Crecente interviews Koller, Sony confirms what we already know

August 8, 2006 on 11:18 pm | In Uncategorized | Comments Off

In an interview with Kotaku editor Brian Crecente for the Rocky Mountain News, Senior Marketing Manager for the PSP John Koller stated that the upcoming camera for the PSP can "take still pictures and video." We have no idea if this means record still images and video to the Memory Stick, so it doesn't really advance our understanding, but it sounds nice to us. He also confirmed that the upcoming GPS accessory will be used for gaming and mapping -- I don't know about you guys, but I had my doubts about whether or not Sony would actually provide some sort of map functionality for it. The rest of the interview is worth reading, but doesn't really introduce a lot of information we haven't already heard from Sony. Lines such as "that is something we are addressing" in response to criticism of UMD and not providing more downloadable audio/video content and "We need to see how the Connect site works out" are ones we've heard in the past, but unfortunately, we're yet to see much action from Sony in either department. Anyone else feeling a delay coming on? This PSP camera is supposed to be released in less than a month (scheduled for September 6th, at least in Japan), yet we haven't heard anything else about it yet.

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Nyko Charger Case for PSP

August 8, 2006 on 4:07 pm | In Accessories | Comments Off

The Nyko Charger Case for PSP combines a protective case with a built-in rechargeable battery capable of adding seven additional hours of playtime to a PlayStation Portable. The anodized aluminum...

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Sony mylo may look like PSP but does its own thing

August 8, 2006 on 2:54 pm | In News | Comments Off

It may look like a Sony PlayStation Portable, but it is not. The new Sony mylo personal communicator, which comes in black or white, makes use of 802.11 wireless technology to let users engage in...

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TubeSock: YouTube videos for your PSP

August 8, 2006 on 2:45 pm | In News | Comments Off

YouTube is a popular site for viewing videos uploaded by others. What if you want to take it with you though on your PSP? TubeSock may well be the application for you. This program lets you...

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Aly & AJ sing Simlish for The Sims 2 Pets, Sims run screaming everywhere

August 8, 2006 on 2:11 pm | In News | Comments Off

The teenage singing duo of Aly & AJ is coming to The Sims 2 Pets for the PlayStation Portable, among other platforms, EA announced today. The two girls have apparently learned how to speak Simlish,...

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Newsbits 8/8: Silent Hill, a PSP game actually sells well, mylo, and PSP in China

August 8, 2006 on 1:45 pm | In Uncategorized | Comments Off

One of the developers of the upcoming Silent Hill: Origins has let loose some more details about the game. Being able to play Silent Hill on a cold winter night out in some dark tent in a New England forest would be absolutely awesome, and this game would make such a thing possible. IGN got some hands-on with Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony. MaxConsole has some details about how to get a PSP shirt from Sony, but why would you want one of them when you can get a PSP-Vault shirt? Sony Consumer Electronics plans on releasing a device called the "mylo" here in the States. It's sort of WiFi messenger/multimedia device, so I guess you could consider it the PSP's little brother. Ruliweb has some pretty nice pictures of a Sony Computer Entertainment Korea bus stop advertisement for Tekken: Dark Resurrection. Kazuyuki Inakoshi, a coordinator for TSUTAYA (a Japanese chain) estimates that "SD Gundam G Generations Portable" had a smashing first week, as the game was released August 3rd in Japan. He puts its sales between 120,000 and 130,000 units, which, according to numbers from two weeks ago, would put it just under New Super Mario and above DS Cooking Navi in terms of units sold in a single week. He predicts sales of around 200,000 units for just the shipped software base. Takeshi Yamaya, famed "Asian Reported" for a number of Japanese websites, attributes the success of the PSP in China to the fact that pirated software is easy to come by. He says that an "overwhelming" number of game shops have PSP displays, and when walking around the city, it is extremely rare to see someone using a Nintendo DS. This demand for pirated software has also upped the demand for Memory Sticks, thus resulting in the phony versions of those we saw a while back.

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