Although not a real, Sony PlayStation Portable concept, this artist's rendition brings about serious technolust. It manages to hit all the marks of a sought-after consumer electronics product: it's thin, black, shiny, and has a huge screen. Oh, and it slides -- and people love sliding electronics.
This mock-up's functionality has been improved, too. There's the dual analog nubs we've been bitching about for years, and it also sports a PS button like the PS3.
Sony, do you want to win the portable gaming market? Call this guy, get this thing made, launch with Shadow of the Colossus II and Final Fantasy XVII Portable, and send Destructoid ten review models.
Check out the big, sexy, hi-res version in the gallery below.
[Via Gizmodo]
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11:38 AM on 02.12.2008
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Also, agreed, Shadow of the Colossus 2 would be sweeeeeeeeeet.
Just for really good reasons.
I think it would increase sales, but not enough to stomp on the DS or anything close.
Can it fit in my pocket? Where are the R and L buttons?
either way you see it, the huge sliding screen is awesome!
Playing looks awkward, and i can already see the scratches on the screen.
Oh the scratches.
DO WANT!
That and there is no way a moving part that big is supposed to not get damaged in anyone's pocket.
But, if you slap that sliding screen with a touch screen interface, I'd be all over it.
Maybe I'm too much of a DS fan, but I can only imagine that if they did that, people would complain that the screen moves around too much while they play.
I don't know if I'd rush out to buy it though...
This redesign, if real, is what Sony would have to do in order to get me to buy a PSP
Sony, do it now!
My only problem is that it feels like the screen lacks serious protection and would get damaged something bad...
Maybe they should do something a little like the PC tablets... have a screen that starts facing down, flips so that you can play, and then folds back so that it's like it was before but the screen is facing up (like in the pic to the right)
Do Not Want
Lacks the same as the DS. I get my hands all cramped out when playing Mario Kart.
screen would get so scratched.
good effort, poor decision making.
The slider would wear out VERY quickly, as they tend to with slider phones.
The reason the clamshell design of the GBA SP and the DS is so successful is because it offers screen protection as well as portability. A big screen is nice if you don't get it at the cost of comfort.
Maybe they should have thought things through and come up with something more functional instead of ripping off iRiver?
iRiver gaming concept