PSPgo Was Always Planned, Sony Just Had To Wait Until The Time Was Right

By Luke Plunkett

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Sony Computer Entertainment's Naoya Matsui has revealed that the PSPgo had always been on the drawing board at Sony, but is only being released now because the market was ready for it.

"We'd planned to release a PSP model without a UMD drive since the very beginning," he told Japan's GameBusiness. "But if we'd simply released the hardware, there wouldn't have been much for everyone to enjoy. We needed to prepare the right environment for it first - things like the transferral of content with the PS3 and PSN, and PC software to manage content like music and movies such as 'Media Go'".

"We wanted to release it when the delivery of digital content was on par with the delivery of physical media. That's what we've been working on these past two years. We'll be selling the PSPgo alongside the existing PSP models, because it's a product targeted at those people who are more accustomed to digital content."

Poor UMD. It never stood a chance!

Sony planned UMD-less PSP 'from the beginning' [Develop]

What the hell did he just rip off joystiq's article?

I just really don't care for the "No UMD" thing. I like getting my games in the store.

No physical copy works for steam, so it might work for the pspgo as well

Right now would be a great time to work on getting over that.  In about 10 years, everything will be available through DD...and most of it probably won't be available in physical form.

Nah, I'll never get over it.

I'm a collector, so I like buying my discs. However, if the goodwill plan is decent enough, one could have the best of both worlds. Just buy the discs and transfer them to the PSP Go.

That being said, I already have a PSP, and see no reason to buy another, let alone at that price.

I agree. I like having a box with instructions and the actual game. If say my Wii messes up and I lose all my full Wii games. I would never rebuy them. IN fact i would sell my Wii and stop playing period.

@Games4Fun- You are pretty cool. People who agree with me are awesome. lol Nothing beats buying the game in the store.

Makes sense... PSN wasn't really doing so hot till 2008.

If it released back in Japan 04/USandPAL 05 it would have failed miserably since PSN wasn't even around.