No UMD For echochrome In The US

I really don’t understand this. I guess it could be because PSP games just don’t sell in stores that well but limiting a major release like this to just download seems silly. Especially considering that the PSP version has more levels and content.

Echochrome as food for the road: The game was released on UMD for PlayStation Portable in Japan and Asia. We ordered it from the importers over at Play-Asia over the weekend, because we weren’t sure whether Sony Computer Entertainment America was going to release Echochrome PSP on these shores. But we can now confirm, exclusively, that it will be coming to North America via the Playstation Network store only–i.e. not brick and mortar retail–with its own unique 56 levels. When we get our UMD version from Play-Asia, we’ll give you an update.

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