Sony denies PSP2 rumors, calls it "misinterpretation"

The psp2 isn't going to drop UMD altogether. One, that would piss off the game consignment market. Two, the psp2 will probably be backwards compatible. Three, digital distribution will be available, but it has its own issues such as if consumers actually own the product or just have a time-constrained license and how restrictive will drm be if you wish to transfer a title from the psp it was purchased on to a new psp that was purhcased. Physical media is there for as long as the media exist, non-physical media is there for as long as a company allows you to have it.

That should have been a reply to Maverick Saturn's reply.

You annoy me, simply because everything you're saying is 100% right and I don't want to have to agree with you, but I must.

PSP is a great system, but Sony is lost like a sheep in the woods, simple things that should be there aren't and we are lacking, they are trying to do everything at once, and not doing all to the best of thier abilities.

Games / Movies / Music should be DD based and UMD dropped, make more use of PSStore like iTunes. There should be an MSN like chat system already on PSP so when you meet people you can add them, play games with them, much like PS3 friends list and chat to them on PSP anywhere in the world, takes the need of mobile capabilities away, all you need then is a headset and cam of any quality as extras (like msn) and you can have visual or audio convos, heck you should be able to have multi convos like MSN. Next, sort out music and video playback, I want to be able to delete, move, rename etc my files ON PSP, not on PC, thats annoying adding what you said as well. Internet need sorting out, I want youtube!

Alot of Sony's woes could be sorted if they just ditched the umd slot and replaced it with an internal harddrive, with the extra option of using mini or normal sd memory stick slots. Sony should already have a camera built in and they have no excuse, look how much Apple can fit into that sleek little Iphone, and yeah, its not perfect, but its superb, why can't Sony fit them in?

Sony would probably love to drop UMD and go download only. That way there would be no used games for sale, no swapping among friends. No mail rental services. If you want to play, cough up full new retail every time.

Plus they could sell way more Memory Sticks. I doubt a hard drive would be a good idea given the stresses and pounding a PSP takes, far more than an iPod. Hard drives are very failure prone compared to flash drives and solid state memory.

my thoughts exactly.

Really. Who has thumbs that long (besides Uma Thurman)?

And while were at it, full Sixaxis controls and DualShock rumble, so we can use it as a PS3/PS4 controller.

i would say 2-3 years...

2-3 years probably. Psp Is kinda topsy turvy so noone can be sure

in the next 2-3 years we will have psp4000 or psp5000. still psp1, lol.

They did announce that psp would be a 10 year operation thing earlier on when they first released it so you most likely are right however knowing Sony, I wouldn't be too sure on there promises.

If Sony listened, they would have lowered prices (bad idea, goodbye profits) and kept PS2 backward compatibility for the PS3 (would have been a good idea) .