PSP 2.0 on its way

[Lovecraft13]

General speculation and rumor has swirled around an upcoming PSP redesign for months, and today the news breaks that the handheld will indeed soon be reborn in a slimmer and handier incarnation. Ray Maguire, managing director of Sony Computer Entertainment UK, spoke at the launch of the PSP in Education initiative and confirmed the rumors.

According to Maguire, the redesigned PSP will be slimmer and more pocket friendly, but will retain the original model's screen size. No more details were made available, but speculation has long focused upon the potential for a built in 8GB ram-HDD and the possibility of an integrated camera and maybe GPS. Of course, the updated PSP will still compete with the cheap DS lite, which has led many to suspect that entirely new features will be few in the new model to save in production cost.

The original PSP was a rather impressive piece of technology when it originally launched, and still looks plenty sexy among other bits of stylish tech. A more pocket-able model will likely do a lot to move the PSP from an airplane and car ride device to a daily use gadget.

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[Calloway]

yay! I might actually get one now. I had to downgrade from a ds to a sp because I need something fer my pocket.

[Biofungus]

I've been reading various articles about retailers basically calling for Sony to downsize the PSP (in size and especially price) or they'll stop carrying them. This is Sony caving in (considering how Sony has basically kept that same "fuck 'em, they'll buy it anyway" attitude, it's about time Sony has actually started listening to what people want, instead of trying to tell them what they should want).

[Mr.Musgrave]

A slimmer and more pocket friendly PSP will still be a P.o.S. dead end system. Instead of trying to jam all the mindless gadgets they can into it (a camera? a gps? what the fuck?) they should try making it a worthwhile gaming system first.

This shiny little turd couldn't beat the DS with a nuclear goddam warhead.

[ponyrl]

The DS was an advanced version of a SP with little difference visually. Touch screen and WiFi doesn't change the fact that in the looks catagory (game appearance) they (DS & SP) are the same. Not much was advanced in the DS.

Given the games on the DS are more abundant, but if you don't like the types of games they have, then a DS isn't for that person.

PSP's not that hot on games, but you can use it for other things and for me, that's good.

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[Mr.Musgrave]

PSP's not that hot on games, but you can use it for other things and for me, that's good.


Maybe, but I'm one of those funny people who would rather have a quality camera/gps/mp3/movie player. The crap stuffed into a psp is exactly that. Crap. It's the tv/dvd/vcr combo of the handheld set. All the little half-assed extras don't make up for the fact that it's a shit gaming system. Smoke and mirrors.

Oh, and graphics aren't what make a game good.

[ponyrl]

Maybe, but I'm one of those funny people who would rather have a quality camera/gps/mp3/movie player. The crap stuffed into a psp is exactly that. Crap. It's the tv/dvd/vcr combo of the handheld set. All the little half-assed extras don't make up for the fact that it's a shit gaming system. Smoke and mirrors.

Oh, and graphics aren't what make a game good.
I figure that SONY may have been playing more to the Asian market when they add all those things. The japanese and multi-tasking gadgets are like Peanut butter and jelly.

Both compete in the same market, but if looked at casually, the PSP isn't really that devoted to gaming.

The DS is, and I admit that. PSP always seemed designed for a different market demo than DS.

Graphics may not make a game, but damn, why charge a load of cash for a refurbished SP which the DS is.

If you were able to alter the SP and add a WiFi connection, like a USB bluetooth link to it, it'd be the same thing sans the touch screen.

The PSP (and I'm not defending it just saying) tried a new approach. Did it work? Maybe yes, maybe no. Goes towards your major investment in have either or.

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[Mr.Musgrave]

The PSP (and I'm not defending it just saying) tried a new approach.



How did they do that? They took ideas other people already had and jammed them in to an inferior product. It may do a bunch of things, but it does them all poorly. As I mentioned in another thread, Sony has become the king of sloppy seconds.

As far as "playing more to the Asian market", according to January's sales charts for Japan the DS outsold the PSP by 632,000 units. It was by 1,158,000 units in December. They might be trying to play to the Asian market, but they're failing at that too.

[compton]

How did they do that? They took ideas other people already had and jammed them in to an inferior product. It may do a bunch of things, but it does them all poorly. As I mentioned in another thread, Sony has become the king of sloppy seconds.
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I don't agree. I could get a portable dvd player but I would never bring it anywhere. That's to big to cary ojn a day to day basis I just down load the movies I want to take with me onto my memory stick and away I go I keep the psp in my back pack, and it's there for music too. I take the train everyday to work and class so i use it more as quick entertainment. the screans a hell of allot better than an I pods and better than the ds screen allthough you can use that for movies too.

If I could get a smaller version I think I would depending on how It would feal button wise in my hands.

[Mr.Musgrave]

I'll never understand why you'd want to watch a movie on a screen smaller than a playing card.

[Calloway]

I tried on the ds and yeah, it sucked big time.

I like only the strategy games the ds has so it was , in the end, a big waste of money for me. It wasn't pocket portable and didn't have the kind of games I like on it (though the 4 games I had I played and played...mario 64,mario kart, advance wars...hmm maybe it was three). No real good rpgs either.

PSP has games I want to play (metal gear) and play on the go BUT the system is far from pocket portable and the price is ridiculus for what is essentially a micro portable dvd player.

If it were a perfect world I'd have a portable xbox flip top pocket portable or a dreamcast flip top portable.