[potatoman @ Feb 16th 2006 5:28PM]

Classic Sony. They make great hardware, then shoot themselves in the foot with propriatary formats. I have no clue how Japanese businesses function (or in Sony's case... don't function) but it seems like they need to reactive to the customers' requests. All these expensive formats with huge amounts of copy protection are slowly killing the company. A UMD compatible addon for the PS3 that could play PSP games and movies would surely give the format a much needed boost, and the ability to burn UMD's would be an AMAZING feature for consumers to take advantage of. It seems as if the fear of game pirating has forced Sony to cripple the PSP's capabilities. What they don't understand is that the majority of people won't pirate, and the added features will move many more systems.

P.S. I wonder if the reason Sony won't make UMD-R/RW discs is the fear that it will slow sales of their expensive Memory Stick Duo cards. Imagine paying a few cents for a 1.8 gb UMD-RW instead of the $150 it costs for a 2 gb memory stick. Us PSP owners can only dream...