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Exclusive: Sony PSP2 Rumors Bogus, No New Handheld Gaming Gadget Coming (SNE)
Exclusive: Sony PSP2 Rumors Bogus, No New Handheld Gaming Gadget Coming (SNE)
Reports that game publishers are already working on a "PSP2" are flat-out false, Sony (SNE) executives say. Speaking to SAI earlier today, Sony Director of Hardware Marketing John Koller said he's familiar with Internet reports PSP2 game development is already underway, but said the rumors ...
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Sony PSP2 rumors debunked, probably not for the last time
Engadget — ... OK, guys and gals, we hate to break it to you -- John Koller, Sony's Director of Hardware Marketing has said it in plain English: "no plans for a PSP2 are underway." Apparently, the company is pushing developers towards the PlayStation store for their primary point of ...

Sony Slowly Backing Away from UMD, Snuggling With Digital Distribution [PSP]
Gizmodo — ... ? Pure confusion, says Sony exec John Koller. Rumormongers are somehow mistaking its push to digital distribution, away from UMD, as work on PSP2. Uh huh. [SAI] ...

Sony Have NO PLANS For A PSP2 [No Plans Watch]
Kotaku — ... totally wrong! According to Koller, all Sony are doing is "pushing developers away from its "Universal Media Discs" and towards digital distribution of games via the PSP store". That's all! In other words, Mr. Koller would like us all to believe that a number of developers who develop for the PSP could not differentiate between this "push" and developing for an all-new handheld. Not the strongest "no plans" denial we've seen, then, but it gets points for its creative "explanation"! Exclusive: Sony PSP2 Rumors Bogus, No New Handheld Gaming Gadget Coming (SNE) [Silicon Alley ...

Sony Rejects PSP2 Speculation
Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today — ... suggesting that Sony was looking to bring both a new iteration of the PSP to the market said to be called the PSP 4000 as well as a new handheld entirely further down the line. Yet Sony s director of hardware marketing, John Koller, has explained that the reports have misinterpreted Sony s newly-announced policy of focusing developers away from Universal Media Discs and towards digital distribution. He tells Silicon Alley Insider that no plans for a PSP2 are underway. The article does not clarify if Koller was approached on the subject of the rumoured PSP 4000, a ...

Sony PSP-4000 and PSP2 rumors denied by Sony
Obsessable News Feed — ... , Sony Director of Hardware Marketing John Koller told Silicon Alley Insider, that the rumors were completely unfounded. Instead, Koller indicated that the rumors began because of a misinterpretation of Sony's current move encouraging game developers to move away from a UMD disk based distribution model for games and content for ...

Sony denies PSP2 rumors, calls it "misinterpretation"
Joystiq [PlayStation] — ... Chatting with Silicon Alley Insider, Sony's John Koller called the PSP2 rumor "completely unfounded." Koller called the push for a PSP2 a "misinterpretation" for the PSP's refocused direction away from UMDs and move towards digital distribution. Despite a ...

Those PSP2 rumors are wildly innacurate
CrunchGear — ... are wrong, Virginia, and Sony is not actively working on the PSP2. Rather, Sony is moving developers away from UMD and toward digital distribution, using the PSP store. Somehow, this was transformed into, “OMG SONY WORKING ON PSP2.” ...

Sony PSP2 rumor squashed
Tech Ticker — ... lots of things about Sony coming out with a PSP successor in 2009, dubbed as PSP2. Well, it looks like the rumor has been crushed to death. Sony’s Director of Hardware Marketing, John Koller has confirmed to Alley Insider that Sony is no way thinking of developing the successor in the near future. Koller says the rumormongers mistook Sony’s push for digital downloads of games via the PSN store as a secret PSP2 development. ...

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