Sony has contended there is no PSP2 and they are telling the cold hard truth. There wont be a PSP2 coming for at least a couple more years. That doesnt mean that some new PSP hardware isnt headed our way soon enough. Think more aesthetic changes, more along the lines of DSLite but more substantial of a change. We here at PlayStation LifeStyle are ready to debunk or confirm some of the rumors that are floating around the net.

We are not at liberty to divulge our sources. Rest assured all will be revealed during E3.

Some of the details I cannot divulge, but we will try our best to let you know what it is, and what it isnt. We recently noticed PSPWorlds attempt at Separating Fact and Fiction regarding the PSP2, we call it an attempt because its pretty much all wrong.

Lets take a look at what PSPWorld calls Fact

UMD is dead. Sorry folks, UMD IS dead, they got this one right
Touch Screen. PSPWorld states that this is a given as this seems to be the trend the industry is heading towards. Well Sony boasts its Like No Other and that is the truth, Sony doesnt follow trends, it sets them. There will be NO touchscreen in the next PSP.
Monstrous Hardware Specs If that were the case, it WOULD be the PSP2, and the next PSP is NOT the PSP2, its not the PSP-4000 either. In fact its something entirely unique.

Now lets move onto their Fiction:

Release before Christmas 2009. We dont know an exact release date, but its much sooner than anyone is expecting. One thing we are sure of is that its definitely going to be before Holiday 2009.
Internal HDD. If UMD is dead, how exactly does PSPWorld think we are going to get our games on the new PSP? Sure Sony could pack in some form of memory stick with the new PSP, but that isnt practical. As Dave Perry has mentioned in the past, look for some type of solid state memory on board. It will also take some form of removable flash memory.
Phone included. They got this one right also, but it wasnt a hard guess. There will be no built in phone in the next PSP, however you can always use Skype.
Here is a few more things we would like to touch on.

Sliding Screen. They call this fiction, and unfortunately we cannot comment on this. We have to leave it at that.
Dual Analog Sticks. Nope, not happening, at least not until the PSP2 which this isnt. Adding a second analog stick would alienate the current PSP lineup, which is going to get much more robust later this year. A lineup, that will play just fine on this new PSP, which is based on current PSP tech.

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