E3 2009: Sony VP of marketing Peter Dille confirms redesigned handheld
will ship in two colors on October 1; additional hues possible
postrelease.
Sony Computer Entertainment had a hard time keeping the PSP Go under
wraps leading up to the handheld's reveal during the publisher's 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference.
Just a few days before Sony was to descend on the Shrine Auditorium in
Los Angeles, Sony's director of hardware marketing, John Koller,
appeared in a leaked video of the PlayStation-focused video magazine Qore, spilling nearly all of the details on the device.
Nearly, but not quite all. Following the PSP Go's official reveal on
Tuesday, Sony's senior VP of marketing and PlayStation Network, Peter
Dille, spoke with GameSpot, confirming that the fourth iteration of
Sony's handheld will launch in two colors: white and black.
"It will have both white and black at launch, and we're looking at
bringing additional colors into the marketplace postlaunch," Dille said
in a video interview, holding up the alabaster device.
The PSP Go is expected to launch on October 1, alongside the
long-awaited Gran Turismo PSP. It is 50 percent smaller and 40 percent
lighter than the PSP-3000, with integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support.
The device lacks a UMD drive, though gamers will be able to download
games directly through the PlayStation Store and store them on the 16GB
of onboard flash memory. It will retail for $249.99.
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