PSP Info From the Sony Conference
Published by Jakanden 3 years, 3 months ago in News, PSP.IGN is posting updates from the Sony Conference that just finished up in Tokyo.
Here are some PSP Specific notes from the conference:
* The PSP userbase is 96% male and Sony views this as a problem. Ideally, the company would like more women to play PSP and Sony looks to widen the system’s appeal to various demographics.
* Starting this fall, the PSP will use RSS channel features. Video and voice-over-IP will release in October in “motion jpg” format. The PSP’s own version of the EyeToy will launch a month earlier in September and the peripheral will feature EyeToy Play and video chat. The camera is sliver and it attaches to the USB port.
* The PSP will also include a GPS receiver with an update rate of once every second with a 40-second fix time from a cold start. Minna no Golf (Hot Shots Golf) will be a GPS launch title.
* Macromedia Flash will be included with a spring Network update.
* Users will be able to boot software directly from their Memory Stick, all official-like this time around (you know what I mean). The first major announcement for use of this will be a series of PSOne games - yes, you will be able to download classic PlayStation titles and play them on your PSP.
* For the US, a “base unit” release will be priced at $199 and will hit stores at the end of March. Presumably, this is a slightly scaled-down package that doesn’t include headphones, the carrying case and so forth, mimicking the cheaper original Japanese release.
* Europe will see a similar package for 199 Euros beginning on March 22nd, so mark your calendars. And for you folks over in Japan (or import lovers), a new white PSP SKU will hit shelves starting April 15th and retail for 19800 Yen (~$168 US).
Sounds like some good stuff is on the way for us PSP owners! Also, as expected, there was a slew of PS3 information announced. For the PS3 information, check out our thread in the forums.
…does this mean they’ll be fixing the web browser’s limited cache issues? Otherwise, what’s the point of having FLASH support if you can’t even load up the web-page the FLASH movie is located on?
…they better start letting us use our MS Pro Duo’s for browser cache…
This is great news! Now we need mroe colors. I agree with the previous posts’ comments about browser cache. I think we also need a browser speed increase too, I am sure that is coming.
I am particularly excited about the video camera and PS1 games, but I already have a 2GB mem stick pro and how much storage are these games going to take up? Will I be abel to create an archive of games on my Mac and load the games I want? We will have to see.
Man after that conference I became more of a sony fanboy :P
Anyone care to guess how many megabytes FF:VII would take up?
How The @$!^ are they gonna sell PSP’s for $168, I bought mine for $250 that can’t be right
didnt japan already reales a white psp
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BEST FIVE THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A PSP
PSP
The company that made this cool item is SONY
You can do alot of stuff with a psp like:
1) First let’s talk about graphics. The graphical power of the PSP is said to be close to that of a Playstation2.
2) The battery time issue is fixable.
3) Music playback.
4) It’s wireless too.
5) Sleep mode.