I stumbled across this while looking through old PSP physical releases and ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole. In 2005, Sony released a version of the movie Stealth on UMD that also had a playable, exclusive version of WipEout Pure on the same disc, complete with a Stealth-themed track and a craft based on the film’s fighter jet.
I ended up writing a little piece about what was on the UMD, why Sony was experimenting with movie/game hybrids at the time, and what survives of this very strange release today. It is a super light little read, but when it comes to PSP’s these days, there’s woefully few of those!
Hopefully some in here find it amusing :)
Edges@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
$30 to watch a movie on your PSP. I can’t believe SONY thought UMD video was going to work
PerfectDark@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’m almost ashamed to admit that I just bought Hackers (1995) for $45.00 AUD a few days ago.
Almost, but not entirely.
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phar@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
But…why?
warmaster@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
That movie is legendary! I freaking love it!
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
There was even movies on Game Boy Advance: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance_Video Which is kind of dumb, compared to UMD. And if you think about it, we watch movies on mobile devices. The first iPhone came out years later, so we wasn’t used to smartphones yet.
snooggums@piefed.world 13 hours ago
We have a lot more pixels today.