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Sony: UMD-Free PSP Was Always Planned
Naoya Matsui, the boss of Sony Computer Entertainment's product planning division, has revealed that the platform holder always planned to release a UMD-free PSP once the digital distribution market had matured. "We'd planned to release a PSP model without a UMD drive since the very ...
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Sony’s PSP Go True Processor Speed Revealed
sonyinsider.com — 090618_01 According to recently filed FCC documents , the PSP Go (PSP-N1001) might be faster than we... originally expected. While the official specs stated the clock frequency of the processor at 333MHz, FCC documents have pegged this tiny UMD-less, ... (more) Sony’s PSP Go True Processor Speed Revealed
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Sony: PSP without UMD 'always the plan'
Joystiq — ... to manage content like music and movies such as Media Go." Matsui explains that part of the progression of the PSP to the PSP Go is that Sony had to wait until digital content was on par with physical media, and that the timing now is right. That's one of the reasons why Sony is still selling the existing PSP alongside the Go. Well, that, and it's probably not a good idea to have one single handheld available for purchase that costs as much as a Wii. [Via Edge] Sony: PSP without UMD 'always the plan' originally appeared on ...

Sony exec says UMD-less PSP was "always the plan"
Engadget — ... Well, it's no secret that plenty of folks have been talking about a UMD-less PSP since day one, but it looks like that's been the case behind the scenes at Sony as well, at least according to the company's head of product planning, Naoya Matsui. Speaking with ...

Sony Claims that UMD-Less PlayStation Portable Was Always In The Plans
X-bit labs — ... (which was partly translated by Edge Online web-site). Universal media disc has always been somewhat controversial technology. The optical media was only supported by PSP, which allowed Sony to sell movies on such discs that could only be watched on a PlayStation Portable system and also nearly excluded piracy of video games. However, it was not exactly a goode idea for end users to movies solely for PSP. As a result, removal of UMD brings more concerns to games, but not multimedia fans, simply because very few of the latter bought PlayStation Portable. On the other ...

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