Dave Perry, formerly of Shiny, currently at Acclaim... and the man behind Earthworm Jim, has publicly called out Sony after it called into question his claims that the next PSP signals the death of UMD.
Over on Twitter, Dave Perry has tweeted, "John Koller is publically questioning my post about PSP 2. So I confirmed with Top PSP 2 developers. John, state that PSP 2 WILL have UMD."
Following Perry's claim that Sony "has" the PSP2 and that it comes sans UMD drive, Koller (director of hardware marketing for the PSP) said that Sony had "never engaged" with Perry. He said that he does not know where Perry's information is coming from.
Perry will be astonishingly lucky to get a firm response from Koller or Sony as a whole. While Koller was happy to cast aspersions on the source of Perry's information, he remained typically non-committal on whether Perry was actually right.
Adding more fuel to the fire, Eurogamer reports that a "development source close to Sony" (which could, of course, be any developer working on a PlayStation project) told it that the next PSP won't have UMD (as Perry said) and that it will have a sliding screen that can cover up the majority of its controls and shoulder button-only play.
With Sony having admitted that it is pushing developers away from UMD and towards digital distribution, the chances of the next PSP being download only certainly aren't bad...
Over on Twitter, Dave Perry has tweeted, "John Koller is publically questioning my post about PSP 2. So I confirmed with Top PSP 2 developers. John, state that PSP 2 WILL have UMD."
Following Perry's claim that Sony "has" the PSP2 and that it comes sans UMD drive, Koller (director of hardware marketing for the PSP) said that Sony had "never engaged" with Perry. He said that he does not know where Perry's information is coming from.
Perry will be astonishingly lucky to get a firm response from Koller or Sony as a whole. While Koller was happy to cast aspersions on the source of Perry's information, he remained typically non-committal on whether Perry was actually right.
Adding more fuel to the fire, Eurogamer reports that a "development source close to Sony" (which could, of course, be any developer working on a PlayStation project) told it that the next PSP won't have UMD (as Perry said) and that it will have a sliding screen that can cover up the majority of its controls and shoulder button-only play.
With Sony having admitted that it is pushing developers away from UMD and towards digital distribution, the chances of the next PSP being download only certainly aren't bad...
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headcasephil 3 Mar 2009 14:03
1/4
this dose not bother my to much but i could you see the ps store is getting more and more stuff put on it all the time iv payed a lot of money to get a lot of things for it but and this is a big but if the psp2 is to lose the umd they need to bring out the playstaion card in the eu so i could go and buy it were ever i am i can do it for my 360 i can do it for my wii i can even do it for my ipod touch so why sony so slow as i have snap up my credit card i now have no means on buying new games for my psp/ps3 from the store till i can get a pscard
way 9 Mar 2009 17:24
2/4
Think Wii like PS3 that downloads content over the Internet, that would nail it for them. A PS3 with BR in the living room and others around the house loading from the main PS3 or through broadband. Seems possible.
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way 9 Mar 2009 17:27
3/4
They could be working on an IPOD/Iphone competitor as well as a regular machine?
way 9 Mar 2009 17:48
4/4
"and that it will have a sliding screen that can cover up the majority of its controls and shoulder button-only play."
Well, they finally got there.
Well, they finally got there.