PSP go

PSPgo is the new hand held gaming system that Sony will be releasing this fall. So far the price tag is $250. This psp has no UMD drive. Consumers who buy the PSP go will have to rely on the Playstation market place and it’s download-able content to use the PSP go. One good news is that Sony planes on having all the 09 games download-able before the release of the PSP go. Also the PSP go will feature an on board flash memory that will be 16 GB. So the PSP go can hold anywhere between 13 to 16 games. The specs below are from Gaming Bits. You can look at their post at http://www.gamingbits.com/content/view/5910/2/ .

PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) go (PSP-N1000)

Product Name
PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) go system

External dimensions
Approx. 128 x 16.5 x 69 mm (width x height x depth) (excludes
largest projection)

Weight
Approx. 158g / 5.56 oz (including internal battery)

CPU
PSP® CPU System clock frequency 1-333 MHz, Main Memory
64MB）

Display
3.8 inches (16:9) full-transparent type, TFT drive,
480 x 272 pixel, Approx. 16,770,000 colors displayed

Sound
Built-in stereo speakers
Built-in microphone

Main input/output
Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11b) (Wi-Fi)
Bluetooth®2.0 (EDR)
High Speed USB (USB2.0)
Memory Stick Micro™(M2™)
Analog Video Out
Microphone

Main connectors
Multi use connector
(DC IN / OUT, USB, Video Output / Input, Sound Input / Output)
Headset / Microphone connector
Memory Stick Micro™(M2™) slot

Key / Switches
Directional buttons (up/down/right/left), analog stick,
Action buttons (triangle, circle, cross, square), L/R buttons
START button, SELECT button, PS button
POWER/HOLD switch, WLAN switch
display button, sound button, volume (+/-) buttons

Power sources
Lithium-Ion rechargeable internal battery pack
AC adaptor
USB power supply

Internal disc drive
16GB (Flash Memory)

Supported profile
PSP®PlayStation®Portable) Game

Access Control
Region code, parental control

Wireless communications
Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11b) (Wi-Fi)
(Infrastructure mode / Ad hoc mode (connect up to 16 consoles))
Bluetooth®2.0 (EDR)

Supplied accessories
AC adaptor
USB cable
CD-ROM（Media Go ver.1.1）

Supported codec (in Memory Stick Micro / Internal memory)

Video
Memory Stick Video Format
- MPEG-4 Simple Profile (AAC)
- H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Main Profile (AAC)
MPEG4
- MPEG-4 Simple Profile (AAC)
- H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Main Profile (CABAC) (AAC)
Baseline Profile (AAC)
AVI
- Motion JPEG (Linear PCM)
- Motion JPEG (μ-Law)

Music
Memory Stick Audio Format
- ATRAC3
- ATRAC3plus™
- MP3
MP3 (MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer3)
MP4 (MPEG-4 AAC)
WAVE (Linear PCM)
WMA

Photo
JPEG (DCF2.0/Exif2.21 compliant)
TIFF
BMP
GIF
PNG

From SCEA:
“Sony Computer Entertainment set a new standard for entertainment on the go with the PSP®(PlayStation®Portable) system, the premiere integrated handheld entertainment system designed to handle multiple applications — music, video, photo, Internet, and wireless connectivity, with games as its key feature. Now the ultimate portable entertainment platform is more portable than ever with the addition of the PSP go system to the PSP family. The new PSP go system is a sleek and lightweight system that is more than 50 percent smaller and more than 40 percent lighter than the original PSP system that launched in 2005. The sophisticated and stylish design incorporates a sliding 3.8-inch display screen, delivering the same high resolution and vibrant visuals as the current PSP-3000 model.

Leveraging PlayStation®Network and digital content exclusively, PSP go system features 16GB of internal memory as well as expandable storage via Memory Stick Micro™(M2) to store plenty of games, videos, photos, and music. The PSP go system is designed for the digital lifestyle, offering on-demand entertainment to consumers who want to download content directly to their device anytime, anywhere over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.”

See more on the PSP go system at http://www.us.playstation.com/PSP .