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By Niko Silvester, About.com Guide to PSP

Engadget Talks to Jack Tretton

Wednesday July 23, 2008
The folks at Engadget recently had a chance to ask Sony Computer Entertainment of America's CEO Jack Tretton a few things about the PlayStation brand, including PS3, PSP, Home and more. Here's the bit about the PSP:
On drive or flash storage: Sony has "definitely thought about storage on the PSP," and understands the inevitable "march towards digital content delivery device." But in terms of a drive-based PSP, they have "nothing that's imminent." (Read: don't hold your breath.)

On how downloadable video affects the already sad state of UMD: UMD "has struggled, and it wasn't handled effectively from the beginning. ... I firmly believe in a digital model" as they're rolling out, but Sony is "still going to support UMD" as a device for movies.

What's preventing PSP software sales: Three things. Title ports from PS2 games (people don't want to buy the same title twice), and the PSP's media functions. But Jack put the most emphasis on "piracy in the hundreds of thousands of units are preventing software sales. it's a problem that affects our software sales right now."
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