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Sony Rejects PSP2 Speculation
Sony has rejected claims that a true successor to the PSP is in the pipeline.
Just days ago, a leak from an anonymous publishing source led to widespread media reports suggesting that Sony was looking to bring both a new iteration of the PSP to the market – said to be called the PSP 4000 – as well as a new handheld entirely further down the line.
Yet Sony’s director of hardware marketing, John Koller, has explained that the reports have misinterpreted Sony’s newly-announced policy of focusing developers away from Universal Media Discs and towards digital distribution. He tells Silicon Alley Insider that “no plans for a PSP2 are underway.”
The article does not clarify if Koller was approached on the subject of the rumoured PSP 4000, a handheld which could be a key propagator in Sony’s apparent push for online distribution over UMDs, if it indeed exists at all.
Edge has contacted Sony for comment on the matter.
Source via Kotaku
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I have mixed feelings about Sony's decision to remake the PSP slim so many times in such short period of time, but I guess they know what they are doing, desperate times/measures? Everyone's centered on the so called competition between Sony and Nintendo, that game makers, as well as Sony themselves are taking measures to revitalize the PSP. There's nothing wrong with the PSP guys, it is the greatest handheld system out there, as it is. Nintendo DS, also the greatest handheld system, as is. There is some competition out there but if I were Sony, I wouldn't worry too much about Nintendo, I would worry about Microsoft's Xbox. I own the PSP slim as well as the Nintendo DS, and I can honestly say, even tho they are both portable handhelds they work different from one another, so there is really no competition from that point of view. So the idea of discontinuing or even making rumors that PSP will discontinue or, even game makers not making games for the PSP because of their wanting to join Nintendo is ridiculous. Even the Nintendo Wii works different from the PS3. So in my opinion, if a customer gets the Wii, they wouldn't be complete unless they get either the PS3 or the Xbox2.
If one gets the Nin-DS, one wouldn't be complete unless they also got the PSP(psst Sony-thankfully no Xbox portable has been made) They just work different, and even tho they are both "competing" they have noticeable different purposes at work.
Ditto Dan. I think the lack of games is what is holding me off of the PSP. I think as a PMP, the PSP is only bested by Apple products. I would love an improved PSP with a 3000-like screen without the interlacing issue.
Shame.. I'm holding off buying a PSP until they launch a new model. The PSP 3000 screen interlacing debarcle has put me off that one... Maybe Sony will be focusing on a PSP phone to challenge the iphone. Maybe they are not telling porkies when they out right deny a new PSP. Maybe it's going to be a PSPhone.....