Sony's widely-rumoured PSP Go will be released this autumn, according to SCEA’s director of hardware marketing, John Koller.
Speaking in the June edition of monthly gaming show Qore, which was prematurely released on the US PlayStation Network before being recorded and posted online by viewers, Koller talked up the new handheld's specifications, Sony’s downloadable content strategy and new PSP titles.
"It has a 3.8-inch screen, it's 43 percent lighter than the PSP-3000, [it has] 16 gigs flash memory, Bluetooth support and all digital content so the UMD drive goes away, so it's going to be, I think, something a lot of consumers are going to really like - download straight to a hard drive," he said.
"There are games like Gran Turismo that are being announced at E3, LittleBigPlanet we announced before and Jak & Daxter, and there's even a new Metal Gear Solid coming, so all of those games will be available. But then there are movies… that you can rent or buy through the PlayStation Network and TV shows, so you can bring so much content over with you and fill it up with that 16GB flash memory.
"A lot of people like to be able to take their content from PS3 with them on the go," Koller added. "We always look to push innovation. For us we wanted to get into digital and really meet the needs of our consumers. More and more consumers are going online to purchase music and they’re starting to purchase games and they’re purchasing some movies. We always want to be ahead of that curve.”
Koller, who said Sony has decided to pursue “a shared strategy” between hard media and downloadable content, also noted that the company looks at each of its products “as ten-year lifecycle products” and that the PSP-3000 will remain on the market following PSP Go’s release this “autumn.”
Further PSP Go details, perhaps including pricing, are expected to be announced on Tuesday at Sony’s E3 press conference.
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