Sony's PSP Go revealed
Sony's PSP Go is a complete redesign of the previous PSP model, thankfully.
The PSP Go information was leaked online before E3 2009 officially started, but it seems that the new handheld console will not be available in shops until Autumn at the earliest. Sony had apparently planned to announce a new PS3 SKU at E3 too, but that would not launch until later this year either, according to reports.
Some of the details about the PSP Go given in the leaked videos reveal that it will be around 43 percent lighter than the PSP-3000, will have 16GBs of internal flash memory and will operate purely on digital content from the PlayStation Store - the UMD drive is officially a thing of the past. According to Sony's John Koller the PSP Go will have a 3.8 inch screen and a pop-out controller pad too.
"It's going to be something a lot of consumers like - download straight to a hard drive," Koller said in the video.
The slide-out controller pad will be different from the previous PSP model, with more emphasis going on a conventional d-pad, rather than a thumbstick. The old display, sound and volume control buttons from the original PSP are gone too.
Compared to other portable platforms early reports indicate that the screen will be about 0.3 inches larger than that of the iPhone, with the whole PSP body being about 11 percent smaller than the earlier PSP models. Fully expanded the PSP Go is significantly smaller than an opened Nintendo DS or DSi and will be the lightest of all handheld platforms at just 8.3 ounces according to Kotaku.
Sony have since refused to comment on the leaked content, promising only that more details will be coming tomorrow - so stay tuned for that. Until then, discuss the PSP Go in the forums.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyDoes look nicer to use than the existing one though.
If it works nicely with my PS3 then may be interested...
Still wouldn't buy one like handheld consoles for me have always been a novelty for me like "look shiny, play, play, play".......5 mins later its back in its box never to see the light of day again
one of the main reasons for this was the pricing of games which were around the same price as ps2's at the time. I think sony shot themselves in the foot with that one!
Glad to see they are still upholding the psp brand though and hopfully as they are now competing with the iphone redesign the awful interface. trying to scroll through and select music was terrible.
Somehow though, I doubt it'll work that smoothly.
Too bad it was just a fan made concept
You may be right but its only a concept so it's more about form over function. Mind you, looking at the PSP Go, the button layout is a little lower than the original PSP and seeing as it is curved in the same way I'm assuming that you are suppose to hold the device in a similar way which might cause problems. That reminds me, where are all the volume/home/display/sound buttons gone???
Guess the others are on the side / bottom somewhere.
Can it do full PS2 games do we think? If it could that'd be epic beans... GT4 anyone? Yes please.
I'd buy quite a few old PS1, PS2 and PSP games at £1.99 (even a couple I own already, like FFVII) but the chance of Sony being reasonable about something like that is really, really slim.
But then, I can't stand slidey design phones, so I'm not going to be in favour of a slidey PSP either.
As for the PSP Go, I'll not be buying one. I actually like the analog "stick" on my PSP and it looks like this one will be nigh unusable.
it just doesn't look natural
i'm guessing x-mas time but who knows.
I'll definitely be looking to give this a go before buying when it comes out but first impressions are favourable.