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Gaming News
Sony planned UMD-less PSP ‘from the beginning’
Richard - July 5th, 2009 4:51 PM
An interview with Naoya Matsui, who is the boss of Sony Computer Entertainment’s product planning division, revealed that Sony was simply waiting for the the digital distribution market to mature.
Sony had planned to release a ‘network centric’ model of the PSP ever since the beginning, according to an interview on website GameBusiness.jp.
"But if we’d simply released the hardware, there wouldn’t have been much for everyone to enjoy. We needed to prepare the right environment for it first – things like the transferral of content with the PS3 and PSN, and PC software to manage content like music and movies such as Media Go.
"We wanted to release it when the delivery of digital content was on par with the delivery of physical media. That’s what we’ve been working on these past two years. We’ll be selling the PSP Go alongside the existing PSP models, because it’s a product targeted at those people who are more accustomed to digital content."
PSP Go, which will feature a download-only software model, is set launch in the US and Europe on October 1, and in Japan a month later.
