I won't be buying another PSP, but I know some suckers might. Sony does not need anymore of my money, they don't respect me to shop where I want to shop.

Screen probs I've yet to experience with mine, apart from the damn perspex screen casing cracking. It should be able to take a beating and still work like DS does.

GPS and a camera? People already have enough cameras on phones and such, GPS would have to be something special for me to buy into it.

gona say this again,the PSP is not a portable machine.its fundamentals are all up the left.a redesign is not goin to save it.think sony want the same effect the lite had4nintendo.......NO NO NO sony.it wont happen.

I would have been more interested if Sony did not do things like this:

http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3901
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/25/sony_slams_lik-sang/

Now, where am I going to buy my alternative handhelds, to the PSP, from. Sony really kicked themselves in the chins with this one. Where Linux Home development, Java even, word processing etc etc?

Have you guys even bothered to report on the massive, and I mean Massive, profit drop of Sony because of PS3 and batteries.

They need to revise the PSP to make more profit, and to sell it cheaper. But, it also allows them to retarget the device to different markets to maximise sales. This Christmas would have been a better target, but obviously they are trying to maximise the cost reduction and feature mix. Their are a heap of better display technology coming on line.

Sony does so many things in ways I just would not want to. Ten year cycles, you could probably fit the PS3 in a watch by then. They better upgrade it to 100-500x power. I know that they have this continual model thing, but I can't help but worry that the PS3 of ten years time, will be as powerful as the PS3 of today.

This "penny" pinching can really flush away market share, XBOX has trounced previous PS2 records in Aus already. If Australians have 1 million Xbox360's and Wii's by the time PS3 comes, who is going to buy it? You may think that is nothing, but what if that happens in UK and Europe, with ten million+ of those units by the PS3 launch? This has really given a lot of breathing space to Microsoft. Ten years, Nintendo could have three consoles with handheld versions by then, and MS, well if they are smart, two or more. If Sony doesn't massively improve it's machines (more cell's, faster more CPU's, better graphics) then MS can actually win.

This is a disaster, I liked the idea of Sony winning, now all this locked down hardware, long hardware revisions, restriction of fair use, restriction of trade, regional segregation, is really killing their appeal with me.

What we need is an open console, PC based, bi-annual revision, Linux maybe with open office, integrated or embedded graphics card, a insert disk and play mentality with standardised universal controller API. Copy protection for developers that want it. Intel or AMD can sponsor and supply chip-sets that can be used for it and normal PC's. Embedded instant on capability.

This is a lot cheaper to do then the PS3, and will be able to outstrip it within years.

One note is i think you are sort of missunderstanding the 10 year life cycle. Saying the PS3 will be around for ten years doesnt mean it wont have a succesor before then, just that they wont abandon it. Games kept comming out for the PS1 well into the PS2's life cycle, though most involve marry kate and or ashley olsen. (i actually comend sony on this as MS realy did just drop the Xbox1 like a bad habit)

Im sure we will have a PS4 around 2011 give or take, have no fear of that.

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he was misunderstanding it? i thought that was the deal exactly! obviously they may and probably will support it past its successor being released (in a decade.. ?) but i thought sony honestly intend and were saying the ps3 has the technology contained within to last 10 years as sony's flagship livingroom games console

even though it may have been more bullshit