It’s always hard to predict how a product will do. You can do all the market research, pour over the numbers and still end up wrong. And though the PSP hasn’t exactly been the hottest item on the market in recent months, it is expected to do better in the coming year. At least, if were are to believe SCEA Director of Hardware Marketing, John Koller.
If you have a love of gadgets that require a USB plug-in, you no doubt have bought a USB hub already. But what do you do when there’s wires poking out all over the place, cluttering up your desk? That’s where the 5-in-1 USB Charging and Data-Sync Cable comes into play.
Check out this extremely limited edition Stella Artois PSP. The PSP with Stella branding was created as a special edition for Fosters employees who are brewing Stella Artois for Australia.
Intel have been holding their annual Developers’ Forum in San Francisco this week, and quite a few prototypes and commercial products have come out to play. Of the former, most exciting seems to be the UrbanMax Tablet PC concept; of the latter, Viliv’s S5 MID and S7 UMPC both promise to crank the netbook market up a gear or two.
That’s probably not what Acer want to hear; the company has snipped pricing off of their Aspire One netbook, presumably remembering (only a little late) that the ultraportables are meant to be cheap. Not far from the shelves, Fujitsu’s Amilo Mini and Dell’s Inspiron 910 continued to leak information, but still no official word from the tongue-tied companies themselves.
It looks like Sony wasn’t kidding when they said the PSP-3000 would have an improved LCD screen. Famitsu posted some photographs of the PSP-2000 and PSP-3000 side by side and you can definitely see a noticeable difference between the two.
Sony have taken the wraps off of the long-awaited PSP-3000, the latest update to their popular handheld games console. Although the name might make it sound like a significant update, the key areas really boil down to a new or at-least altered screen, a built-in microphone and the inclusion of a ‘PS’ button.
Capcom is disputing rumors that it is no longer making games for the PSP. In a statement this morning the video game publisher indicated that new Camcom games for the PSP were still in the works.
Plans for the new PSP-3001 have been revealed by an FCC filing for the device made by Sony this week. Sony requested confidentiality when filing the papers but we did learn a few tidbits about the device.
Sony’s PlayTV, an add-on TV tuner that will turn the PS3 into a PVR, has suffered another setback. Not only has the European release of the device been delayed until September 19th, but Sony has now disclosed that recorded video files will not be transferable to PSP, PC or MemoryStick, contrary to their initial specifications.
If you’re looking to bring a little color to your gaming, Sony has announced a new Madden NFL 09 PSP Entertainment Pack that will come with a new limited edition metallic blue PSP and several other extras.
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