The Fryer, Vol. 10

Videogame News That Does What Nintendon't
4/1/2009 12:01 AM | 1 Comments | Page 2 of 4

Rumor: Next PSP to lack buttons, screen, casing

Hey rumor-oids and rumor-inas. It's your lovable furry old friend The Rumor Monger, back again with more of those gaming tidbits that the other sites are calling "totally baseless" and "irresponsible to report." That's right: You can only get this kind of information right here!

So you've probably already heard the reports that Sony's follow-up to the PSP will do away with the UMD drive. That's nothing! Rumor moles deep within Sony have told your fur-covered reporter that the PSP2 will also be missing many other bits of PSP hardware, including the buttons, the screen and the front casing!

Apparently engineers at The Big S are looking to capture some of the sales fire that Nintendo has captured with its Nintendo DS and Wii. To that end, the company will forgo complex, screen-based games for simpler, more casual fare that can be played on the system's revolutionary three-by-three grid of colored LEDs, attached to the side of the exposed circuit board. A variety of such games will be downloadable to a Sony Memory Stick via Wi-Fi and controlled via a motion sensor, just like the ultra-hot Wii.

Besides making the PSP a lot more cost competitive, my source tells me the removed hardware will make the unit a lot lighter and more energy efficient, too. In fact, it will be so energy efficient that it doesn't need a battery: a solar cell with a hand crank backup will provide all the portable gaming power you'll need!

Sounds unbelievable? I wouldn't believe it myself if I didn't know my source was 100,000 percent reliable! Remember, when you're shaking that PSP2 circuit board, you heard about it here first.