News: Packaged media "not going away any time soon" – House

While the release of the PSPgo demonstrated Sony’s intention to cater for the consumer that prefers digital downloads over packaged media, the latter is “not going away any time soon”.

That’s according to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president Andrew House, who told Industry.biz that the company has no intention of seeing the latest edition in its handheld line-up cannibalise sales of its UMD-equipped PSP-3000.

“I think we were always fairly clear, as far back as the original announcements, that this wasn’t a replacement for the current PSP-3000 offering, and that it sits alongside that and packaged media,” he explained in an industry-exclusive interview. “It’s additive to the business.

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