Sony planned UMD-free PSP 'from the beginning'

Thursday, 2nd July 2009 at 3:02 pm

Platform holder was simply waiting for digital market to mature, says head of product planning

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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