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Sony to announce new PSP handheld at E3 in June?
Rumors about a redesigned PSP handheld have been floating around for months as pressure builds on Sony to produce a compelling Nintendo DSi and iPhone/iPod touch rival. While the company has been mum about any sort of successor, denying such a device is even on their plans, Pocket Gamer says it has received inside confirmation that a new version is indeed coming before the end of the year.
Echoing previous descriptions, a developer who's allegedly working with the new hardware claims Sony's next-gen portable gaming console will have larger screen that slides and doubles as a touch screen along with dual-analog thumbsticks. According to the source, Sony is also considering to drop the UMD optical format entirely in favor of digital-only content through the PlayStation Store.
We should note that none of this is officially confirmed, but Pocket Gamer claims the new PSP will be announced in June at E3 so we should find out soon enough. Either way, it looks like Sony will be facing some pretty serious competition in this segment from both Apple and Nintendo. (Note: The image above is just a fan made mockup, not the actual product)
Echoing previous descriptions, a developer who's allegedly working with the new hardware claims Sony's next-gen portable gaming console will have larger screen that slides and doubles as a touch screen along with dual-analog thumbsticks. According to the source, Sony is also considering to drop the UMD optical format entirely in favor of digital-only content through the PlayStation Store.
We should note that none of this is officially confirmed, but Pocket Gamer claims the new PSP will be announced in June at E3 so we should find out soon enough. Either way, it looks like Sony will be facing some pretty serious competition in this segment from both Apple and Nintendo. (Note: The image above is just a fan made mockup, not the actual product)
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User Comments (3)
Post a comment| Nirkon on April 7, 2009 4:08 PM | The image you posted here has been floating around the web
for more than a year, and was reported a fake a long time
ago (i didn't see a mention of that).
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| JosVilches on April 7, 2009 4:47 PM | Yes, that it just a fan made mock-up not the actual thing...
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| yukka on April 8, 2009 6:08 AM | Sony really have gone off backwards compability haven't
they? I refer to dropping UMD - I mean I never thought it
was a great idea but then if I had bought a PSP already why
would I upgrade to another one that didnt play my movie
collection? I know you can always use the old one but maybe
creating your own movie playing disk standard has been
proven to be a dumb idea.. I hope the analogue sticks are better than the old ones as well - never got on with the old one when i did play on it round a friends.
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