John Koller, is the Director of Hardware Marketing for the PSP over at Sony. He has recently responded to Dave Perry's (Messiah, Earth Worm Jim) Twittered statement that he'd 'heard' about a UMD-free PSP (or PSP2).

Koller says to MTV, "I didn’t even know who he was until about a month ago. I heard about [his PSP2 report] yesterday. We’ve never talked to him at all. I can tell you that we never engaged with him at all, so I don’t know where he’s getting his information."

But that doesn't answer the question as to when the PSP2 is coming or whether what Perry heard was true. Koller does state, "there are no new hardware development kits out there."

He also states, "Sony’s making a big push to digital distribution. That part’s true. And we’ve been making a concerted effort to really over-emphasize the ability for publishers to publish on the PSN..." We're not sure why you'd want to over-emphasise anything.

Finally, when asked directly if "there’s going to be a new PSP that doesn’t use the UMD coming out by the end of the year", he responds in standard form: "Can’t comment either way, but I will reiterate that the digital component is very important to us. That’s all we can say at this point."