PSPgo to get UMD drive add-on?

Wednesday 2-Dec-2009 11:09 AM Peripheral firm Logitech working on UMD reader, source tells CVG

Neither a price or release date was given, but we were told that the device will plug into the PSPgo, allowing users to play their UMD games on the portable.

"The only problem is that it'll make the PSP a little bulky", said our source.

Logitech's UK office told CVG: "We're not aware of it, so it may be something the US office is working on." We're awaiting a response from it and Sony.

PSPgo is able to store and play games from either its internal memory or a memory stick. The news remains rumour for now, but if true, we imagine a UMD reader would insert into the PSPgo's memory stick port on the left side of the console, as did some hard disk add-ons that were released for the older PSP models.

Developer talk at the Tokyo Game Show in September hinted of a plan by Sony to release another iteration of the handheld, a PSP-4000 that would support Sony's UMD format, for release in 2010.

The lack of a UMD drive is, among other things, a widely criticised aspect of the new PSPgo, rendering built up collections of UMD games useless for its owners, who'll have paid a whooping £225 for the pleasure.

We'll keep you informed on this.

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=228684

maybe then i'll buy one!
i seriously want that space and that cool looking

but dude its going to be an add-on. you wouldn't mind buying a add-on?

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What!? With this you will be able to play UMD games on your PSP!? Why haven't Sony thought of this before?

I'd like for this rumor to be true. Im still planning on getting a Go tho and would use the UMD drive for games i wont have on the Go. If the PSP-4000 still has a built-in UMD drive im sure its still going to be fairly bigger than the Go so ill still stick with the Go. I dont like to carry fat stuffs in my pocket.

this would be a very nice move from Sony...but they need to reduce the price of it.

Too bad there isn't a PSP model that already comes with a UMD drive AND a slot you could put a large memory stick into....OH WAIT

Too little too late.

That would be... awkward. XD

i personally don't understand what's the how point when all they are going to do is release more and more revisions to be better. i betting the 4000 PSP revision will have the ability to play previous psp games and such.

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