Sony confirms new PSP on way

According to Game Spot, Sony has been confirming and then denying that its PSP was going to get a make over for some time.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe managing director Ray Maguire's initial comments that such a machine was coming were actually denied by Sony America corporate communications director Dave Karraker.

There was further evidence, in June, when Sony updated a PSP patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This showed a diagram of a possible new PSP model that featured a swivel screen and a way to switch between using it as a games machine and a mobile phone. Again Sony denied it all.

Anyway it seems that it has stopped denying it and Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai said that the new PSP will be 33 percent lighter, 19 percent slimmer. There is no mention of a phone and the whole lot with software bundle will cost $199.99. See Sony, that was not so hard was it?

It will hit the shops in the US in October. No other dates for the rest of the world have been given yet.

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