There is word that, despite the PSP 3000 launching this year and failing to give the system any sort of worldwide appeal, Sony will continue to abandon logic and reason by releasing a PSP 4000 in late 2009, before working on a real successor console at a later date. Wait, what?
There has been no official announcement, but GI.biz seems fairly certain that this is happening. Sony has refused to comment on either the 4000 SKU or a real successor.
If a PSP 4000 truly is planned for next year, then Sony has thoroughly lost the plot. It's bad enough that the PSP currently has three models, none of which have resonated with a wide audience outside of Japan, but to update the model only a year after the last failed attempt is to alienate the market entirely.
Unlike the PS3, the PSP is truly a system with a mediocre game library. People don't want the PSP because it tried to do everything and ended up doing nothing. If Sony thinks rehashed consoles are the way to stop being this generation's whipping boy, it's in for a rude awakening.
I hope this is not true. I'd like to think that not even Sony is that stupid.
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8:43 AM on 12.16.2008
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Japan and Korea are selling the PSP-S310, a tv antenna that picks up digital tv signals. I'm seeing adds for it in Korea, looks pretty cool.
http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/sony_psps310_more_info.php
Not sure if this would work in the states.
Best $200 I've ever spent.
LOLZ
To be fair I've used my first gen psp as an mp3 player and a damn fine one at that. Couldent be happier. Nice job sony!
piss poor games don't really need to say any more.
I don't have what any would probably consider a lot of games for either handheld, but I have around 16 games for my PSP and 8 for my DS so that probably speaks for itself. Now carry on with the PSP hate.
well good for you, 16 games well holy fuck, I've got 3 and got bored of them very quickly and have yet to see a decent game for the psp that I want to get. Now I have a great little mp3 player that keeps me happy on the way to work and I use my PC for gaming as it should be.
I actually like my PSP, mind you it have been "remodeled"
I just began breeding Chocobos in FF7, I'm about to meet Id for the first time in Xenogears, I've got Legend of Mana, Vandal Hearts, and every other awesome RPG from the PS1 and prior eras ready to be placed and played WHENEVER I WANT!
Sony may not be able to do anything cool with it themselves but at least the rest of us with some know-how can make it awesome.