On: Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony

[apple4ever]

Sony tried hard to mismanage too, especially around cross platform play. It's why I was glad I stuck with the Xbox.

[dylan604 → apple4ever]

As an example, the PSP's UMD format. So much time/effort went into that, while at the same time allowing content to be read from an SD card. Of course I can only assume this was meant as some lame IP protection, and possibly an attempt to bring back a format similar to the once popular minidisc. Also funny to me was that Blu-ray was knock knock knocking already with their Java based programming, while the UMD was programmed much more similarly to HD-DVDs.

[ppseafield → dylan604]

It was because Sony had a ton of mini discs laying around since the format didn't take off. The UMD cartridges are just mini discs internally.

[dylan604 → ppseafield]

what do you mean? there were no recordable UMDs. they all had to be stamped. so having mini discs laying around would serve no purpose

[ppseafield → dylan604]

My mistake. I had heard the explanation I gave from a video, but now I've tried to find another source, and I cannot.