>UMD
>Stands for Universal Media Disc
>Only used on the PSP so it's not universal in the slightest
>Using fricking optical media on a handheld which has to have a disc drive with moving parts thus making it more prone to breaking and giving it a shittier battery life plus taking up lots of valuable space in the unit
What the actual frick were they THINKING with this piece of shit? Holy frick.
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was used a ton in Europe and SEA. CDs, movies, all sorts of shit.
>how do we have more space without paying a premium for flash or ssd memory
You seem to have forgotten to factor in the technology available at the time. They didn't have sizable flash memory, SD cards weren't even a standard yet.
>Prone to breaking
It was using established tech from minidisc players and those frickers were essentially nintendium tier.
Unironically the psp was the last legitimate handheld console that ever competed with Nintendo. The Vita was dead on arrival when it required AT&T access for wireless data outside of wi-fi despite being objectively superior to the 3ds in just about every metric.
This was insanely ambitious back then. Cartridges could only fit something like 64mb of data back then. UMDs could fit whole movies in them. Unfortunately Sony never improved the design.
universal media refers to the data put on the disk, moron
Nice cope snoy
no really there were movies umds, game umds, and even music ones I believe how is stating a fact a cope lmao
yes. You are coping snoy. Wake up.
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For some reason I thought it stood for Ultra Mini Disk.
I thought it stood for "Up in Muh Dick"
The UMD was very smart. A loose disk would skip and frick things up, a UMD gave you a disk with high storage capacity and it was in a housing of its own so the disk was less prone to skipping and fricking up, yes they were delicate and no they weren't cheap almost exclusively thanks to the housing, but it really was the best you could do when emperor Hirohito demands playstation 1.5 quality games on a handheld
the only thing i don't understand is why they wasted R&D time on a new disc caddy when they already had the minidisc format
Sony is phoney but UMD had soul. They were absolute mad men for actually going through with it
don't forget
>fires out discs as hihg speeds
>The family guy set
>Controversial "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein" Episode
>never aired on Network TV
I remember seeing this episode on TV and thinking nothing of it at the time. Why are Americans so afraid of upsetting israelites?
Last time the israelites got really upset they paid off Churchill
It was called Universal because it played games and movies, brainlet
You know what's worse? The UMD drive is also flimsy as hell. Mine broke after only a year, and I didn't even use it that often. Now I have to digitally play every game on the small memory card that came with it. The thing isn't even 4 gigabytes in size.
Why is the PSP such a great handheld?
They tried
Nowadays they'd just put some shovelware on it and move on.
Peak handheld idk what happened to mine I loved socom fireteam bravo
Well they were obviously thinking right considering that PSP is one of the best handhelds ever made.