• 3.8-inch display (resolution is undisclosed)
• 43 percent lighter than the PSP-3000
• 16GB of Flash storage
• Bluetooth built-in; supports handset tethering and BT headsets
• No UMD drive
• Memory Stick Micro slot
• New Gran Turismo, Little Big Planet and new Metal Gear Solid (!) on the way
• Full PlayStation Network support (movie and TV rentals / purchases)
• Integration with PlayStation 3 (works the same as the PSP-3000 does)
• Sony views each of its products as “10-year lifecycle products,” so the PSP “needs to live on.”

Engadget has video from the June 2009 episode of Qore that shows the new PSP Go. It has a slide out gamepad, 16GB internal storage, bluetooth, and a memory slot of some sort. We’re naturally curious about its potential as a homebrew platform. Will Sony take the mature route they did with the PS3 and let you run Linux or will they continue the firmware arms race the PSP is known for? We’ll be hearing more about this platform at E3 next week.

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Asus most definitely came to CES today packing heat and without a
doubt, one of its most impressive announcements was the Eee Keyboard.
We want it and we want it now. The Eee Keyboard stuffs a PC with
respectable netbook-like specs into, you guessed it, a keyboard. Flat
Mac-like keys and a 5-inch touchscreen display sit atop a very thin
keyboard frame with a host of connections on the back – connections you
potentially don’t even need, we might add. Asus’ new take on the
all-in-one features Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n along with wireless HDMI and
Bluetooth 2.0 meaning that short of a power cord, users can connect
wirelessly to any and all required peripherals including a high
definition display or HDTV. We’ll take things in a different direction
- imagine carrying this puppy around with a a pocket projector and
having access to a full PC with a sizable projected display anywhere
and everywhere you go. Specs on this innovative little piece of kit are
as follows:

• Self-contained PC / keyboard combo with integrated 5-inch touchscreen display
• OS: Windows XP Home Edition
• 1.6GHz Intel Atom microprocessor
• 1GB of DDR2 DRAM
• 16GB or 32GB SSD
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Ultra Wideband HDMI
• USB 2.0 x2, VGA, HDMI, headphone and mic ports
• Weight: 2 lbs

Pricing and projected availability are still a bit of a mystery,
though Asus CEO Johnny Shih claims it will be available in the next
three to six months, so we’ll be waiting with bated breath. Hit the
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Research groups tell us a lot of interesting things, and Nielsen has begun the new year with some unexpected news from 2008.  With other reports fussing over the three “next-gen” consoles, who would have thought that Sony’s PlayStation 2 would win the popularity contest? Based on data gathered between January and October 2008, Nielsen has determined that 31.7 percent of the American gamer pool was comprised of PS2 users.  The Xbox 360 comes in second with 17.2 percent, followed by the Wii at 13.4 percent.

Furthermore, the research data showed the original Xbox hanging on at 9.7 percent, as the PlayStation 3 sits at 7.3 percent.  Nintendo’s GameCube falls below that at 4.6 percent, leaving 16.2 percent in the “Other” category, which consists of “any other console found in the home.”  This doesn’t include portable platforms on the DS or PSP. Even more impressive data from Nielsen is the fact that World of Warcraft (WoW) users average 671 minutes (over 11 hours) per week! In any given minute, “almost 1 percent (0.723 percent) of all PC gamers are playing WoW.”

Sony’s PS3 virtual world, Home, has already been hacked, with
developers having discovered ways to exploit vulnerabilities within the
software’s code. According to reports in the Telegraph this week, the
hack allowed the developers “to customise their PlayStation Home
experience beyond the options provided by Sony.”

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