"We Hate UMD Until Sony Decide To Move Away From It. Now We Love It." Oh Fickle Consumer Turds.

"Why can't we have a download-only system?" they asked, "Why do we have to have this UMD format?" We were with those people, we wanted a smaller more portable disc-less system and we bought one. Sadly, ever since the PSPgo's come out the consumers moaned, "Why would I buy half a system without the disc-drive? Why would they take UMD out?" Oh consumers.

Well thanks a lot guys. Sony's now admitted that the PSPgo was released as a bit of an experiment to test the waters of "consumer demand". Thanks to you guys who moan about everything everybody does, we're probably going to have to put up with physical media as part of the PSP2. Cheers a lot. Pat yourselves on the back.

“One of the reasons we launched PSPgo was to understand where that consumer behavior was going. We were getting signals from consumers that this was the kind of device that they wanted," said SCEE's Andrew House.

“But we need to recognize that consumers like their packaged media library.”

So what you're saying, House, is that consumers don't know what they want as usual? Correct. Well most consumers anyway. We said we wanted digital and we've got behind it. Sure, pricing mistakes were made on Sony's part, but this is once again an example of consumers shouting demands from the roof-tops without a clue what they're really asking for.