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Sony PSP

Earlier this morning Sony released more details on its upcoming handheld game unit, the PSP. It will feature:

• 7.1 Digital Surround Sound
• MP3/AAC support
• A 4.5” 16:9 Widescreen LCD screen
• Embedded 802.11 wireless networking
• A rechargeable Li-Ion battery
• USB 2.0
• An infrared data port
• A memory stick port
• A bunch of crazy graphics specs that I don’t understand

While all of that sounds pretty damn impressive, considering my computer doesn’t support half of that stuff, I hope they don’t forget the most important aspect of a portable gaming system, the size. Fitting all of that into a small enough package to still remain “portable” sounds like quite a challenge to me. I was never interested in the GameBoys until the SP came out, because it was finally small enough to really be mobile. I even had an original GameBoy Advance but never took it with me anywhere because it was just too big, plus you had to take an entourage of accessories with you just to make it playable.

If this PSP ends up being as big as a laptop or something, I can safely say I won’t be very interested. And some of the specs just don’t make sense… Like 7.1 surround sound… Do they expect people to carry around 8 speakers with them everywhere?

Maybe I’m missing the point here and this is supposed to be something more like a semi-portable PS2 that could fit in a brief case or something. If they can put all of those features into a machine small enough to fit in my pocket however, that will be interesting indeed. Especially the built-in Wi-Fi.

But hey, if I get one of these, it won’t really matter how big that thing is!

Awesome! I am planning on getting one… :)

yea its cool