Meet the PSP Go. This device was going to be one of Sony’s big announcements at their press conference next week during E3 but the news and images of this handheld were leaked early today.

Apparently, Sony believes that what gamers really wanted in their PSP was for it to be smaller ala the Nintendo DS Light. The unit looks to have ditched the UMD drive and features 16GB of onboard memory for your digital-download only games and media. This news really doesn’t blow me away like I was hoping their big announcement would. I did not think the size of the PSP was the problem. If this new unit had a 3G modem on it for digital downloads on-the-go I would be much more enthusiastic. I understand that Sony means this to be a gaming device but in this day and age people expect more from their mobile electronics.

*Updated Thought: And, after hearing about the Zune HD, an HD radio tuner would have rocked as well…

Check out other shots of the device After the Break!