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PSP 3000's battery life is NOT reduced now? photo

One day, Sony is going to tell a story and then keep that story straight. Until that momentous day, here is news from the Sony Blog telling everyone that, contrary to earlier statements, the PSP 3000's battery life is equivalent to that of the current PSP models.

I’d like to make a correction and clarify that the new PSP will have equivalent battery life to the current PSP, about 4 to 6 hours for games and about 4 to 5 hours for UMD videos. While the enhanced screen of the new PSP draws a little more power, our engineers in Japan worked to reduce the power consumption of the overall system including its components, so you won’t have to worry about losing any time when enjoying the more vibrant visuals displayed with the new PSP.

So there we are. God bless those Japanese engineers, eh? If this is correct (this time) then I am certainly pleased and will be happy to trade in my old and dusty PSP for a shiny new 3000. But honestly Sony -- I'd prefer to hear that the battery life had been extended rather than salvaged.








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DaedHead8's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 17:25
DaedHead8
"I'd prefer to hear that the battery life had been extended rather than salvaged."

Fo'reezy.
vrplumber's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 17:26
vrplumber
same is lame

longer would be stronger
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 17:26
-PL-
They could just be saying it. It's not like you would notice anyway, the life was decreased by what, 20 mins? You'd have to be a pretty big bitch to complain about that anyway.
RWarrior1CO's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 17:44
RWarrior1CO
And some pirate guy was snickering at you in an earlier story about this for not pirating your games and running them off a memory stick (which saves power). It was kind of a lame jab anyway, but now it's super lame.
A New Challenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 17:50
A New Challenger
[url=]http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/09/03/sony-discontinues-ps.html]Apparently a new extended battery is on the way.[/url] According to the link, the old extended battery was somehow being used as a backdoor to hack the thing.
Capn Birdseye's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 17:55
Capn Birdseye
"One day, Sony is going to tell a story and then keep that story straight."

Hah! Fat chance...
Velt's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 17:59
Velt
Maybe I will buy a PSP some sunny day.
Bizznet's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 18:32
Bizznet
Sony exec: "The PSP 3000's battery life isn't terrible anymore. Now it just sucks as bad as it did before!"
the_real_one's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 18:50
the_real_one
psp 4 teh winz
Nerfgun's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 23:32
Nerfgun
"One day, Sony is going to tell a story and then keep that story straight."

WTF? You fucked up the original story by jumping on hearsay, and that's Sony's fault? Oooookay.
Nerfgun's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 23:35
Nerfgun
Ah I take it back. I had read it from some blog engineer who "deconstructed" the new PSP specs first. An apology and a cookie for Jim.
microwavefood's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/04/2008 02:09
microwavefood
whats with that pic lulz
Turbostraw's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/04/2008 05:18
Turbostraw
Those crafty japanese!
Kyvon08's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/05/2008 12:11
Kyvon08
good news, but c'mon sony!

get it together
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