I'm curious as to whether there has been a die shrink and/or further integration of the chip set. This would allow for the size reduction and explain how a lower capacity battery offer greater longevity. A die shrink would also have made it cheap to add the caching for the UMD performance improvement.

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We're around 2 years down the road. Surely they've been able to shrink components and design a much more power efficient device. It's possible that they use newer LCD designs too, keeping the same big, bright display but with a lower power draw. From the sounds of it, they might need to spin the UMD less as well what with the temporary ability to cache UMD data. That solves your two biggest power eaters right there.

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i see that they moved the two speakers from the bottom and put them in front

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I say no thank you to the slim PSP. I like my PSP like I like my women: Meaty.

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You have to be REALLY paying attention to notice the difference.

Nah, I think I'll pass...
Its not that different.. If it looks different, like PS2 to slimPS2, then I'll buy it for sure. This one.. eh... no, I don't think so.

I'll stick to my old PSP :)

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Laffin' and agreeing with zoen151.

Although I do like that ceramic white slim with the Darth Vader image on the back. Very cool but I don't feel the need to get rid of my PSPmeaty!

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Threespeech has some spec sheets up for the new PSP and it looks like it has had an upgrade to the system memory as well. 64mb in the slim psp it was 32mb in the fat psp.

http://threespeech.com/blog/?p=473#more-473

http://www.threespeech.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/PSP%20SPEC.jpg

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looks like the ir thingy on top is gone too, and I need this for my remote control app :(

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I think Sony made a big improvement with the new video output.
But did they solve the REAL problem ? The directions keys is so poor it is impossible to play games like Street Fighter or Tekken...
If they did sovle this problem, i will surely consider buying a new PSP.

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I'm surprised nobody has noticed that the analog nub is larger. The d-pad is a little different - when you superimpose the two PSP models and align the screen you can see the diffences.

As for those saying this isn't worth buying - wait until you see it for yourself. These are prototypes mostly and there's already variations in the slims I've seen, namely clear buttons vs. solid color (look at the various pics) and the location of the card slot.

Hey, a flip-out keyboard would've been nice, but I'll take video out and faster load times, no problem.

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If the video output works well, and creates a good quality video, then I think I'll get one.

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I can't wait to get some hard stats on the new battery life.
- The Video Out is a really smart move, might keep UMD alive with this feature alone, but it will also be kewl to play games on the big screen!
- I would imagine that after the game loads it will really cut load times when part of the game is cached.

I am going to get one as soon as I can.

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I hope DarkAlex comes out of retirement to help us with this one when it's released!

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I've been thinking of buying a 2nd psp and this would fit the bill very nicely.

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Video out is pretty neat but it's not going to make me buy the new model, niether is 33% weight loss.

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just so everyone nos the video out will work with the games and video content. this was stated at sony's press confrence.

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just so everyone knows the video out will work with the
games and video
content. this was stated at sony's press confrence

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I think this is not meant for us PSP owners but for people who have yet to take the plunge. Citing long load times and bad battery life as the biggest reasons NOT to get a PSP, naysayers really don't have a reason to bash the system anymore.

And us existing PSP owners don't feel alienated because we already know the device is great and the few "new" features and that big.

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Sorry I meant the new features aren't that big.

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I think the newer feature of Video Out insures I'll be getting one.

PSP games on a big screen TV!?! A good way to share content on your PSP with others!?! Actually watching a UMD movie!?!

I think that whole feature is being overlooked and/or underated by current PSP owners.

Plus, it will bring new people to the PSP fold and that's always a good thing (unless of course they start crying about wanting a touch screen or some such nonsense).

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