Note from Kspraydad:
This is a bit of 'speculation' on my part...based on the FCC ID it certainly seems that this is PSP and not PS3 related.
Question for developer types...is it normal to have a new devkit this late in the game or is this a possible PSP2 thing?
It appears as though the PSP is actually doing well enough to exceed Sony's own expectations. Instead of the estimated 15 million units, it appears they'll sell closer to 16 million.
New PSP, new problems. The recently released PSP-3000 does get rid of the PSP-2000's ghosting issues, but has issues all its own: On the official PlayStation forums, PSP-3000 owners are bringing word that the new PlayStation Portable suffers from scanlines and icky interlacing defects during video playback and gaming. One forum member writes, "I am not happy about my 'upgrade'." In an official statement, Sony says this is no accident.
After a strong start and a decent 2007, the PSP has lost its luster with third party developers, Edge Magazine has found, and is quietly being abandoned in favor of more lucrative projects.
The details of their findings were presented in a four-page analysis of the PSP's software and hardware sales for the past three years, beginning with the release of the first PSP iteration in 2005
D3Publisher is bringing its PSP library to the PlayStation Store, meaning that games like Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords and WTF: work time fun will shed their UMD mortal coils, becoming glorious digital downloads at prices well below their real world retail predecessors.
Hi, everyone, there have been reports about the battery life of the new PSP system (PSP-3000) being shorter than the current model (PSP-2000), following an interview we recently did with Gamespot. I’d like to make a correction and clarify that the new PSP will have equivalent battery life to the current PSP...
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It's probably a new one with the mic functionality...or even the screens maybe.
Devkits get refreshed about as often as console hardware does. There were PSTwo versions of the PS/2 devkits, for example.