I'm not sure what kind of revamp Sony are giving the PSP, but I think we will se DSi-ish revamp of it. With all this new software coming, any new PSP will have to be able to play it.

PS2 slows down

PSP picks up (hopefully for Sony).

Therefore funds that are lost in the PS2 are now being gained in the PSP, leading to a status quo for revenue (and since both the PSP and PS2 are balancing out the PS3, having better PSP-sales could mean they are using the device to spur on a price cut for the PS3, paying for it with PSP-sales).

One needs to think of it as though the PSP is actually making Sony money, PS3 is not. Putting a small amount of resources of the Sony first party is all that is needed to make PSP games. It gives people a reason to purchase the console and sales for PSP games should also increase.

For example GT portable is in development, it has been hinted to the point where it can pretty much be confirmed. Not many from PD would need to work on the game but at the end it would sell PSP's and easily 3 million in software.

PSP and PS2 are keeping the PS3 on life support however soon enough the PS3 will hold it's own. Having the PSP and PS3 both doing well will allow Sony to start pushing back into the black and make significent profit from the Playstation brand again.

The "big boys" are still making the PS3 games so more resources going to PSP by ass, just more outsourcing to 3rd parties to make PSP games.

I think it all comes down to perception. Sony is not doing any more or any less now with the PSP than they have at any time during its life span. They have all the same in house studios working on PSP games. Not one new team from within Sony has announced a big game. Everything we have seen Sony do this year with the PSP is just what they have been doing all along. The only differance I have noticed is that is seems like they have moved from announceing games spaced out, and far in advance, to announceing bunches of games for the near term. As far as internet buzz goes this is seems to have woken people up, and shed some light on the PSP.

One reason that should be pretty obvious as to why this has happened is because there is a new PSP coming. A PSP that is going to be what people wanted all along. The slide screen, the dual sticks, no UMD, and built in memory. From here forward all PSP games will be made for the new PSP first, but devs will not forget about the 50M current owners, so they will through in control options that allow those gamers to enjoy the new software also.

But, in all reality, only one recources has seemingly been shifted to the PSP, and that is marketing. I, however, don't think it has shifted either. It is just a mnatter of Sony has been working on a PSP plan for the last 12 - 18 months, and this year they will unleash it. So, I guess what I am trying to say is that Sony has done nothing but shift the behind the scence work on PSP into public view, thus making it seem like more is going on, when really they are only doing the same amount of work as before. Just now they have decided to let us see that work for marketing purposes.

It's about time... the PS3 is going nowhere right now, but they have shitloads of room to move the PSP... or PSP2... now what do I buy... PSP2 or the new Zune HD... *sigh* and I still don't have a PS3

We are probably seeing results of PS2 development teams finishing their work and moving all forces to PSP (they probably did this already a year or two ago but we see results now with annoucments)

I think they are pushing PSP as it will offset the PS3s pricecut in Q3