Sony will show new PSP version in June

Sony plans to present the new version of portable console PSP at exhibition E3 which will pass in the beginning of June of current year. About it writes IGN referring to the information which the portal 1UP has received from own sources. It is supposed that the device will carry name PSP Go! In Japan the console should appear in September, and inhabitants of the USA can buy it in the end of October or in the beginning of November, 2009.
Journalists have confirmed hearings that new model PSP will lose slot for disks of UMD format. They also have added that in sale two versions of the console - with flash-memory volume in 8 and 16 GB will arrive. The device will have slide screen that will allow to clean all basic buttons from obverse PSP panel.

It is informed that by the time of start of the updated console to downloading it will be accessible over 100 games. And into their number will enter both already left, and absolutely new projects. On the hearings, one of the first games who can be downloaded, becomes Gran Turismo Mobile, announced in May, 2004.

Representatives of Sony have refused to make comments on this information. We will notice that else in February the Japanese division of the company has started search of people to which should test new game system. Thus in Sony have not specified, over what device work at the moment. It is known only that it concerns trade marks PlayStation or PSP.

Let's remind that PSP left in Japan in the end of 2004. In 2007 has appeared thin and easy PSP-2000, and last year start PSP-3000 with the advanced LCD-screen and the built in microphone has taken place.

By the present moment all over the world it is sold more than 50 million PSP. Company Sony console takes the second place in the market of portable game systems, essentially conceding DS from Nintendo.
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New PSP console will get slide screen

New model PSP will go on sale in the end of current year, writes Eurogamer referring to a source close to company Sony. Journalists managed to find out that portable console will really lose UMD slot. Besides, PSP-4000 will differ from the previous versions of game system presence of slide screen. As informs an anonymous source, in the closed condition gamers cannot use the majority of buttons PSP. In the opened kind the console will not differ on functionality from PSP-3000. Journalists underlined that the sizes of the screen will not change. Representatives of company Sony have refused to make comments on this information. We will notice that it any more the first hearings about new model PSP. In the end of February this information was confirmed with the founder of game Earthworm Jim David Perr (David Perry). As he said, Sony will refuse from UMD-Slot, and will extend further games through own network service. Gamers can write down them directly on flash card PSP. It is already known that the Japanese division of the company searches for people for testing of the new device concerning trade marks PlayStation or PSP. Thus developers do not specify, on what they work at the moment. The first model PSP left in Japan in the end of 2004. To the middle of February of current year Sony it was possible to sell all over the world 50 million portable game systems. Thus PSP still takes the second place in the market of portable game systems, conceding DS. According to company Nintendo data, by the end of last year it has been sold 96,22 million these consoles.

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