New PSP in 2006, with hard drive?

[wraggster]

Well, don’t get too excited because this is just analyst speculation, here. But a report out of Piper Jaffray has Sony releasing a new version of the PSP in mid-2006 — one that includes an internal hard drive. A couple of reasons are given — one, that Sony wants to have something to counter a potential next-gen Game Boy from Nintendo, and two, that Sony wants to expand the multimedia capabilities of the console and go head to head with the iPod. The release could also act as a stopgap until the PS3 finally rolls out. Still, you gotta imagine Sony execs sweating under the collar about giving up that money-fleecing Memory Stick racket, so we’ll be taking all this with that proverbial grain of salt.

This isn’t the first time we’re hearing of a PSP-HDD configuration. Joystiq covered the same speculation from a different analyst in February.

[leggy]

I would imagine that the PSP will eventually produced with a hard drive. It would make a lot of sense for users.

As wraggy says though, Sony would have to have their corporate bollocks clamped in a vice to give up the memory stick racket!

[pspfan]

I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, in fact it would be great if it had a big hard drive so you wouldn't need a bunch of memory sticks, but wouldn't that make it pretty easy to put homebrew and emulation on your PSP if it had a hard drive?

[Greensprout]

wouldn't that make it pretty easy to put homebrew and emulation on your PSP if it had a hard drive?

The firmware has still got to be cracked which is the hard part.
Storing data even now is not a problem.

[slik da relic]

u think the psp's gettin cracked NOW? imagine with a hard drive!!! a baby xbox made by sony...lol

da relic

[RedKing14CA]

LOL, nice da relic!

well, it would be very smart to get hard drives in the sizes of lets say a 512mb psp for 319.99 or a 5gb psp for 499.99.. however it would be smart to ALSO keep the memstick slot, and maybe come out with a pro to duo adapter!

[chrisvenn]

I bet if they did release one with a hard drive they would somehow stop us from installing homebrew and emu's onto the inbuilt harddive. Like the firmware it came with would have all the loopholes closed

[zackforbing]

ha, that'd be a pretty tall order. seeing as how they can't know what the loopholes are until someone finds one.

a 5GB PSP for $500? are you NUTS? they'd only do that if they wanted it to fail miserably. Jesus Christ, a PS3 probably won't even be that much.

[killakirby]

wow... people would be mad. what will the older psp's be worth?

[TheShiznit]

delteted