Jack Tretton: Sony considering PSP with hard drive, internal memory
At a gathering of journalists earlier today, Jack Tretton, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, mentioned that Sony was (and is) thinking about the possibility of making a PSP with a built-in hard drive or internal memory. Learn more after the jump.
Following the announcement of a new PSP Entertainment Pack comes another interesting revelation into the business strategy for the PlayStation Portable.
At a gathering of journalists earlier today, Jack Tretton, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, mentioned that Sony was (and is) thinking about the possibility of making a PSP with a built-in hard drive or internal memory.
According to Tretton, the chances of a new PSP with extra storage are becoming more likely, given the recently announced ability to pick up movies on your PS3 and move them to the PSP as well as the continuing drop in price of memory.
Tretton also noted that the advent of digitally distributed movies for the PSP is likely to affect the UMD movie sales, either supplementing UMD movie sales or becoming “the stake in UMD’s heart.” Tretton admits that “the UMD has struggled. And that’s an understatement. That’s been a very frustrating thing. I don’t think (UMD movies) were handled very effectively.”
While we’re not too keen on the death of a medium, the possibility of seeing a new PSP model with more memory is certainly an intriguing prospect. Hopefully, Sony finds a way to create a market for a memory-enhanced PSP and further UMD movie sales.
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Via Kotaku
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