UMD-Less PSP Was Part of PSP's Future From Beginning Says Sony

The head of Sony Corportation Entertainment product planning Naoya Matsui said in an interview that the company had been planning for a media-less PSP gaming console from the beginning. Talking to Japanese website Gamebusiness, he said that the company planned to release a PSP model without a UMD drive from the beginning and added that "if we'd simply released the hardware, there wouldn't have been much for everyone to enjoy. We needed to prepare the right environment...