On its online instruction manuals, Sony Computer Entertainment has a few images for use as labels. There's one for the original PSP-1000 series (click here), and another for the current PSP-2000 series (click here). However, curiously there's also a placeholder image for the logical next-step: the PSP-3000 series (click here).The availability of the PSP-3000 image on the PlayStation site shouldn't come as a signal that a redesign is impending -- it's clear that Sony plans on revising the hardware through its supposed ten year life cycle. However, it does seem to display a bit too much forethought from the web designers that created and uploaded this image. How long will it take before we hear rumblings of yet another PSP redesign?
[Thanks, GSK!]
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3-28-2008 @ 11:12AM
FatalChaos said...
It's too soon for this! Let the rumors begin.....
How long will it take before we hear rumblings of yet another PSP redesign?
Asnwer: A day from now.
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3-28-2008 @ 3:30PM
Lars said...
And how long until it actually comes to the US? Forever and a day from now.
3-28-2008 @ 11:18AM
misterdbarton said...
A redesign before 2010 would be a big FU to those who bought the slim (mysel included) if you ask me.
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3-28-2008 @ 12:03PM
ClarkyCat said...
Just like the Slim was a big FU to those of us who put faith in the system in the first place? Well it wasn't really, I couldn't care less about Skype.
I wonder how exactly they can improve on the system without rendering the previous versions obsolete? Force feedback? Hello, 1 hour battery life! Maybe some of that debated phone functionality, but I can't really see it.
3-28-2008 @ 12:52PM
misterdbarton said...
There was at least 2 years between the original and the slim. Hence why i said no 3000 series until 2010.
3-28-2008 @ 11:21AM
naxe said...
maybe the redesign will include anti theft. finger print and retina scan.
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3-28-2008 @ 11:25AM
Thoas said...
Lol.....we can only hope.
3-28-2008 @ 11:38AM
thissceneisdead said...
I bought a Slim, but I'm up for another one!
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3-28-2008 @ 11:40AM
Dahk said...
Think tomorrow's rumour will be 802.11n, 3G, and an automatically spawned Cheese Croissant every morning.
PSPHONECROISSANT ftepicw.
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3-28-2008 @ 11:41AM
Dahk said...
Oh... and for the obvious joke, after PSP-2000, skip 6 generations of PSPs, and on the 7th Generation, you geeeet:
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3-28-2008 @ 11:53AM
Macha88 said...
wouldn't that be the 8th generation...?
on the 7th generation though....
i dont get it.
psp 7000
with a 77,777 sales of ffVII stuff?
X_X
3-31-2008 @ 3:49AM
TJF588 said...
You obviously don't know how to read a scanner...
3-28-2008 @ 11:45AM
Bad Mojo said...
Of course this comes out a mere 48 hours after I bought my Daxter packaged PsP...
Back to the store it goes and wait a month or two to see what shakes out.
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3-28-2008 @ 11:56AM
Phil S. said...
Wow... I sold my original PSP so I could get the Slim. I wonder if the slim will last 2 years before they officially announce the 3k model?
Maybe this is a placeholder for the PSP Phone that we have heard rumor about?
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3-28-2008 @ 12:00PM
Hashbrown_Hunter said...
That's the only logical reason Sony would have for posting a 3000-series label.
3-28-2008 @ 11:58AM
toefer said...
If the PSP-3000 fights back against CFW (by doing something to prevent Pandora's) then count me out.
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3-28-2008 @ 12:27PM
Macha88 said...
ditto
3-28-2008 @ 12:05PM
segadc said...
I was planning on getting PSP Core pack next month. Hmm...wonder if I should wait a little longer...
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3-28-2008 @ 12:18PM
Jacksons said...
No way. Already? I'll believe that when I see it.
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3-28-2008 @ 12:23PM
Joe said...
Well I for one could care less if the new PSP comes out tomorrow or in five years. Just as long as Sony does what Apple does with the ipods. Each new version is better then the last but apple still supports the older one too.
So may be version 3000 could just have 4 gigs or so of built in memory. So you could use that instead of having to buy a memory card.
So that would be all that is different. I think new versions of the PSP like that would not get people mad if they already own a PSP.
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