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Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai has addressed some key PSP and UMD rumours, along with giving insight into the future in an interview with GameSpot. Speaking about the PSP Connect service, Hirai confirmed Sony were still hard at work on the project and were committed to a launching a quality product, rather than something rushed to market. "We are still hard at work on the download service for PSP. And again, we want to make sure that what we're offering is something that we can be happy with as opposed to something that's just put together for the sake of getting something out there as quickly as possible." Talking about downloadable PlayStation One titles for the PSP, Hirai confirmed that it was still the plan to bring the service "as close to launch as possible" by the end of the year. Any suggestion of all 1200 titles being released for the PSP at the same time was quickly thrown out. The subject of a PSP "2" was also met with flat refusal backed up with the fact the PSP has been Sony's fastest selling unit compared with the PlayStation and the PS2. "...we're obviously very happy with the technology we've packed into the current PSP, and we don't have any plans to redesign the PSP at this point in time." After denial of any planned price drops for the PSP console, the subject of the UMD format was put to Hirai which was met with a comprehensive reply quoting suitability of certain media to a prerecorded medium such as the UMD. Mention of a move from UMD to memory stick as a preferred medium of content delivery, was met with verbal applause from Hirai as both methods would increase the PSP ownership base. Read the full interview with Kaz Hirai at GameSpot.
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