It begins? PSP Go Images Leaked — UPDATE!
It’s pre-E3 time kids! High time for all the leaks, rumors, and of course, fake news to come out of the woodwork. Sighted at GAF are these images allegedly from the June issue of Qore — reprise with a ubiquitous watermark that took us to a suspended site. It comes without saying, but take this news with copious amounts of salt. Shown on the leaked Qore slides is a slide-out unit with HDMI-out and seemingly no UMD slot. Allegedly, the unit will come with 16GB of built-in memory (plus a Memory Stick Pro Duo Micro slot) and will be released Fall 2009. Interestingly, the PSP Go will not supplant the current PSP-3000: they will both be sold on retail channels simultaneously. Nintendo already gave us the same song and dance with the DS Lite, so I’m fairly confident that the PSP Go! will actually replace current PSP models in the end.
I’m all for smaller portables (still play my Game Boy Micro during office breaks), but I’m still not too hot on this alleged redesign. For one, the controls look painful as heck; the analog nub seems to be in an awkward location on the unit. Not to mention that the thing looks more akin to Sony’s myLo than a gaming device. No sense getting worked up on this “leak” however — I’ll wait ’till E3, or at least until we get more confirmation.
Update: Reports have been trickling in that the June Qore episode is now up on the PlayStation Store. I’ll go ahead and check!
Update 2: More crazy stuff’s been leaking out of the Qore episode — Gran Turismo Mobile, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops 2 and a new Jak and Daxter title are confirmed in the show.
Update 3: Yup, confirmed — these images are legit. That’s the final design, for better or for worse. Also of note was the snippet of impressive LittleBigPlanet PSP footage shown for a bit.
Update 4: New screencaps added. Check it out!
Read: NeoGAF Thread
PSP Go Qore Leak Image Gallery:
Nope. Latest QORE episode on PSN is still the May one.
Hi-res official pics. http://www.eurogamer.net/gallery.php?game_id=&article_id=587698