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Originally Posted by James

Crap, I always forget about those things. You're right, too many people do think those ridiculous cartoon cartriges are worthwhile. I'll never understand why but they do sell, so UMD can probably be a viable niche market as well.

James

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I'd buy them on UMD if they were cartoons like The Simpsons or Aqua Teen Hunger Force and contained a whole season's worth of episodes.

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Originally Posted by Finch

You're WRONG! There's Kenshui Tendo Dokuta and Band Brothers. Neither of which are available in anything besides Japanese. Hey, we can at least pretend there was no such thing as Bejeweled.


For the record, Feel the Magic sucks hard.

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Wierd, triple post. Guess you really wanted to add some emphasis.

Anyways, I should've clarified that I was mostly speaking on the subject of original domestic titles. I am sure there's a cornucopia of stuff in Japan, but not everyone is going to sort through what's available and go on an importing spree.

And I never said Feel the Magic was godly or a "killer app"; it's pretty obvious that the game is a one-thrill experience once you've completed the game. This argument about "oh it's boring" coming from you and Joust in particular came out of nowhere. It doesn't really have any direct relevance to my original statement in response James' comment -- who insisted that games like Yoshi: Touch & Go and the forthcoming Castlevania are supposedly "original" titles and should be associated in the group as PSP launch titles said to be retreads of their respective console counterparts.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

Uhh... something seems odd about Finch's last post. Partially because I don't think I've EVER seem him cuss. *heh*

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XD (can't stop laughing) I don't know what happened with the tripple post. I was wondering why it wasn't going through. Notice how i changed the post slightly.

Feel the Magic just hurt me, bad, so ya' hafta understand the anger. I had so much hope for it and it just spit in my face. It wasn't even fun the first time through. It had awesome presentation but the game play itself wasn't fun at all. Well... not that bad, but it still makes me mad. Freakin' Feel the Magic. The whole thing was kind of obnoxious. God. That freakin'... Geez. Not even a one-thrill wonder. The only reason i kept going was so that it would go away. It didn't even stop hurting me when i took it back. The memory hurts.


Well, i really like Zoo Keeper, love it even, but it's a complete rip off of Bejeweled, so it's not at all original. I like the animals better than the rocks, tho. Even the music, which seems to piss a lot of people off, is kind of relaxing to me. That's right manager. I am a failure.

Well, I think Yoshi:TaG is quite original in that it'd be in the top 5% of original videogames. The difference between Castlevania DS and what James was calling 'retreads' is that it'll still be worthwhile in that it's a new adventure. You can't say that about Twisted Metal, THRemix, whatever. Even as a highly derivative sequel it'd still be much more fresh.

For those who were doubting people spending $250 or so on a PSP vs. a DS as a gift, consider that last year's "hot gift" was the iPod, which were more than that.

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Originally Posted by EvilMog007

I guess I really dont blame some retailers for trying to force other shit with hardware purchases. There is almost NO money at all to be made for a retail store when they sell a console. The cost is so damn high. Why do you think EVERY store has the same prices on Xboxs and PS2s and such but the games are always going on sale. Its shitty they do this yes but I really don't blame them. In fact right now at my store our company is ALWAYS sending us emails to still bundle all hardware. I dont do it I just try my best to sell some other shit with it. And if all they want is the console so be it. But it is pretty retarded when thats all they buy.

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Doesn't the PSP bundle also include Spiderman 2 on UMD? That's what I read in the Hardcore Gamer preview anyways.

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I was really stupid to see people buy PS2 only at launch with nothing else. Hell, some people said they would just buy PS1 games for now....WTF!

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Considering that the PS2 launch lineup was pretty weak, I can see why they chose to do so. It was a DVD player, that could also play games. I don't see why they couldn't just rent the games and then decide to buy a title, if it was good enough to do so.

Swift, if the PSP UMDs can only hold a couple of hours worth of material for a movie, what makes you think they'll be able to fit a whole season of a TV show like the Simpsons on one of them? Now they could do multiple UMDs for it, but I can't see that being profitable, at least at the start.

It's definitely something they should try out. I can't see the logic in paying for a whole movie that can just be rented for a quarter of the price, but things like TV shows and even mini-series like Band of Brothers would be awesome on UMD, which would, like you said, have to use multiple disks. I would pay for them, so long as the quality was good enough.

You're really going to want to watch something like Band of Brothers on a little PSP screen, instead of your regular TV?

Aqua Teen, Sealab, things that are like 15 minute episodes, those kinds of things I can see watching while waiting somewhere or something.

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Originally Posted by Opaque

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/s...6&postcount=36

I'm expecting you to keep true to this.

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Most every spectators stated it would launch between $250 and $300, but to be fair: if you cut it, you keep it.