PSP2 Shot Surfaces, Is It Real?

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VG247 is reporting that the image above is the first ‘official PSP2 shot’, albeit one pre-empted with ‘rumour’.

We’re thinking that it looks lovely, but could potentially be a fake, despite the ‘shopper’s best attempts to make it look like it’s from a catalog.  Those analog thumb pads look a lot sharper than the d-pad and face buttons, for example, and the big stylus looks like it’s going to struggle to fit in.

The image originally appeared on 2ch, and although it’s entirely possible that the PSP2 will look like this – especially as the recent Sony Ericsson phones share much of the same aesthetics, we’ll just have to wait and see what happens at the upcoming PlayStation Meeting.

What do you think?

Via Kotaku.

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48 Comments

  1. it’s amazing that we’ve seen many videos of the “non-existing psp phone” out in the wild but none of the psp2. have sony put a cap on the leaks? or is all part of an elaborate marketing plan?

    • The Xperia Play has to be tested worldwide by SE labs and networks. It’s very common in the mobile phone industry to know what’s coming from a handset manufacturer a good six months before they announce it, just take a look at Engadget.

      • That, and the fact its been for sale for weeks in various Chinese backstreet markets where their making full use of the control pad to play ROMs on any number of Android emulators

    • Probably, as well as developer units probably not being handheld in the slightest. Dev units for the PSP were actually like mini-towers, for example.

      You can’t leak a photo of something that you can’t see yet…

    • Think about it, compare the iTouch and iPhone. PSP2 is the Touch and phone is the PSP Phone. Exception of the PSP2 having more for a single feature (Gaming) then the phone.

      • yea, i seem to think that also, but the thing with that is the PSPhone parts are not as powerful as the PSP2 parts (all speculative i guess). Games wouldn’t be playable on both systems.

        You’d get a situation with a really expensive, amazing gaming phone, with a 24 month shelf life due to contracts, and a over priced, underwhelming handheld gaming device on the markets. I think the PSPhone will be a basic device, that plays mini’s and apps from the PSN, and then a high powered PSP2 (looking like the image from this story) made just for games. Both products pushing there intended markets… with the PSPhone out selling the PSP2 3:1

  2. I’m calling fake. Pretty sure about 2 months ago Sony (or someone close to) said they had to ditch the sliding screen design because of an overheating problem, going back to the ol’ brick format.

    • When?

      • I heard that too, in fact that was widely reported.

  3. PSP2 includes a pen!? Does this mean a touch screen??

  4. That stylus worries me. It better not be a resistive screen.

  5. I hope this is what the lay out of all the buttons and analog sticks will be like.

    • Would hope they would at least look as nice as the ones on the PSPgo though.

  6. Probably a fake,apart from the thumb sticks and the Sony logo pretty much all of it is out of focus, plus its pretty grainy. Even for a “leaked” image it looks pretty bad.

    • I tend to agree, looks a bit too grainy. The way the stuff is laid out it should be a promo shot… so why is it such bad quality? I can understand a camera phone shot of one on the production line but not this.

    • I would asy fake too as it’s very much like the Xperia phone with a couple of thumb sticks added.

  7. Real or not, I don’t like the all grey buttons on the fascia, not my cup of tea. Aesthetics similar to the ‘go would be welcome.……

    Besides, even I that stylus did fit in, why would you make I that long in the first Place, completely impractical, it would be like playing the DS with chopsticks!!

    I’m calling it…..Fake

  8. I like what I see, but good looks aren’t everything.

  9. It’s obviously a fake, it just the xperia play modded to look less phone like. There’s no PSP2 branding on the main panel, and they wouldn’t leave it plain. They’re also probably ditching the old psp logo with something more curvey like the PS3 one. A stylus probably won’t happen. The ling memory card is just a pro duo adapter with a paint job, not a card at all. Finally, the speakers are on the slide out panel, which means it would sound awful and muffled if slid down.

    • Great arguments. Well spotted with the speakers. I’d expect a PlayStation logo and maybe a Sony one on that top part too, if it does slide, a la the Go.

      There’s also no lights on it anywhere. There are three on the PSP’s so far.

    • That long thing is the original Memory Stick (Pro), which is out of production, the Duo, took it’s place.
      SD Cards are likely , but not in that form, maybe mini or micro

      • If that’s to scale, it’s not a Mem Stick Pro.

  10. I was hoping that the interface wouldn’t end up looking like the underside panel of an old VCR, so I actually hope it’s a fake.

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