Once they hack it, I'll jump on it.

How did it get better? Not being sarcastic, actually asking. Did it get flash memory? Is it more ergonomic?

Actually the original DS was an ergonomic mess and they made it MORE of an ergonomic mess. Also, I didn't see anything about flash memory, which would have been nice. Without more memory, where is all this HD content going?

It hurts my hands, the DS Lite. The DS Phat hurt my hands less. The 360 controller doesn't hurt them at all. I may have issues, but that doesn't make my point completely invalid.

I suppose. I just don't see it as that big of a change, then, I suppose.

For most the DS LIte is a much better model (than Phat DS) judging by reviews and sales numbers since the revision.

The PSP revision doesn't sound terribly exciting, but maybe it will once I see it and hear more about it.

IT's seems a little too late in more than one way tho. UMDs already bombed afaik so who cares if I can watch them on my TV now? Plus are they going to look good on my TV anyway compared to DVD?

The DS Lite's success has started a wave of 3rd parties that maybe would have gone PSP before. BIA and CoD along with Sim City and Civilization to name a few recent releases and upcoming ones. So the PSP revision is a bit late there as well.

Faster load times and better battery life are great. We'll see what better actually means in the real world soon I suppose. 10% improvements won't be terribly persuading.

Sharing photos on the TV? Yawn. Play your PS2, er I mean PSP on your TV? Might as well boot up your PS2 then. OK could be alright, but if you're doing it alot then you bought the wrong piece of hardware. Connect to PS3/pc over internet? Yeah I'm sure I would be doing that alot. Not.

All in all it seems a little too late with new features that have limited appeal. Not to say the revision is bad. It's surely better than the existing PSP, but just doesn't sound exciting at this stage.

Could you link the article please?

EDIT:
This one? Where does it say the unit will have faster load and longer battery life?

IAWTC.

None of the revisions scream "repurchase" to me. It's saying "Hey, I'm here now so don't go out and buy the obsolete one."

Even so, I can't stop staring at the silver one. It's taunting me... like the silver DS lite. :/

There are some people who wouldn't buy a PSP even if it made gold coins fall out of their butt, so of course none of this matters to them. But seriously... as an upgrade to an existing piece of hardware, this is pretty decent. What did people expect?

We don't know how much this will or will not affect sales of the PSP yet.

"bombed" or not, sales of movie UMDs increased 35% from 2005-2006. How good are they going to look? Who knows. I don't know the resolution they offer, but that doesn't seem to stop people from buying downloads for the apple TV or iPods to play on their TVs. The point of this is simply that people bitched about the UMD movie format because you couldn't play the discs at home, and now that you CAN play them at home, people STILL complain. It's a nice added feature, regardless.

not sure of your point here. No one, especially not Nintendo, could have guessed the Lite would have sold as well as it did. Dropping the price of the PSP to $169 saw a large boost in sales, and this might also drive more sales (and further reduces the cost to produce the machine). If sales go through the roof, I'm sure we'll see more developers scrambling to put out more games (although anyone who says there are "no good games" for the PSP doesn't know what theyre talking about anyway).

yeah, it would be so lame to be able to stream video content from my home PC to my PSP plugged into a TV in a hotel room or something... YAWN. Sheesh, come on here... whether you use it or not, it's still a neat added feature you're getting for free over the older model.

Looking at some other pictures, here are a few other changes in the PSP:

-no IR port anymore
-Speakers are now on each swide of the side of the screen, instead of on the bottom
-no spring load on the UMD slot... pull to open/push to close
-WIFI switch now on the top where the UMD spring load switch used to be
-UMD game data will be cached on the PSP to speed up gameplay/loading

here's a very short video of a hands-on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn_ku9nmA8U

No, that makes your point only valid to you, and completely invalid to everyone else with different hands.

The new version also has 64MB of internal memory and can accept charging through the USB port. I'll probably get one when it comes out or shortly thereafter and just keep my current one for homebrew. One other note if you look at this super high resolution pic it looks like the finish on the black is much more matte then the old shiny one. This should help keep the fingerprints down which is cool. My only gripe is I wish they included bluetooth, I would love to be able to use wireless headphones with the psp.

I can confirm that my personal UMD purchasing doubled over the last year, of course that's only if you include the free spider man umd I got with the psp as a purchase. And you know why? Becuase I found a movie that I wanted to see for $5. So I suspect that is why the sales have increased. At one point sony mentioned having versions of movies that included a DVD and UMD for a slight increase. Now that is something I would have bought a ton of if they had done it, but at full price it never made sense.

But we already knew that wasn't going to happen...

to YOU it's useless, and that's probably your whole point. But the vast majority of buyers don't know how to rip a DVD to a memory stick, and so if you BUY one of these movies, being able to play it at home would definitely be a plus. And for me, being able to play my games at home is a great plus... I can play it in the can, in my bed, on the bus, then if I still want to play, I can hook it up to my TV. Like I said, thise has been done many times before (the SNES gameboy player, the Gamecube GBA player, etc.).

Regardless of Sony's plans for the future (See recent article about finding a bootloader in the PSP firmware, seeming to point to downloadable game content), if they get rid of the UMD drive, they essentially make all of the already existing software useless. There's nothing to stop them from offering memstick downloads, though. Best of both worlds.

That's just one example. Want more? Ok... streaming your entire MP3 collection when you're at work/school/a friend's house/a party, same thing with videos. Hell, you could even use it to stream songs from your laptop to your home stereo. Lame? It sounds pretty interesting to me.

Fine. What are we arguing about, then?

IT's lame. I say this because I know how much features like this actually get used. They get used once.

Besides you can fit your MP3 collection on a memory stick anyway or at least a good enough chunk of it. I mean are you going to be at work/school/party for 2 weeks straight listening to music 24/7? No. Using a memory stick is way less hassle than to monkey with this 'feature.' No doubt you already have mp3s on a memory stick too.

Well I think it's useless to most people given that UMD has bombed. That's my point. IF you're a UMD aficionado then sure. Then this 'watch your UMDs on your TV' feature is your best friend. OTherwise for most people.....yawn.

I don't know. My observation was that it's all a little too late and that the revision, while better, isn't particularly compelling and doesn't really erase some of the more fundamental problems with the PSP.

IT's hard to shake that feeling you're playing PS2 games with worse controls.

The iPod does the portable music/video much better and is much more portable.

Also I think the DS Lite remains the better portable gaming solution.

Sony knows this and that's why they focused their current marketing campaign around 13-17 yr olds that don't have a TV in their room and whose parents are often using the living room TV.

I don't have all the facts yet. I mean load times could be dramatically better and same with battery life. And the 64mb could really help load times too and maybe internet. I am interested to see some reviews when it does hit the street. First impressions tho are that it seems little too late.

did they announce any games worth playing for the PSP? I'm coming up with Rondo of Blood and FFT, and both of those are remakes.

So, this bleeds topics a little, but honestly, the sony cnf was the only thing out of E3 I liked. I sold my PSP on ebay for $150 a while ago, and most of my played out games for about 50 cents on the dollar. The new game lineup (and I just haven't been paying attention, so some of it was new to me) seems really quite interesting, and the lower price and small footprint makes it just that much more palatable to think about re buying around Christmas. Sure, most of the little whizbangery is kind of irrelevant, but since the old PSP was just a LITTLE too big, getting just a LITTLE bit smaller makes a difference, and the new games/load time stuff seems like it brings it back into contention for me.

And for the record, Matt, in spite of your slightly over the top defensiveness, I'm not arguing with you. I just find this underwhelming. I actually like the PSP as a platform. And it was easier on my hands than the DS was, honestly. So if I thought the PSP were worth buying for me, I'd get it. Heck, whenever I see an ad for FFT I have to think long and hard about it.

My problem with it was that it was really bad at 3d, lacking the second analog. It seemed better suited for a multimedia device/puzzle tactics RPG gaming machine. And that machine could have benefited greatly from Sony treating it like an iPod. Add a lot of storage. Sell games over through a video game iTunes and I would have signed up. The model is fine with me on XBLA, I would have gladly done the same with this. But none of that is here. Not the internal memory required to do that. Not the service to deliver the games. Many of us on the PSP message boards, back when I was on those boards, were hoping that UMD would be phased out in favor of flash memory (which would have made it even lighter and stronger) and some kind of attachment to download your UMDs.

Transition away from UMDs and be done with it. Deliver games over the Internet from that point forward and blaze a new path. But they chose instead to ride out this generation on their current success (which isn't anything to sneeze at, of course). We'll see if that works out in the end. Who knows.