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New Sony PSP Coming Out This Year?

by Terrence O'Brien on April 29, 2009 at 01:39 PM

New PSP Coming in June?
If you're tired of all the iPhone and Android rumors, but aren't ready to give up on speculating in general, take a gander at what Sony will supposedly be unveiling at the E3 Expo in June -- a brand-new Sony PSP.

The new portable gaming system will supposedly come in a new form and be free of the dead-end UMD drive. Instead, the PSP _____ ('Slide'? 'Flip'? 'Go'? Pick one.) will have eight or 16 GB of flash memory and rely on downloaded games. According to 1UP, the new PSP will have a rather sizable catalog of over 100 games available at launch. It should be noted, though, that many of those will be previously released PSP games.

Sources claim that the new model will retain the classic PSP's controls: D-pad, analog nub, and the same buttons. There is speculation, however, that the PSP (Let's say, 'Slip.') will borrow the high-resolution touchscreen from the ill-conceived Mylo 2.



The PSP is certainly in desperate need of an update (especially with the newly launched Nintendo DSi racking up the sales), and ditching the UMD format makes plenty of sense to us. We'll just have to wait until E3 in June to find out if the rumored September Japanese and October U.S. launch dates pan out. [From: 1UP, Via: Engadget]

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