The New, Smaller PSP

[gdf]

hmm, if it could run h/brew i would be inerested...

[JKKDARK]

Oh Em Gee!!1 I forgot when it was wrong to redesign your machines. Sony's done it with the PS1, PS2, and possibly the PS3, so how are they stealing ideas from Nintendo?

Yes, and what about every other form of technology which has been doing the same thing, becoming smaller.

Cell phones, computer moniters, portable radios, music players, pagers. The list can go on. Not to mention the slimline ps2.

well sony has been making smaller consoles to the original launch one since the ps1 days but i do think it is just copying the ds lite. but hay if they do then the original psp will probs go down in price

Nintendo did it before with the NES and SNES

[stotheamuel]

Nintendo did it before with the NES and SNES

But they don't own the right to make the same product smaller!

Cars have done it for christ's sake!

Everyone loves the blame game with Sony!

Now if they were to call it the "psp-lite" then I would understand.

[JKKDARK]

But they don't own the right to make the same product smaller!

Cars have done it for christ's sake!

Everyone loves the blame game with Sony!

Now if they were to call it the "psp-lite" then I would understand.

Of course, Nintendo don't own the rights, but Nintendo got the ideas.

[Gold Line]

i dont like the way sony is i just dont

[beefypotatoes]

...though the company is sticking with UMD. Don't say you're surprised. This is Sony, after all.

What does this have to do with Sony? If its just a smaller version of the current PSP, of course it would use the same format. Imaging the uproar it would caues from old users if they changed the format.

Also, as others said, Nintendo wasn't the first company to redesign a product to be smaller.

[Basil Zero]

Woot

this is good for those who havent bought a psp yet(of course those who dont know about homebrew)

but anyways, i'm done with portables.

I have both a original PSP and a DSlite

I'm moving to the consoles now...and have my sights over to the Wii...WOOT!!!

[g00gy]

i wont buy another psp unless it has hoembrew and pops support.

[Buddy4point0]

if they leave everything the same size, but trim off the exta material above and below the screen, it will cut off over an inch. then make it thinner and it will be a great size for the poket!

[Exophase]

Almost every console that has ever had any popularity (and some that haven't) has gone through hardware revisions, and they almost always include making the thing smaller. It's not a brilliant innovation, it's common sense in production. Over the years processing improves and eventually you can condense many chips into one smaller one that produces less heat. That means that down the line you can start making smaller versions of the hardware that are also more cost effective.

So to everyone turning this into a company war, seriously, give it a break. It's stupid.

On the other hand, you really can't make the PSP smaller without making the screen smaller. So unless you want PSP to go Gameboy Micro on us, where size becomes a marketting gimick at an obvious cost to useability (it boggles my mind how many people love GBM, for the silliest reasons) then how about Sony leave the PSP at the size it is?

if they leave everything the same size, but trim off the exta material above and below the screen, it will cut off over an inch. then make it thinner and it will be a great size for the poket!

Wait, what? There's 1/4th of an inch above the screen on the top and 3/8ths of an inch at the bottom. That's 5/8ths, just over half an inch, and if you didn't notice there are several buttons at the bottom. There's no room for them anywhere else on the console, not in a place that'd make any kind of sense at least. And there's no room to cut off from either other edge without making the buttons smaller, which would be a huge mistake (and would barely save anything)

There's no extra room to cut anything off. If you want the screen to stay the size it is, you're going to have to live with the size PSP is, even if fanboys say it's too large (because it really isn't).