The new PSP rumoured to be unveiled at E3 this year won’t be the PSP2 or PSP-4000, but something much more left field, according to new tittle-tattle. Want to know what’s in and what’s out of this mysterious new PSP? Read on…
We’ve heard before about a Sony PSP2 device, a next-gen handheld console that will reportedly dispense with the much-maligned UMD drive and focus more on downloadable content. Well, now an insider source says it’s coming very soon – and has been designed to smash Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch into a million tiny pieces.
The Sony PSP2, Sony’s successor to its handheld multimedia console, almost certainly won’t feature a disc drive for retail games. Dave Perry, respected videogames industry veteran and Chief Creative Officer at Acclaim, had already said the PSP2 wouldn’t feature a UMD disc drive. But Sony has, until now, denied this. Now it has edged closer than ever before to admitting the “stupid battery-sucking” drive (as Perry put it) is out.
The PSP2 is totally on its way. Probably. Whatever happens, it’s creating a bit of a spat between Sony and PSP2 whistle-blower Dave Perry, creator of Earthworm Jim, founder of Shiny Entertainment and currently Chief Creative Officer at Acclaim. Sony man John Koller dismissed Perry’s statements claiming he “didn’t even know who the guy was until a month ago.”