SCEA hasn't managed to deliver all PSP UMD releases digitally -- let alone simultaneously with retail -- and even said the likelihood of making such parity would be several years off. That doesn't appear to be the case with PSP's sucessor, the NGP, based on comments made by SCEE president Andrew House.

"One thing we learnt from PSP, is that we want to have simultaneous delivery in digital and physical for NGP," House told MCV. "Just to clarify that, all games that appear physically will be made available digitally."

While that's certainly positive news, we're still waiting on word about Sony filling in the gaps on downloadable PSP back-catalog games -- which will run on the NGP, some with patched-in support for the handheld's second analog stick. Then there's the matter of the system's proprietary flash storage media, needed to store downloaded games, being a bit fuzzy. In short: Sony still has a lot to explain about its powerful new portable.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/18/ngp-games-will-be-downloadable-day-and-date-with-retail-releases/

Sony is doing everything right with ngp, keep it up!

damn straight you should have had simutaneous delevery of digital and physical media for the psp.  i'm excited to see the NGP is looking to get things right this time around.

I was just reading about this, I love it when things make perfect sense. I'm definitely getting NGP, it will be my first hand-held.