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PSP 3000 To Have Worse Battery Life, But Sony Takes Note

The PSP 3000 will have a brighter LCD with a wider color gamut and 5 times the contrast ratio of the PSP 2000. From the shots we've seen, it blows the old screen away—and that screen was already pretty decent. There is, of course, a catch. And that catch is that the PSP will lose somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes of battery life compared to the old PSP, putting its playtime to 3 1/2 to 4 hours. But to compensate, Sony will be rereleasing the just-discontinued PSP extended battery to the market which should still provide 8-10 hours of play. UPDATE: Sony has done an abrupt about-face on the battery issue. [Gamespot via Maxconsole]

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10:40 AM on Fri Aug 29 2008
By Mark Wilson
6,044 views, 20 comments

Latest by MinceyFresh: I wish they would've just made the display reflective so that it's visible in direct sunlight (i.e. the original GameBoy more »

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160GB PS3 Bundle Announced For U.S.

Along with a new PSP and PS3 wireless keyboard, Sony also announced a 160GB PS3 today at the Leipzig Games Convention. In the U.S. it will come bundled with a Dual-Shock SIXAXIS and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. It hits in November in time for Xmas at $499, as the high end option coinciding with the $399 80GB "Core Pack" announced at E3, adding room for Sony's video download plans no doubt. The console itself appears to be the same as previous PS3s. The U.S. version comes with a voucher for the PS Network game PAIN, but the Euro 160-gigger includes €70 of free "downloadable content" vouchers. Full presser to follow: More »

12:02 PM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By John Mahoney
9,313 views, 37 comments

Latest by ErrantHero: @ErrantHero: incidentally, 18 comments over the past 15 months is hardly troll-like. However, you on the other hand have 21 comments more »

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Sony Makes PSP-3000 Official

We knew the PSP-3000 was on the way, but now Sony has made it official. We don't have a full spec sheet yet, but the big two updates are going to be a new, brighter screen ("highest-level contrast ratio, response time, and wider color gamut possible on a portable LCD screen" Sony claims) and an integrated microphone (making those impromptu Skype chats a whole lot more practical). No word on US release yet, but the PSP-3000 will be available in Europe on October 15th for €199. Hopefully we'll have a better picture for you soon, but it looks a lot like the existing PSPs. UPDATE: It's coming to the US on Oct 14, and it will hit with a new pack, click through for the update: [Kotaku] More »

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11:35 AM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By Mark Wilson
27,585 views, 40 comments

Latest by N/A: @wiggatron: No way. Just because h4x0r3s run together doesn't mean you can inflate the numbers. ~current PSP owners = 37.5 million. more »

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Guy Robs Store, Claims Only PS3 Can Save His Family

The criminal of the week award goes to a man who held up an EB Games at gunpoint and demanded a PS3. Why only a PS3 and not, you know, money? Because according to him, his family was being held hostage and the only way he could save them was with a PS3. He then followed it up by running out of the store, but not before he half-heartedly told the clerk to call 911 because his family needed help. [KSDK via PS3 Fanboy via Kotaku]

2:30 PM on Fri Aug 15 2008
By Jason Chen
13,721 views, 37 comments

Latest by N/A: cuckoo.....cuckoo.....cuckoo.....cuckoo Hey look, it's half past NUTJOB!!!! more »

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PlayStation 3 40GB Bids Adieu, Only 80GB Versions on Sale At Sony

As we reported back in mid July, Sony's finally bid farewell to the 40GB PS3, leaving just the 80GB versions on sale at Sony Style, ending the on-again, off-again 80GB debate. The $500 Metal Gear Solid 4 80GB bundle is available now, but the simple "core" edition is showing a September 1st availability. It'll cost you $400. [Sony Style. Thanks, Andy]

5:04 AM on Thu Aug 14 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,819 views, 26 comments

Latest by N/A: Anyone seen any of the "old" 40GB PS3 out there for cheap/discount yet? more »

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FCC Confirms PSP Redesign Number 3001 With Few Visible Improvements

The FCC has come through again, giving up testing info on Sony's upcoming PSP-3001 redesign. It's still the same generation PSP and still has most of the same parts (802.11b Wi-Fi) and still plays the same games, so we're guessing most of the changes will be internal and focused on lowering costs and making the thing harder to hack. Why do we think that? Because that's exactly what Jack Tretton of SCEA said in the roundtable at E3, that Sony's working on securing the platform from piracy. We'll just have to wait and see whether it's worth upgrading to this version if you've already got a PSP. [FCC]

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1:37 AM on Thu Aug 14 2008
By Jason Chen
19,138 views, 24 comments

Latest by N/A: It should be capable of playing all PSP, Play Station's 1/ PS2/ PS3 games, and be a wireless controller for more »

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Sony Discontinues PSP Extended Battery Pack

PSP Fanboy just learned that Sony's discontinuing their 2200mAh PSP battery pack, an official aftermarket addon that would allow you to game for up to 12 hours or so. What's the deal? We're not sure, but someone from Sony said they're looking at other ways to "service the consumer," which might say to us that they're looking at ways to extend battery life without making the back of the PSP bulge out in an unseemly manner. And just when we learned how to hack your PSP for homebrew apps too. [PSP Fanboy]

12:30 PM on Sat Aug 9 2008
By Jason Chen
4,783 views, 13 comments

Latest by notwhoyouthink: I doubt discontinuing this battery will make much of a difference to the home brewers. Even if they change all more »

Wii MotionPlus

Wii MotionPlus Technology Is Not Exclusive To Nintendo, So Expect Similar Controllers Soon

Invensense, one of the two companies that sold their technology to Nintendo for their Wii MotionPlus Wiimote add-on, has just announced that they're NOT exclusive to Nintendo and are fielding offers from other companies. One person with the company says, "I can't get into details about other folks that are interested in this technology, but as you might imagine of course there is more interest out there." The other company is AiLive, which hasn't said anything about licensing their tech to anyone else. More »

1:14 PM on Fri Aug 8 2008
By Jason Chen
3,207 views, 11 comments

Latest by OMG! Ponies!: @misterwight: I'm saying if it adds delay to the detriment of the ability to gain market share, it probably should more »

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Download PlayStation Home Theme, Automatically Apply for Home Beta Test

Want to get in on the closed beta for Sony's once-upon-a-time hotly anticipated PlayStation Home? To throw your name into the hat, just download the PlayStation Home theme that'll be added to the store later today. That's it. Your level of activity is apparently one of the criteria they'll be looking at—it's implied the more hardcore you are, the better your chances, though they might wanna see how nubbie nubs like it too. [PlayStation Blog]

8:00 PM on Thu Aug 7 2008
By matt buchanan
5,036 views, 16 comments

Latest by N/A: I just got my PS3 Wednesday it's now Friday I downloaded the theme that night I got it I more »

Sony Playstation Home Beta

Sony Shows Latest PS3 Home, Now Recruiting Beta Testers

Sony is now recruiting beta testers for PlayStation Home, the virtual world that PS3 users will use to interact with each other—and try to have virtual sex. They will invite 10,000 users from today to August 11, with the beta starting later in the month. The beta will include only a limited number of places, including a Game Venue developed in collaboration with Namco, where you would be able to play Pac-Man, Galaga, and DigDug. All of them look very nice and polished, however: More »

5:56 AM on Thu Jul 31 2008
By Jesus Diaz
13,069 views, 44 comments

Latest by N/A: The real world is much more exciting. You can actually do activities and have real sex, ahhhh no wonder I'm more »

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More PSP 3000 Spy Shots

A tipster mailed in these additional PSP spy shots to go along with the ones we saw yesterday. Assuming this is real, it shows a black PSP with the new PlayStation button, the mic hole, and a thinner outer ring. There's also the headphone jack with the TV out port which features more arrows than before. Color us amazed. If anything, this says that everyone, from Sony themselves to people who have nothing better to do than to make fakes and seed them to news sites online, aren't really expecting much out of the next iteration of the PSP. More »

7:40 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By Jason Chen
26,535 views, 33 comments

Latest by SeattleTed: I've seen the middle pic on ps3fanboy I believe. It's a wider shot vs this cropped and the background has more »

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Is This the Next PSP?

It's tough to make out much from these shots, but according to their source, they are of the next PSP (the PSP model 3000). The specs include a built-in microphone as well as an updated button set that replaces the "Home" button with a PlayStation button (to more closely resemble the PS3). More »

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9:15 AM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Mark Wilson
19,832 views, 28 comments

Latest by N/A: Cell phone support? That sounds lame. People who by a PSP want a portable media/game device. What the hell would more »

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How Sony's Cheapness Is Biting The PS3 In The Ass

Sony's mantra of not writing checks for exclusives—or much of anything—seems to be biting them in the ass a couple times this week. There are at least four cases where the PlayStation 3 has suffered because of Sony's lack of willingness to open up the purse strings. We knew two of these before—backward compatibility and the DualShock 3—but we only found out about the other two during the roundtable session with Sony's Jack Tretton yesterday. More »

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3:40 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Jason Chen
31,460 views, 156 comments

Latest by N/A: Yeah that rocks, they should also come out with a special addition series of the PS3 that is a titanium more »

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Sony Knows What Went Wrong With the PS3

In a non-exclusive round table with various outlets like us, Kotaku and Engadget this morning, Sony Computer Entertainment America's CEO Jack Tretton gave us some great looks behind the public curtain of the PlayStation brand. In short, they know what's wrong with the way they made the PS3, and they know how to fix it. In Jack's words, "we know what we're doing," but it's going to take a long time to atone for past missteps. More »

4:24 PM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Jason Chen
40,453 views, 116 comments

Latest by N/A: Tretton is full of crap. The Xbox 360 is a better experience, in general, for the gamer and the developer. It more »

iphone gaming

The iPhone is More Powerful Than the DS, But Sucks As a Controller

You know that the iPhone is powerful enough to render 3D games like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, as well as various other ones we covered in the marathon review session, but just how powerful is it? How does it compare to actual gaming handhelds like the Nintendo DS and PSP? An EA developer put it this way. On a scale of the three, it's in between the DS and the PSP, but sliding more towards the PSP. That's right. In terms of power, you can expect to see games that look at least as good as the DS once developers get enough (read: more than four months) development time with it. More »

3:40 PM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Jason Chen
26,508 views, 82 comments

Latest by jtwaverly: I'm glad I was too busy to read last week. The iPhone really is cool, but it is not perfect. more »

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PlayStation Network Finally Gets Single Sign On for All Platforms

A small, but happy change in the PlayStation Network: Starting this fall all PlayStation users will have a single sign on that works across PS3, PC and PSP. One. That works across all three platforms. Simplicity and logic, meet Sony.

3:19 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By matt buchanan
2,860 views, 6 comments

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Sony Pulls PS3 2.40 Update To Fix Bricking Issues

Sony's just pulled the 2.40 PS3 firmware update due to reports of it bricking and causing various other problems. If you're unlucky enough to already have installed it and ran into issues, Kotaku has a few solutions up. If not, just hold off until the fixed release is available soon. UPDATE: Sony has issued an official statement acknowledging the situation, below. More »

4:52 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Jason Chen
13,837 views, 47 comments

Latest by tdeckard2000: @Mondoz: Agreed! more »

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Sony's Playstation 3 Movie Download Service to Launch this Summer

We had a rumor about this news back in April but as part of a new corporate Strategy Update, Sony has just confirmed it: video downloads will come to the PS3 "this summer". That's first in the US, with a Europe and Japan roll-out later in the year. Plus, Sony will expand the service across their other video-enabled products, which means the PSP and video-enabled Walkmen. There're some other interesting snippets in there too: like the fact that by 2011 90% of Sony electronics will be "network-enabled and wireless-capable." Read on for the full press release. More »

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4:48 AM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Kit Eaton
7,818 views, 16 comments

Latest by Enochrewt: @ibelli: If it works the same as the 360's movie service (and it had better), you'll be able to watch more »

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