PSP-4000, PSP 2 totally coming, say publishers

December 12th, 2008. Offworld publishes post entitled "Sony isn't even thinking about the PSP 2."

December 17th, 2008: unnamed publishers say, "Yes, they jolly well are."

Sony plans to refresh the PlayStation Portable product line with a PSP-4000 model in late 2009 and launch a true successor - a PSP2, if you like - later.

Publishing sources, speaking to Eurogamer, were unable to provide any further detail on next year's update, which will presumably follow this year's PSP-3000 in taking an iterative approach. The PSP-3000 launched this October and followed a 2000-series model, the first Slim & Lite, in September 2007.

Even fewer details were available on the PSP successor, but we're told that developers are already working on games.

Ultimately, though, I still think it will equal the same thing: an endless battle between hackers and Sony that ultimately results in Sony allowing the platform to stagnate. It's easier for Sony to release solid hardware and then blame piracy for that platform's stagnation than encourage developers to release quality games.

psp-4000 in 2008, PSP2 later [Eurogamer]