One American's view of Sony's all-in-one approach to the PSP

Source: Brighthand

An American Pocket PC loyalist rants about how Sony have 'lost the plot' with their PSP strategy of convergence!

[UMD] is not recordable. I am not going to pay all over for music, video, and other content I have just to get it in UMD format. The mini-disk format is just getting to the stage of usability for a lot of people and they replace it with yet another proprietary format?

I think Sony has lost its mind and if customers buy PSPs to watch videos on or buy new music or movies on, I will come back here and eat crow. But, I hope there are still some sane people in the world who remember the BetaMax and keep their pocketbooks closed and their budgets & sanity intact.

I see memory sticks running on sale big time this week to hope to pick up some quick profits from the folks shortsighted enough to buy PSPs who didn't realize they are crippled with the UMD and MS formats. These super bargain cards, even on their biggest sales of the year, are $100+ and $50+ for 1 gig and 512 MB sizes. I have a 1 gig SD card I paid $51 for last September. I saw a 512 SD card at Buy.Com this week for $19. Sorry Sony, I don't think it will fly. Maybe as a superGameboy for a few rich college kids, but never as a generally accepted device.