I had a chance to meet with Jack Tretton and Kaz Hirai during their now annual blogger event. It's kind of a neat idea. Sony gathers together a bunch of bloggers for an open meeting with an assortment of Sony executives.

The first such event, held at GDC, was quite amazing. Not only was there a pretty wide selection of Sony folks on hand, they were just as interested in hearing what we had to say as we were in what they had to say. So it was more like a chat than an interview.

This time around things seemed more like a straight-up interview. I ended up not really asking that much because Sony had been kind enough to set up a one-on-one interview for us with Jack Tretton earlier in the day.

Kaz had some interesting things to say, in particular he said that in his new role with the company he's trying to afford the regional presidents more control or at least say over what's going on in their area.

"One of the things I've tried to start changing is giving more autonomy, decision power to the regional headquarters," he said in the group meeting.

As always, I asked about the PSP download service, my now years long pet-peeve. Kaz said that they are "looking at a variety of ways of brining a video download service and a music service to the PS3 as well as the PSP." He also made a good point about the delay. He said that they couldn't launch a PSP service that didn't also include the PS3 and because of that there have been some hang-ups.

"Given the fact we want to make sure we are integrating the experience, we want to make it a PSP, PS3 experience, we can't look at it in a vacuum. It's is a bit of a hardware transition issue. This is the reality of being in the business of both a console and a portable... the ingredients are all in place."

Hit up Joystiq which was kind enough to transcribe a redacted version of the full interview, or you can check out or exclusive one-on-one interview with Tretton after the jump, broken down into bite-sized videos.

Jack Tretton On:
The future of the UMD
Metal Gear Solid 4 Exclusivity and its future
Sony's Take on Video on Demand
The new PSP
SIXAXIS Rumble
The Future of the Playstation Network
The Death of E3