Mr Perry makes some good and bad points here. I agree that Sony's policy of locking out homebrew developers with their stupid updates makes no sense at all. They are aliennating their very audience, something they shouldn't be doing when the DS is already kicking their arse into touch. I purchased Ridge Racers 2 on PSP the other day and what do I get, another damn update.

While I still think PSP has already lost this battle with DS (some of you will naturally disagree but that's fine) becuase Nintendo's hand held knowledge and sweet games library seems too much for them to handle, Sony show no sign of beginning to care for its customers. Until their attitude that gamers are the enemy changes, their handheld fortunes won't either.

What has happened to the Sony that used to love and respect us? That used to encourage homebrew coding via the Yaroze? That used to know what the hell to do. They cared once but money is their god now.

Losing the UMD isn't an option, that would just alienate people more and create countless dead PSP owners with no games to buy for their PSP. A digital distribution method could have worked, but unless you have a few gb cards its pointless. No real use doing it now unless Sony cut their damn mem card prices, which they won't do, so we are back to square one.

Indeed an open source PSP might save it, but unfortunately Sony are too stupid getting drunk on our money that they'll never do it. So go homebrewers, fight the powers that be.

All hands on deck, this Sony ship is sinking. Will they save the customers or just save their own arse instead?

I enjoy a lot of games on my PSP, but when Sony fail me I'm glad I have my DS. A PSP redesign would have to be £100-£110 for me to even consider buying one, but I just don't see it. Sony are too greedy.

get rid of the umd completely to cut down on device size.. LOL

shall we remove the dvd disc drive from the ps2 as well

i stopped reading when he said that

Ditching the UMD drive as a cost/size cutting measure has to be the single dumbest suggestion I've seen from an industry professional.

There are currently over 200 games available on the PSP in the UMD format, you honestly want to make a new version of the hardware that is incapable of playing them? You want to convince existing owners to "upgrade" while locking them out of their existing library?

If you want to replace physical media then you had better be prepared to distribute all of those titles and you need to consider having a system in place that allows owners of existing physical media to obtain the electronic version at no cost.

Naturally this will never happen.

Get rid of the UMD?? Not all of the games for the PSP are a 10Mb download....Many are Gigabytes. That is anti-convenient. Here's a better strategy: Make more good games.