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Sony PSPmonths of wondering and rumors, we have been shown a black, sleek, and modern Playstation Portable. The PSP looks like a Gameboy Advance in shape, but is about 3 times as powerful. The PSP itself will have the power of a Playstation 1.5, meaning its better than a Ps1, but not quite a Ps2, which is very nice. The screen is a little larger than a GBA's screen, but the pictures quality will be much better, enough to house games such as Metal Gear Solid, and Gran Turismo 4. The screen ratio will be 16:9, meaning that movies won't need to be changed to fit the PSP, another great add-on. Anyways, the PSP will use a new media disc, the UMD(Universal Media Disc). This disc will have enough storage for long games(Full Fledge Final Fantasy), full feature length movies, and music. With all of this media, Sony needed a way to save it all. They have got it covered with their new memory card, the Memory Stick Pro Duo. You can store game saves, video, and music content, on these sticks that are thinner than a Ps2's memory card. Controls on the PSP are much like the Playstation 2's controller, except that the one and only analog "nub" will be somewhat touch sensitive and won't have the range of motion a Ps2 analog stick. There are also two shoulder buttons, L and R, that are made of a weird clear plastic. All the buttons follow well with the PSP's sleek, yet functionable design. Aside from controlling buttons, the usuall buttons are back, with some new additions. The new buttons are the home button, screen button for changing brightness, the audio button for changing from microphone to headphones, and a different type of volume control. It's not a slider or even a scroll, it is a two button adjustment, one for lowder sound, one for quieter. This way of adjusting volume is much like a TV, which would be a good nickname for the PSP, the portable TV, with much more. The PSP will definitely be something the mobile world has never seen, it's also something the mobile world (i.e., Nintendo) really needed, some good competition. But with the analog stick, UMDs, and memory stick, will it be like many other old Nintendo competetors, way too expensive? It seems so. If you don't care about price get it, if $300 is too much though, look at an Xbox first, or maybe the Nintendo DS. -j0sh
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