If Sony eliminates the UMD drive, it could open the PSP2 to a new, wider audience, and perhaps gain momentum in the market. The buzz is that the PSP2 would be a fully digital, online device.

New Sony PSP Go! Loses UMD, Expected in June. By Brennon Slattery. Apr 29, 2009 7:49 am PDT. Many rumors have circulated around Sony’s next iteration of its handheld gaming device, the PSP.

The rumors Sony is working on a PSP2?Pure confusion, says Sony exec John Koller. Rumormongers are somehow mistaking its push to digital distribution, away from UMD, as work on PSP2.

According to Perry, the PSP2 will be a "fully digital online device" with the little-loved UMD finally headed to the bin: "I've been (for a long time now) calling on Sony to move with the times.

The new PSP will apparently, as rumored, be losing its UMD optical drive. Like Apple's wildly popular iPhone, it will reportedly come in two models with 8GB and 16GB of flash memory.

Sources are confirming that the upcoming PSP2 prototype that Sony is apparently showing to developers will not offer UMD support. The PSP2 will finally kill UMD for title storage. Instead, the ...

Sony is rumoured to be developing the PSP 2 for release possibly as early as autumn of this year, and it may abolish the UMD format in favour of digital downloads ...

Though many have criticized the PSP’s UMD format, Sony’s John Koller is standing by the little discs, calling them a "unique medium" and extolling their virtues. Talking to Pocket Gamer ...

Those cute little optical discs that serve as a storage medium for the PSP are about to be kicked to the curb, at least in the environs of Beverly Hills. While Sony will undoubtedly continue to ...

TOKYO--Sony has big plans for the PSP and its proprietary format, the Universal Media Disc (UMD). That was the message Sony Computer Entertainment president and CEO Ken Kutaragi was trying to ...

Since the recording of pod 138, Engadget has this morning revealed that Sony will not be abandoning your UMD collection now that the discless PSP Go is on the way.