More UMD movie titles
Buena Vista has entered the UMD fold, ponying up five titles. They join Lions Gate and, well, Sony. The UMD Movie List has been been updated.
After I blogged this topic on Monday, I had a chat with a former colleague and realized I had a few more things to say:
Since UMD is a proprietary format, no one is shouldering the load with Sony. There's nothing wrong with this per se for gaming media - except, as I mentioned, it drives manufacturing costs up which makes it harder to fight a price war. But UMD is bound to be cheaper to produce than Nintendo's cartridges, so it's probably OK.
But it is a big deal when it comes to video formats. When the time comes to discount movies (and you know that day is going to come rather quickly for the aforementioned reasons), Sony will be eating the losses.
You just know there's a Sony exec with his butt on the line somewhere going, "UMD is going to take off. It'll be the new iPod. Don't worry." And secretly he's huddling in a corner of his office rocking every afternoon and waking up at night with cold sweats.
Yeah, I'd hate to be that guy.
-=Gamewatcher
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