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Breaking: Sony UK boss confirms PSP redesign

I wonder if this new redesign will include dual screens and a touch screen. Sony needs anything to help stop the suck with that poor hand held.
 
NeonBlade said:
I wonder if this new redesign will include dual screens and a touch screen. Sony needs anything to help stop the suck with that poor hand held.
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:lol Wow.

As for the story, who didn't expect it to happen? Everyone knew it was coming.
 
NeonBlade said:
I wonder if this new redesign will include dual screens and a touch screen. Sony needs anything to help stop the suck with that poor hand held.
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Yeah, all those killer games on the PSP failed and were so terrible because they didn't have touch components in them. I mean how am I supposed to enjoy UGnG if I can't control it with touch components?

Crush, unplayable confirmed due to lack of dual screen and touch component

:rolls eyes so hard they explode into a fine mist which coalesces into a middle finger:
 
lancubap said:
PSP Lite is coming guys. But when ? It seems something in the long term.....
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I don't think this is a confirmation of specific plans -- it reads like an endorsement of the general principle that selling cheaper, smaller, redesigned hardware is something Sony likes to do. These kinds of comments are no-brainers, but are also irresponsible. If this gets widely reported as "PSP redesigned confirmed," it's going to be a nasty version of the Osborne effect for Sony.

There are a couple of problems with applying the Nintendo-perfected model of periodic releases that progressively refine annoyances from previous versions to the PSP. For one, Nintendo likes to get people who own earlier-generation hardware to rebuy newer revisions. In this case, I'm not sure the PSP userbase is large enough to see huge proceeds from existing PSP owners who would enjoy the new features. If price really is the sticking point for most people, a redesign would have to both improve the design AND come in cheaper for this to make a huge difference. Frankly, if the redesign is going to be $199 or more, Sony should consider a price cut now to get more people into the system and then hope that the enhanced model will entice people back to the higher price point.
 
NeonBlade said:
I wonder if this new redesign will include dual screens and a touch screen. Sony needs anything to help stop the suck with that poor hand held.
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Thanks for posting this...now I can use it as a reminder to people. Watch the trolling in this thread!
 
lancubap said:
PSP Lite is coming guys. But when ? It seems something in the long term.....
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Have not read the thread posts but if it was coming out "in the long term" it would be very stupid of Sony to confirm a redisign now, because a lot of people will hold out on buying a system that will get a redesign (and likely a pricedrop for the older model).
 
-jinx- said:
I don't think this is a confirmation of specific plans -- it reads like an endorsement of the general principle that selling cheaper, smaller, redesigned hardware is something Sony likes to do. These kinds of comments are no-brainers, but are also irresponsible. If this gets widely reported as "PSP redesigned confirmed," it's going to be a nasty version of the Osborne effect for Sony.

There are a couple of problems with applying the Nintendo-perfected model of periodic releases that progressively refine annoyances from previous versions to the PSP. For one, Nintendo likes to get people who own earlier-generation hardware to rebuy newer revisions. In this case, I'm not sure the PSP userbase is large enough to see huge proceeds from existing PSP owners who would enjoy the new features. If price really is the sticking point for most people, a redesign would have to both improve the design AND come in cheaper for this to make a huge difference. Frankly, if the redesign is going to be $199 or more, Sony should consider a price cut now to get more people into the system and then hope that the enhanced model will entice people back to the higher price point.
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I think you nailed it like a resentful marine with syphilis, to an overweight blind retarded vietnamese prostitute

(Yeah, I know I have a weird sense of humour)
 
psychodoodle said:
I think you nailed it like a resentful marine with syphilis, to an overweight blind retarded vietnamese prostitute

(Yeah, I know I have a weird sense of humour)
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you also had two punchlines
 
i would imagine flash memory would be added, but what else? i mean, i think its pretty much perfectly designed the way it is. except for a second analog.
 
Ranger X said:
Hey guys, there's a PS3 redesign coming in the future.
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Really? I should hold off on buying the PS3 then. The redesigned PS3 can be released any day now. I'm expecting it to be announced this E3, and if it is not, I'll still hold off on buying a new PS3. In the mean time, I'll periodically pop into various PS3 threads and off-handedly state that I'm waiting for the PS3 redesign and others would do well to follow my lead.
 
OMG NO WAY! Here is a bet: 6 years from now we'll be playing PSthree. And I don't really thing that you need to get that confirmed by someone in the company. :lol
 
Firmware 3.10-A has started a PSP revivial in my house, I can't believe how well some of the classic PSX RPG's have aged or how good they look shrunk down to fit the PSP screen. Xenogears is pwning my free time right now - if the redesign doesn't support custom firmwares then it will have to offer something VERY special to make me consider letting go of my current PSP.
 
Aisenherz said:
:lol :lol Home? HOME is a copy? Of what? Mii, Live? Just STFU!
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7Th said:
Of Second Life.
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...Which is a copy of The Sims and EverQuest. And that old 2D icon-based version of AIM (though I don't think it was AIM that did it.) And also another variation of a genre that has been huge in Korea and other parts of the world (and even in certain communities, anybody remember the S&M MMO a few years back?) and just hasn't been big in America or Europe. And also just a 3D version of community and RPG-type features that the internet are founded on (with some "virtual item" digital purchasing thrown in for fun).

Home isn't a copy of anything. It's an evolution of the internet.

Sgt. Killjoy said:
i would imagine flash memory would be added, but what else? i mean, i think its pretty much perfectly designed the way it is. except for a second analog.
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I'm not seeing Tilt Controller in the rumored feature set, and it's making me VERY nervous. This system needs tilt, it'd be so good for it. It'd solve many of the camera problems, it'd bring it in synch with what's going on with PS3, and it could be backward-compatible with older PSP models (just sell or pack in a tilt USB add-on and away you go.)

I would also like to see the Camera built in (if they have any gameplay ideas for it, but if the Japanese release is anything to go by, leave it as just an accessory), and maybe some other niceties would be good. The Flash RAM would be nice and I would like to see it move towards a downloadable-game business (damned UMDs did nothing good for gaming other than allow GTA to be ported), but I don't see many being happy about being restricted to downloads and also being confused about what to do with too many downloaded games (no matter how big the save space.) Maybe add bluetooth so it can synch to PS3 without a cord (but leave in the option.) A screen that doesn't scratch would be nice too. Overall, I want it to be the same (and I don't want a PSP2 this early, it'd kill everything Sony worked for to make an ugly move like that after peacocking around with a system that still could not stand up to the dominant powers of a Nintendo-controlled handheld business), but some changes are due for this system, especially since Nintendo took everything wrong with the first DS and fixed it in the first damned year. It'd be really easy to make a cleaner and tighter PSP without segmenting the market, and I don't know why Sony is being hesitant about changing the small details -- this would be just a little touch-up, not some GB-to-GBC change, it wouldn't even be as drastic as PS1 pad-to-DualShock.
 
CamHostage said:
I'm not seeing Tilt Controller in the rumored feature set, and it's making me VERY nervous. This system needs tilt, it'd be so good for it. It'd solve many of the camera problems, it'd bring it in synch with what's going on with PS3, and it could be backward-compatible with older PSP models (just sell or pack in a tilt USB add-on and away you go.)

I would also like to see the Camera built in (if they have any gameplay ideas for it, but if the Japanese release is anything to go by, leave it as just an accessory), and maybe some other niceties would be good. The Flash RAM would be nice and I would like to see it move towards a downloadable-game business (damned UMDs did nothing good for gaming other than allow GTA to be ported), but I don't see many being happy about being restricted to downloads and also being confused about what to do with too many downloaded games (no matter how big the save space.) Maybe add bluetooth so it can synch to PS3 without a cord (but leave in the option.) A screen that doesn't scratch would be nice too. Overall, I want it to be the same (and I don't want a PSP2 this early, it'd kill everything Sony worked for to make an ugly move like that after peacocking around with a system that still could not stand up to the dominant powers of a Nintendo-controlled handheld business), but some changes are due for this system, especially since Nintendo took everything wrong with the first DS and fixed it in the first damned year. It'd be really easy to make a cleaner and tighter PSP without segmenting the market, and I don't know why Sony is being hesitant about changing the small details -- this would be just a little touch-up, not some GB-to-GBC change, it wouldn't even be as drastic as PS1 pad-to-DualShock.
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im confused, you talk about wanting tilt control and a camera, yet, you just want minor tweaks in the design?
 
Pimpwerx said:
-Better screen? Are you really gonna pay extra for another screen that has the same ghosting problems,but to a slightly less degree? All LCDs ghost, it's just a matter of how much.
The screen size must remain the same since it's so damn nice. A brighter screen? Is that even possible without a mobile generator?
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OLED screens pretty much eliminate ghosting, are brighter, using less power and take up less space (thinner, could leave space for something else, maybe touchpad).

Might be pricy at first (but then so would an improved LCD) - but Sony could very well drop price on current model and position this one at a premium.
 
Parallax said:
im confused, you talk about wanting tilt control and a camera, yet, you just want minor tweaks in the design?
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Well, what I want is a system that doesn't make the old system moot. Tilt and camera could be added by plug-ins; tilt maybe even in a game pack-in. I want a better PSP, not a new PSP2, because even if Sony does something amazing with PSP2, I think it'll be hard for any of us to care if we've been burned the first time and are still enjoying our DSes just fine.

mj1108 said:
So handheld redesigns are now cool that Sony is doing one?
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Not everything's a conspiracy to try to steal Nintendo's thunder. A good number of of major system have seen a re-design some time in their lives, including NES, PSone, PStwo, Game Boy Advance (three times), and even DS. (And wasn't DS Lite in its first year? That system came out crazy fast.)
 
PSP: Something Happening Soon

A price drop? A redesign? Something is about to happen.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3158013

Something needs to happen with the PSP, ASAP.

That's the message retailers have, according to our sources, sent Sony. With sales of the PSP lagging (Sony's PSP hardware shipments to retailers last Fall were down 72 percent over the year before, only a meager 10,000 units in the U.S.), word is that a few big name retailers have given Sony a mandate: drop the price or they'll drop the system from their stores. Entirely. With shelf space at a premium, the expectation is for Sony to do something substantial to keep its hardware moving -- or else.

Coming up on the second anniversary of the PSP (March 24th), a price drop seems possible -- after all, the price was lowered by $50 two days before its first anniversary last year. But according to Sony, that's not yet in the cards. Speaking with John Koller, the Senior Marketing Manager for the PSP, at the Game Developers Conference last week, 1UP learned that a price drop was not announced to retailers at Sony's Destination PlayStation retailer event last week.

But something else was.

According to Koller, Sony did share plans that got retailers excited. Of course, what these plans were exactly, he wouldn't say. Could they be new PSP colors that have been previously shown and released in Japan and Europe? Or could they be the redesigned PSP with 8 GB of flash memory that's been rumored for ages? Or could they be the launch of some new PSP video/music download service? We'll likely have to wait a few more weeks to find out.

And whether it's coming soon or later down the road, a redesign for the PSP is in the works. According to Koller, Sony is in the process of reducing parts and potentially adjusting the size -- similar to what's been done with the PS1 and PS2. "I can at least say this much, the screen won't be changing in size," he said.

It seems that Sony hopes to repeat the success Apple has had with the iPod's pricing structure -- thanks to new colors and models, the iPod's price has largely remained the same over the years. Koller also admitted that Sony paid close attention to the spark in sales the DS Lite iteration of the Nintendo DS caused once it released.

One thing is clear, though: something will happen with the PSP soon. Now, we just need to wait.
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CamHostage said:
...Which is a copy of The Sims and EverQuest. And that old 2D icon-based version of AIM (though I don't think it was AIM that did it.)
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Second Life is more of a graphical MUSH, methinks :b
 
I don't see much value in a redesign since it'll be unlikely you'll be able to get custom firmware on it, and it's the custom firmware that makes PSP so ball bustingly awesome.
 
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Widescreen, Dual Screen, Touch Screen. Dual Analogue Nubs.
 
Darn it I want my own PSP so I can stop holding my friends hostage. If I buy one now I'll kick myself if a new model comes out. Guess I can always get a replacement plan and say its broke when the new one comes.
 
MoxManiac said:
I don't see much value in a redesign since it'll be unlikely you'll be able to get custom firmware on it, and it's the custom firmware that makes PSP so ball bustingly awesome.
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For the niche consumer that actually knows how to put custom firmware on the PSP, yes. But if Sony releases a redesigned PSP with flash memory AND puts up hundreds of PSOne titles on the PSN for $5 a pop as well as allowing downloadable PSP designed games, it could be killer.
 
I bought mine over Christmas, man!! WTH!?! The redesign better be jsut cosmetic stuff and nothing that will mean PSP games only for the new model.
 
M3Freak said:
I bought mine over Christmas, man!! WTH!?! The redesign better be jsut cosmetic stuff and nothing that will mean PSP games only for the new model.
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That would be a PSP2. This is confirmed to be a redesign.
 
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