Sony has made it clear that the PSP Go will not render your UMDs useless. So what will happen to them if you do upgrade to a PSP Go? Will you have to buy the digital copies of the games you already have in UMDs? John Koller appeases your worries as he address this very issue.
Says Koller:
We're in the midst of putting together a good will program. We'll be unveiling that soon [because] we actually think there's a significant group that will be upgrading from the 1000...In the past, we've seen a 20-25 trade-up factor, and I assume that's going to be the case here. We've modeled that. So we're looking at a good-will program a short term good-will program that would continue for years
afterward.
This goodwill system, further explains Koller, will essentially be similar to Portable Copy, wherein Blu-ray movies are ripped and converted from the PS3 to the PSP. However, you will not be ripping your UMDs. What will happen, actually, is that there will be a PSN-based digital distribution that you can sign up for service. At least that's what it sounds like.
And there's more. Since Koller likened it to Portable Copy - which in case you didn't know is for free - there's then a possibility that this new service for UMD owners will be free as well. We don't know for sure yet, however, if this service will be made accessible to all games across the board, or if it will be limited only to select ones.
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