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Future PSP Plans??

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http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3172297

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Poll May Reveal Future PSP Plans

Trophies, Home, and more could come to the PSP.

By Steve Watts, 01/15/2009


PSP Fanboy reports that a Sony consumer survey may hint at future plans for the PlayStation Portable. While most of the poll responses are fairly standard, asking if people want better battery life or faster load times, a few stand out. Questions involving a touch screen, GPS navigation, a music download service, and Internet access from anywhere hint at Sony having its eye on competing with the burgeoning iPhone success. Other questions, asking about interest in Friends lists, Home and chat functions, and Trophy support, all imply that they may be seeking to further link the PlayStation 3 and its little portable sibling.
Many of the specs would involve new hardware, and while Sony has recently denied rumors of a PSP2, there's no reason these couldn't be coming with the next upgraded models. The PSP-2000 and 3000 have proven Sony is no stranger to hardware revisions. The other features could come with a simple firmware upgrade, especially since the PSP can already share logins with the PlayStation 3. Of course, a poll doesn't guarantee that these features actually are coming, it simply gauges public interest. If the pollsters respond particularly strongly to a feature, it's a likelihood it will happen, but otherwise don't take this as a confirmed upcoming feature set.
Intresting looking questions.
post #2 of 11
I like that new ideas for the new PSP. I have yet to buy a mobile gaming device though.
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I sold my DS, I am not sure if I am going to pickup a PSP.
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I have had 3 PSP's

The first two I used but eventually sold to guys going over seas, the last one I modded to connect to my home comp and ran homebrew stuff. Pretty fun but just not enough. It was a decent browser and playing the games was ok (needs two analog sticks) but I wont pick up another one until they come up with a new design.
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That is something I thought was weird, no question about a second analog stick on the PSP
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you can already access the Playstation Store from the PSP, and they added a chat function too but people rarely used it so theyre shutting it back off soon
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I like my PSP but I very rarely use it. Mostly when I travel. The 8 Gig memory sticks have added value to the system BUT what I would really like to see is an internal Hard Drive....
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32 gb SDHC would suffice for me(no umd), well that and a second analog!!!!!

But u know we never get what we'z wants.... (lake a black m15x cough) haha




So Im sure even if another release comes down the pipes its just a pipe dream. Although that slide screen psp2 concept drawing thats been floating for around for a couple years now looks to be the shit!!! I do see a problem, it would be top heavy and uncomfortable to hold/play, make that same design where the controls slide out 1/2 way on both sides and u have the pimp of all that is pimp in portable gaming.

But you know Sony...."We made the PS3 hard to program for on purpose...." *cough losing console war bullsh!t cough* prolly wont be able to bring to market such a beast.....
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Now we are Talking!!!!

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And the winner is.....
post #11 of 11
Yes I forgot about the second analogue, thats also on my wishlist....
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