PSP Redesign Coming In 2007?
Let’s face it, the PSP is loosing big time to the DS, and Sony hasn’t responded quickly enough. Now, according to scans from the October issue of PlayStation Magazine, Sony is working on a redesign of the PSP, scheduled for release in March 2007.
Rather than just lowering the price to better compete with the DS, Sony will keep the current price point, but update the PSP with 8 GB of flash disk storage (instead of the current 32 MB). The new version will also sport a retooled UMD drive, and will also feature integrated EyeToy functionality.
A PSP with 8 GB storage capacity would be a bargain at $200. Memory chips of that size are quite expensive, and I doubt prices will be low enough for Sony to keep the current price tag. Perhaps Sony should focus on making some quality games for the system, instead of making a redesign? Unless they’re trying to pull off what Nintendo did with the DS Lite.
August 31st, 2006 at 11:52 pm
So I’ll be able to store more movies on it. Big deal.
Add more memory, but keep the same freakin’ games!!??
September 1st, 2006 at 4:58 am
I dont think this is going to happend Sony only realeses one Redesign
per generation. it happend when the PSX,PS2 and im sure PSP will follow.
I mean they are not nintendo which like to milk the crap of their fanbase by realising one new desing each year.
2003 – gameboy advance sp
2004 – nintendo ds-
2005 – gameboy micro.
20006 – n-ds lite
2007 – ??????.
Geez i wonder if nintendo will realese n-ds micro lite in 2007?
i bet they will.
September 1st, 2006 at 11:25 am
Shaka
Nintendo DS (phat) was not a re-release, but a completely new console.
“I mean they are not nintendo which like to milk the crap of their fanbase by realising one new desing each year.”
Just a reminder Shaka. Nintendo has never redesigned their stationary consoles, unlike Sony with both Playstation One and 2. And Gameboy Advance is Nintendo’s only portable console to have more than one redesign. Micro is their second redesign. By redesigning portables, they become easier to carry around. But redesigning a stationary seems to me much more like milking their fanbase than what Nintendo does with the portables. And what IF Sony releases a new PSP. Are you gonna eat your own words then? Be careful what you say. Fanboyism is not famous to make people think clearly
September 1st, 2006 at 9:58 pm
nintendo didnt just do this for the gba is also did it for the original gameboy remenber gameboy then year later gameboy pocket then year later game boy color ect. and god knows what else they release that didnt took off much like the micro which has been a complete failiture.
September 1st, 2006 at 10:22 pm
A PSP with 8 gigs of flash would be the only way I’d get one, and only once you can exploit it.
September 1st, 2006 at 11:36 pm
Hopefully with the coming of this ‘PSP2′, so to speak, we’ll see a better list of game titles- hopefully.
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:00 am
Great…PSPs with 8 gigs. I just wish Sony got it right the first time. This means I’ll have to trade in my current PSP for a new one.
Sigh…
September 2nd, 2006 at 2:26 am
Thats what alot of people who onwed a n-ds did when they saw the new nd-lite trade it in for a new one and thats one of the reason the n-ds liste i selling good most of the people who buy it are just re-saling their fat n-ds and buying the new one.