Kotaku is reporting that a developer at Acclaim, David Perry, wrote this message on his Facebook and Twitter accounts: “I hear Sony FINALLY has the PSP 2. And thank goodness, they’ve removed the stupid battery-sucking UMD disc drive. I’m excited!” Now that message is rapidly making its way through the blogosphere. Of course, it’s unclear what it means exactly. As Kotaku says, no one knows if Perry has seen the new PlayStation Portable or is “just hearing rumors through the development community.” At the same time, it wouldn’t be surprising if Sony were to shift away from a cumbersome optical disc system and move completely to flash memory storage (Memory Stick Pro Duo) and digital downloads via the PlayStation Network Store. Kotaku does bring up a good point in wondering how such a device would be backward-compatible (perhaps if you have the UMD, you’d be allowed to download a digital version of the same game?). While there’s been a lot of chatter lately about a totally new PSP system, it’s still up in the air whether the next version will be a complete redesign (a true PSP2) or just another another incremental upgrade to something that would be called the PSP-4000 (we’re on PSP-3000 right now). Kotaku and others are pointing to E3 in early June as a moment that would be ripe for a PSP2 announcement–which does seem logical. if the psp ever looks like that and does whatever it is said to be able to do, then i guess sony is gonna top the chart in console gaming ._.
I don't get why they are adding cameras to the new psp and dsi...By now, you would think people's cell phones would have at least 2 mp cameras.
ooOoo i likey the design of it the pink splash looks good... does the screen move up and down to open/close the keyboard thingy...?...
The PSP2 looks pretty sleek. It kinda looks like a thin digital camera. The keyboard looks pretty small might not be ergonomically good. Plus i dont know if the battery life will be better or worst with the addition of the new functions. But its good that they are taking the UMD out. I find it loads much slower with UMD and sometimes it freezes
I hated the UMD mainly cuz it drained the battery. But then again, most people download games anyways.
what is up with the camera, i heard that sony were thinking of teaming up with ericsson to make the psp a phone as well but that got rejected. i mean the camera is a nice extra but can't imagine it to take gd pictures and at this day and age every phone u get has a camera now anyway so it's not rele a useful extra as ur phone camera will prob be better.
hmm not bad not bad at all, like the pink splash on it, hope there will be many more colour concepts when its released.
