PSP-3000 reference discovered on PlayStation website

[wraggster]

via pspfanboy

On its online instruction manuals, Sony Computer Entertainment has a few images for use as labels. There's one for the original PSP-1000 series, and another for the current PSP-2000 series. However, curiously there's also a placeholder image for the logical next-step: the PSP-3000 series.

The availability of the PSP-3000 image on the PlayStation site shouldn't come as a signal that a redesign is impending -- it's clear that Sony plans on revising the hardware through its supposed ten year life cycle. However, it does seem to display a bit too much forethought from the web designers that created and uploaded this image. How long will it take before we hear rumblings of yet another PSP redesign?

http://manuals.playstation.net/do$#@!...mg/in_3000.gif

[-Xandu-]

Maybe it's just a typo?

[acn010]

who knows.. hope it has bluetooth.. then ill be crazy...also a higher processor... sweet

[No_one_in_particular]

Maybe it's just a typo?

It's a .gif though, and to have a misspelled filename aswell? They'd notice it surely? Can't really see why this is a discovery; they've made it painfully obvious there'll be a 3000 series sometime in the future.

[F9zDark]

Since when does the PSP have a ten year life cycle? Sorry, but this 10 year plan is for the PS3 and was never said by anyone from Sony to be part of their plan with the PSP...

[MicroNut]

Since when does the PSP have a ten year life cycle? Sorry, but this 10 year plan is for the PS3 and was never said by anyone from Sony to be part of their plan with the PSP...

Read this: PSP Anniversary Interview

IGN: Okay, great. What's the lifecycle on the PSP going to be? Is it going to be in line with the console where you're talking a five or six year cycle, or is it something different in the handheld space?

John Koller: I'm going to parse that question a little bit. We've talked about the PSP being a 10 year product, but a 10 year product in the continued... how can I put this... in the continued lifecycle, so we obviously had the 1000, we have the 2000, so the PSP as it was first launched in March 2005 isn't going to the be the PSP that it ends up as in 10 years, but it will still be a very strong portable gaming device that is centered in gaming and has a lot of multi-functional features.

[ab88]

I'm guessing it's just something the web designer thought would be nice to have. Justin case/for when they push out a new model.

Not an error tho, they are even different colors and stuff. But I just don't see how the page graphics guy would have access to that kind of info, so I would assume that in no way this proves anything..

[XiNoID]

maybe it is a 1st April's joke?

[Cloudhunter]

This is no surprise to me, they are working on a "3g" PSP, as firmware investigators (SilverSpring) have found out. For those that don't know, PSP-1000 is 1g, PSP-2000 (slim) is 2g, so it makes sense that 3g will be PSP-3000.

Cloudy

[ab88]

One could almost say it kind of goes with the PSPhone rumors. Since it would have to be a hardware revision.

Although it could be some small modification that needs it's own drivers (New UMD Drive, faster memory card reader, etc..)

btw: wasn't it Mathieulh that posted about it?