No not at all, I by far prefer to have hardcopies. Besides its easier to show off your collection that way! lol

I suspect PSP-3000 and PSP-4000 will co-exist, especially since Hannah Montana PSP-3000 will be available from July.

But if you want to play UMDs, just keep your older model.

ANOTHER redesign? Good grief. :p

I'd complain, but, you know, DSi...

The old system would probably continue to be sold along side the new one for a while.  But when you wanted to get with the new times, you can eventually upgrade.

Digital sales are eventually where everything is gonna go.  They might still sell games on a physical memory card, even for decades to come, like drmaster2 might prefer, but I for one will be happy to not have to haul games around with my system.

Cheeper games, all your games on your PSP or on one memory card.  PSP-3000 shoulda been this way.

I don't get why they'd abandon UMD now..especially not in a PSP-4000, maybe the PSP2..I'll wait until official details are out, but abandoning UMD to me doesn't make sense.

They might very well release some kind of UMD converter to PSP/PC drive for maybe around 20 bucks, like the one that converted PS2 Memory Card save data to PS3 save data.

I know. They should stop it. Stop all the redesigns. I hate them!

Still, I kinda love them.

You know.

Touchscreen I assume?

If a new model of PSP comes out without UMD drive and does not support playing current games, it's essentially PSP2 regardless how it's gonna be called. There is no home console or handheld machines that ever stop support its own games after a redesign.