Sony had planned to release a ‘network centric’ model of the PSP ever since the beginning, according to an interview on website GameBusiness.jp.
In an interview with the head of SCE’s product planning division, Naoya Matsui, it has been revealed that the company was simply waiting for the digital pipeline to reach a mature-enough state to sustain such a device.
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