to own say of an employee of a developer learned that studio worked for a game that only digitally would be spread. Perry concluded that this a game for the PSP 2 had be and predicted that Sony umd-format would will say the good-bye. Sony reacted then by saying that the company is still all faith in umd and that tradesmen no care make himself farmhouses.

Sony can firstly sometimes with Pre-paid play cards for PSN-Store to come, before they start tests with this type.

Patapon are a nice game, therefore Patapon 2 seem also very the effort me.

There for quite some time rumors that go the new PSP, number 2 or an evolution of the current that then PSP 4000 will be called, no umd. This test with digital downloads the test balloon is able be still once for DD only PSP.

Perhaps a smattering insipid, but if you look at to the piracy on the PSP, then wet in any case, however, how them a game must download and on their PSP must get everyone. Moreover digital downloads are natural even if longer available for the PSP and the figures must nevertheless be enough of it encouraging this approve experimenting. More senior management has undoubtedly based himself which figures.

Large advantage is also that games which twists as from memory stick faster are than UMD. Moreover UMD want station of a psp 2000 from time to time considerable what crash to make.

I think that this nevertheless a development which we will see much more often in the future and not only at Sony.

Those downloadable content are entirely this way terrible not yet… tja, Sony which steal? Is not this way new, but find it not at all awful. If there improve their products but on become.

Because it remains, as it happens, centuries old game tradition: Improve well pinched then badly considered.