According to Sony president of product planning Naoya Matsui , the company has been planning a UMD-less PSP since the launch of the original handheld system, but was simply waiting for the market for digital downloads to mature. “We’d planned to release a PSP model without a UMD drive since the very beginning,” says Matsui, via Develop . “But if we’d simply released the hardware, there wouldn’t have been much for everyone to enjoy

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