Why did Sony do this? If they made the games flash instead of

>unlimited graphics

Nigger what the fuck

>>385785245
My first PSP game was a Naruto game. I didn't know how UMD's worked, so I pried open the plastic case to get the disc inside. I promptly returned the game later after I found out I was retarded.

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>>385785459
holy shit I made the exact same mistake

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Why don't consoles use 50GB SSD cartridges?

>>385785520
Do you want average games to be priced like $120 or something?

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>>385785520
J O Y C O N B O Y Z

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>>385785648
What are you, poor?

>1970
>Sony :" Nah, we‘ll make our own superior format."
>Btfo by VHS
>2010
>Sony :" Nah we‘ll make our own superior format."
>Btfo by digital download
He never learn

>>385785648
It worked for the N64.

>>385785648
OH
MY
GOD
ITS
120 DOLLARS

WHAT ARE YOU?
POOR?

>>385785823
Blu-rays are great though.

They didn't want people to be able to pirate easily.

The plan didn't work.

>>385785829
The memory limitations on the N64 were pretty shit though, it only got 512 MB cartridges a good while into its lifecycle.

>>385785515
That Naruto was your first game?

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>>385785245

Flash was a lot more expensive back then and they probably thought doing something similar to their MiniDisc players would be a good idea at the time.

>>385786014
They were 512 Mb cartridges, not 512 MB. Bit and byte are not the same thing.

>>385785823
Sony didn't create the Blu-ray format.

>>385786179
Right, I'm not good at prefixes.

Anyway, the point is that memory was a big disadvantage of the format, especially if you compare against CD-ROM.

>not just making the disc sqare to hold more graphics

>>385786308
Yeah, the faster loading times and non-volatile memory for saves didn't really justify the low storage space and price. I really don't know what Nintendo was thinking back then.

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>>385785245
>sdcard meme

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>>385786603
That wouldn't work. The disc spins and a laser shoots at it so the graphics would be useless around the edge.

They should use these instead. Think of all the graphics that can fit.

>>385785245
UMaD?

>>385785245
Why didn't Sony make the discs square so that there was more room for graphics?

>>385786308
That's a suffix, anon.

>>385786854
That looks like it can hold lots of graphics but imagine if it had corners, that would hold so much extra graphics

>>385786994
I'm very, very bad at it.

>>385786854
Shouldn't they make the discs softer? If they were softer they could stretch more, meaning more graphics to fit in

>>385785245
better question is - why is the build quality was so shit?

>>385786994
Exactly he said he wasn't good at prefixes.

It came out during a time when flash memory was still expensive. Keep in mind that the average DS cart was 8MB-512MB, while the PSP was 900 MB for a single layer and 1.8GB for a dual layer.

Considering that the PSP was not only a higher resolution then the DS, but also was graphically in-between the PS1 and PS2 and you have a much more demanding system that needed more storage. While UMD was not very well implemented and the drives are a piece of shit that are prone to breaking, it was a OK choice at the time. Not to mention Sony was trying to make it (another) one of their media formats to put movies on.

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>>385786854
What about one of these? People tell me they make for better quality audio, surely this would be true for graphics as well?

>>385785245
This is like the people who argue that VR is a doomed idea because it didn't work in the 90s. Some sort of mental disorder that makes them think the tech we have today was somehow aways around.

>>385785885
he has a point though. blu rays has been around for over 10 years and it still hasnt taken over dvds

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why were ps1 discs black?

>>385786854
oh look, it's manly tears holding a disk

>>385787329
>blu rays has been around for over 10 years and it still hasnt taken over dvds
Only retareded japs buy DVDs

>>385787392
Mostly to curb piracy, even though it didn't work very well.

>>385787462
I'll say. I don't even remember a single game in my collection that had a black underside.

>>385787462
Most of my ps1 CD's were black and they were all pirated

>>385787392
Black holds more graphics. It's an old trade secret though so that's why we're bottlenecked graphicswise now. We need more black discs to jam more graphics on them

>>385787612
This is not funny, please stop

>>385787601
most of your ps1 CD's were pirate and they were all blacked

>>385787723
We have a Big Media shill over here, trying to curb our speculation on how to store more graphics in discs.

Stay woke y'all

>>385787392
Sonybros

>>385787212
Only if you want analogue graphics.

>>385787748
My pirated PS1 game were all blacked?

>>385787883
>slow down record RPM
>colors shift and shapes ripple on the screen

Sounds sick

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>>385787946
Yes, Snake

OK, can we finally admit that the psp wasnt that good of a system? most of its best games were watered down ps1/ps2 games (there were exceptions like killzone liberation). the only reason why people praise it to high heaven is because its piss easy to mod.

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>>385785245
For the same reason Nintendo did this. Though it was fruitless since the PSP ended up being one of the most pirated systems out there.

>>385788254
It was a portable ps1. That alone made it more worthwhile than any other.