Topic: Sony plans UMD-free PSP 2

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Kotaku is reporting that a developer at Acclaim, David Perry, wrote this message on his Facebook and Twitter accounts: “I hear Sony FINALLY has the PSP 2. And thank goodness, they’ve removed the stupid battery-sucking UMD disc drive. I’m excited!” Now that message is rapidly making its way through the blogosphere. Of course, it’s unclear what it means exactly. As Kotaku says, no one knows if Perry has seen the new PlayStation Portable or is “just hearing rumors through the development community.” At the same time, it wouldn’t be surprising if Sony were to shift away from a cumbersome optical disc system and move completely to flash memory storage (Memory Stick Pro Duo) and digital downloads via the PlayStation Network Store.

Kotaku does bring up a good point in wondering how such a device would be backward-compatible (perhaps if you have the UMD, you’d be allowed to download a digital version of the same game?). While there’s been a lot of chatter lately about a totally new PSP system, it’s still up in the air whether the next version will be a complete redesign (a true PSP2) or just another another incremental upgrade to something that would be called the PSP-4000 (we’re on PSP-3000 right now). Kotaku and others are pointing to E3 in early June as a moment that would be ripe for a PSP2 announcement–which does seem logical.

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A fairly credible source has leaked that Sony is already hard at work developing the PSP2, and has claimed that the new handheld will have no optical disk drive of any kind. Lead developer at Acclaim announced on Twitter: “I hear Sony FINALLY has the PSP 2. And thank goodness, they've removed the stupid battery-sucking UMD disc drive. I'm excited!" Besides raising the temperature or PSP fans, Perry has also confirmed the status of Twitter as the new ground zero for corporate leaks. Earlier last month, other game publications reported that the PSP 2 would come equipped with a hard drive, multi-touch screen and built in GPS. We also reported that Sony is in negotiations with a British hardware manufacturer to design the graphics chip for the new PSP.

http://www.pspworld.com/sony-psp/accessories/psp-2-rumor-no-umd-drive-009963.php


As more and more third party developers are apprised of the new hardware and given development kits, we expect that Sony will have a difficult time keeping a lid on this new hardware.

If the decision to drop the UMD drive turns out to be true, it will free Sony from the problems associated with spinning disks: slow load times and short battery life. However, it will also present new problems for the company. How would someone that doesn’t have a broadband connection purchase a 700 MB game and install it on the device? In Japan, they have wireless stations in some places that gamers can use to grab new titles, but this system is far from having caught on in the West. On the other hand, the Apple iPhone has no optical drive, and users seem to have no difficulty downloading and using programs from the App Store. Perhaps by the time the PSP 2 is ready in 2010 or 2011, the idea of downloading a 700 MB file wirelessly will seem as natural as buying a packaged game from the shop.

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another site with similar news

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/02/27/sony.on.psp.redesign.rumor/