PSPgo Confirmation Leaked Early
Plenty of details have been spilled three days early, from software to specs, and it all came from... wait, Sony? Yep, right on PlayStation Store. Someone is so fired. Details inside.
Published: May 30, 2009
Everyone screws up from time to time. Maybe you call someone you haven't seen in a while by the wrong name. Maybe you use some body wash as shampoo accidentally while in the shower. Leaking one of the bigger hardware reveals of next week's press conferences, though? Naw, that's a major screw up. Even more forehead-slappingly bad? Every person that has a Qore subscription can download the newest issue that has a full blowout on what the system is like, some of it's core (har har) features and even some of the software.
Curious about the details? Here's what we know by way of Qore host Ms. Veronica Belmont and SCEA's Director of Hardware Marketing, John Koller:
[Specs]
-43% lighter than the PSP-3000
-16GB of built-in flash memory.
-Memory Stick Micro slot for expanded storage
-3.8" Slide-up screen, which reveals the standard analog nub, d-pad and face buttons
-No touch screen, and what's here is actually half an inch smaller diagonally than the standard PSP screen
-No UMD slot
-Bluetooth support for pairing headsets (like, say, the official PS3 one)
[Software]
-Gran Turismo Mobile
-Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier
-LittleBigPlanet
-Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops 2?
In short, the PSP go is quite literally the half step up that Nintendo took with the DSi (or perhaps more accurately the minor improvements Apple takes with their iterations), but it's not meant to be a replacement for the traditional UMD-based systems. Instead, it's essentially a platform for the increased role of digital distribution that Sony is moving into (albeit slowly). There's already been a shift to delivering PSP games as a download-only option (just look at Patapon 2 as an example of things to come), and the PSP go is essentially their marquee platform for delivering those games without needing to ever go into a store again.
It's an interesting prospect, and one we'll no doubt learn more about in the next few days. Plenty of questions are still out there, and there's room for quite a bit o' weekend speculation. Will the Bluetooth addition allow DualShock 3s to be used in games that support PSP Plus (such as with Resistance Retribution, but minus the USB cable)? Will it be used to link up the PS3 and PSP in more interesting ways? How many games will the PlayStation Store on the PSP have available when the system launches in Fall of this year, considering it's a pure digital distribution platform?
With Sony's E3 press conference kicking off at 11AM next Tuesday, we'll likely have plenty of these questions answered very, very soon. Check back then!
Curious about the details? Here's what we know by way of Qore host Ms. Veronica Belmont and SCEA's Director of Hardware Marketing, John Koller:
[Specs]
-43% lighter than the PSP-3000
-16GB of built-in flash memory.
-Memory Stick Micro slot for expanded storage
-3.8" Slide-up screen, which reveals the standard analog nub, d-pad and face buttons
-No touch screen, and what's here is actually half an inch smaller diagonally than the standard PSP screen
-No UMD slot
-Bluetooth support for pairing headsets (like, say, the official PS3 one)
[Software]
-Gran Turismo Mobile
-Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier
-LittleBigPlanet
-Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops 2?
In short, the PSP go is quite literally the half step up that Nintendo took with the DSi (or perhaps more accurately the minor improvements Apple takes with their iterations), but it's not meant to be a replacement for the traditional UMD-based systems. Instead, it's essentially a platform for the increased role of digital distribution that Sony is moving into (albeit slowly). There's already been a shift to delivering PSP games as a download-only option (just look at Patapon 2 as an example of things to come), and the PSP go is essentially their marquee platform for delivering those games without needing to ever go into a store again.
It's an interesting prospect, and one we'll no doubt learn more about in the next few days. Plenty of questions are still out there, and there's room for quite a bit o' weekend speculation. Will the Bluetooth addition allow DualShock 3s to be used in games that support PSP Plus (such as with Resistance Retribution, but minus the USB cable)? Will it be used to link up the PS3 and PSP in more interesting ways? How many games will the PlayStation Store on the PSP have available when the system launches in Fall of this year, considering it's a pure digital distribution platform?
With Sony's E3 press conference kicking off at 11AM next Tuesday, we'll likely have plenty of these questions answered very, very soon. Check back then!
