PSP 4000 Confirmed

[dharh]

ps3-sales! said:

I'm so confused with Sony. They have one of the biggest assets at their fingertips, the ps2. All they have to do, is stop "revisioning" the psp, and make a PSP2, essentially a ps2 on the go(2 analog sticks)
Port the best ps2 games so that they are playing the same thing, not a portable version, and keep the psp go but add a 2nd analog stick to that and add all ps2 on psn.
They would win this gen and future gens to come if they did that.

It'd be a bad business decision. The costs would be too high, it'd be PS3 all over again. The PSP probably has 1 or 2 or even 3 years left in it before we see a PSP2. We haven't even begun to go into the depth of games that was the PS1 game library, why start mixing the PS2 games yet?

SONY will most likely wait until everyone gets acclimated to the notion of a PSP-GO like portable and then they will do the PSP2. The primary reason for this is going to be the huge size PS2 games can be. FFVIII was 1820MBs. Care to guess what the size of FFX was? Could not even possibly fit into a UMD. A UMD BLURAY would be out of the question expensive (+$10-20 for all games compared to UMD games) and even that still might not be enough to fit some of these games. The only recourse is going to be a portable with copious amounts of on-board space (32gig+) and expandable card slot that can handle minimum 16-32 gig mem cards.

Even going the cheap route (IE no UMD/UMD BLURAY, non-touch screen), it would be minimum $299 today if not more.