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Straight from the horses mouth:
On today's PlayStation Business Briefing 2006, Sony Computer Entertainment has announced an upcoming revolution for the PlayStation Portable. There will be tons of new features to be added to this divine object of glory in the upcoming months. A delay to the PS3 release has also been announced officially.

The users will be able to add new exciting functions, such as the Macromedia Flash Player, and will be expanding the current RSS channel function to support streaming and saving internet radio and videos, by updating the System Software of the PSP (the firmware) to the latest version.

New official accessories will also be released this autumn, such as the PSP camera "PSP-300" and the GPS receiver "PSP-290". The users will be able to experience the motion tracing function of the EyeToy, which was originally available on the PS2 by using the PSP camera. With the help of the GPS receiver, you will be able to make use of navigation software to guide your way all over the world.




Sony will be starting a new e-Distribution system for the PSP. You may start to wonder what it is, huh? Well, simply saying - to buy and download games into your memory stick, and run them directly from it!! Bye-bye, loading times... But wait, that is not all the fun you can get from the new service. There will also be an OFFICIAL PlayStation Emulator by Sony itself (PacManFan, don't cry)! Sony will be distributing modified PlayStation/PlayStation 2 games through this system.

Also, the "Ceramic White" PSP will be sold in a normal pack (PSP, 1 battery, power adapter) from April in Japan, at a price for 19,800 JPY (167.8 USD). North American and European users will be able to buy a "Base Model" pack (PSP, 1 battery, power adapter) of the PSP at $199USD/199 Euro. The actually dates are: Europe from March 22, North American from the end of March.

So much for the PSP side, now here is a bad news for the PS3 fans. Sony has officially announced that the release of the PS3 is postponed from this spring to early November of 2006. However, the release of the PS3 will be global - Asia, North America and Europe will be getting the release in the mean time. Sony will be able to offer 1 million consoles per month after the release, to meet the need of the users around the world.
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yea and my name is jesus

its actually true it was on nbc 10 this morning ps3 is being delayed till fall too

hmm, wow they make it seem so cool, but you still have to buy/rebuy the games. I will just have to buy/steal a second one.

Im sure once they come out with it someone will make the emulator work on 1.5 so sony is really doing a favor by making and emulater that runs at full speed i just wornder when their gonna release the firmware.

Never thought of that.. Now I will never upgrade, because I know that a hacker soon with take the psx/ps2 emu off and make it compatible with a 1.5 PSP! Yeah!

Yup but i think im gonna get my psp with the broken screen fixed by sony for a $125 and just upgrade that one so that i can see what sonys doing to make the psp better first hand.

What would be cool is if some super-hacker could be smart enough to edit upgade eboots to only add the things we want to and have the ability to keep the homebrew playable.

well if they knew how to then they would make custum firmwares and update them on 1.0 cause u dont need sony signed code for 1.0

The ps1/ps2 games will be either:

-free, as you will need a code found in a umd game you purchased from a store.
OR
-a dollar a download for the games on sonyconnect. Just like apple's itunes downloads.

then there will be all these pop commerials offering free codes if you buy their drinks, lol

But either way, im buying a white psp with an upgrade.

yah cause i bet that they have the connect logo in the internet logo.

great, now im deciding what to get. A white psp w/ regular pack. Or a nintendo DS lite. hmmmm. Both maybe?

u can mod ds right?

dano you must have a fdew thousand bucks lying round the house rite...can you send me some?

BTW while the news of all those goodies and emus is good news the better news would be the ability to run game soof the mem stick. now we can reduce loading times (SD vs RAW) and also look for new exploits to dg... yay!!!