[quote author=“IGN Staff”]
February 15, 2005 - When Sony Computer Entertainment revealed solid plans to introduce a small lineup of movies to the UMD format as early as April, one area was not addressed: price. How much can we expect to pay for movies on the miniature format?
While we still don’t know American pricing for video UMDs, Sony Pictures Entertainment has gone on record with plans for Japan. SPE representatives reveal that while the final lineup of releases has yet to be set, Japan will see its first UMD releases in April, similar to America. Pricing for Japan is expected to be in the same range as current DVDs, which the representatives state is between 3,800 yen and 3,980 yen.
DVDs tend to cost more in Japan than they do in America, so we expect far cheaper pricing for the US. However, if pricing strategies remain the same in all territories, you should expect to pay DVD prices for UMD movies in April.
Well if the idea that people would buy movies that could only be played in the PSP was bad to begin with, it just got a lot worse. Who would actually buy a movie just for their PSP, when they could get a higher quality DVD that could be played anywhere, and converted to be played on the PSP?
