In 2005, Sony bundled a playable version of WipEout Pure with its UMD release of Stealth. It was an unusual experiment in turning the PSP's movie format into something more than a way to watch films

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 :)

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I’m 100% sure that they placed the artificial block not because of the bad resolution but because the copyright holders gave a license for portable viewing and not for home video (probably cheaper at the time)