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Naoya Matsui, head of the Sony’s product planning division, said in an interview that Sony had “planned to release a PSP model without a UMD drive since the vey beginning.” Mr. Matsui added that the only reason the UMD was ever created was because back in 2005, the infrastructure for digital media was not on part with the physical persuasion. So thanks to how far the internet has come in four years, we now have the PSP Go (or at least that seems to be the thinking behind this). While that last part has merit, it all sounds like prepared marketing talk.
You don’t call something a “Universal Media Disk” if you intend to phase it out from the start! Sony wanted to UMD to be a standard for portable, and for more than just games. But they miscalculated. As Yahtzee put it, no one wanted to pay for Full Metal Jacket again just to watch it in “teeny weeny eye-strain-o-vision.” The Sony fanboys will certainly disagree, but this does not ring with the sound of truth.
