PSP firmware 3.60 reveals hidden USB Charge feature

Was the screen noticably different in any way, brighter, dimmer? What about the speakers? And can we get a good shot of the memory stick slot? No site so far has taken a picture of it.

But can we still pt 2.60 on an old PSP, or rather 3.60 IE?

3.60, I mean...

And another thing, is the screen inset or is it flush like the old PSP. Its hard to tell by most pictures because there appears to be a bevel.

I know Dark Alex just quit, and good thing. I doubt the guy has the skills to keep up with maintaining PSPLite 3.60 and PSPhat 3.60

Could hypothetical the current PSP do Video output over USB....I am sure USB 2.0 can handle that resolution. Couldn't the charging over USB be possible as well?

USB charging is nice, hard to believe it didn't happen already. But I can't even begin to think about picking up one of these until it's been hacked. Someone try to throw some of current hacked firmware on it!

i dont like dark alex

Can anyone confirm what the core slim psp price is? Is it more than the psphat and less than the bundled slims? Or will it be priced at 169 like the core phat one now?

Brandon, the PSP Joystiq has is the Ice Silver addition, it'll come out in September in a bundle for $200.
It'll come with Daxter, 1GB stick, and Family Guy UMD Collection.

The redesigned Piano Black PSP wil go for the same price as the current PSP. 170.

Thanks guys, for some reason it was hard to find any in-writing confirmation of the price of that core pack.

That all i needed to hear to get me to buy one. I already have a 4gb card, so I can buy a slim for 170 and sell my phat to my brother for 70 or so dollars.

Wow that's a great way to alienate their customers. A firmware version that may not work entirely on the PSP 1.0. Also with this disc caching companies are going to probably put more into the games relaying on that caching which will make game load times even longer on the PSP 1.0. Also in response to the fanboys that will try and make remarks at the elite. All that did was add HDMI input to benifit those who couldn't use 1080p through VGA. It never stopped people hindered the proformance of the system to the masses at all. People who needed the HDMI and want 1080p that badly through VGA could buy that version but it never alienated most of the market. Which is what this version will probably do. Over time the games may even use more RAM then there is on the PSP v1.0 unless Sony regulates that. And if that happens we'll be stuck if we don't feel like putting out 200 bucks for a new game system that is currently being dominated by Nintendo.

Also like the Elite the DS Lite never alienated other early adopters who didn't feel like buying it. All it really did was add brightness controls, a better screen and a more comfy design, nothing more.

Sony demoed God Of War for the PSP on a TV during the Gamespot E3 marathon....and wow, that game looks so similar to the PS2 version on a TV. I was impressed.

They aren't fooling anybody. This "redesigned" PSP is just the progression of materials getting lighter, and cheaper. You aren't getting any added value (except for being able to play using your TV as a screen...for the low-res games...woot). Dark Alex quit, but surely someone else will crack the firmware. Even with that said, I wouldn't suggest purchasing this new one above the tried and tested PSP phat (which isn't much bigger -_-)

Dudes, learn to use your cameras. The little flower icon turns on macro mode so the camera can actually focus on the system

Joystiq seriously needs a new camera or learn to use macro on its old one...

I wish I could use a memory stick as cache. I don't see why it couldn't be used since the data could be encrypted first.

Hint: Disable flash and enable macro mode when photographing up close. ;-)

thats 3.50 not 3.60

What the hell?

I'm sorry, I don't like to use expletives, but branching the firmware in to two trees seems like the way to end support for the old model. I'm still waiting for a DLNA client, PSP Store, and a whole host of other features.

Couldnt the new psp have another flash like flash3 and thats were the video out and all the other features are stored. Then if they want to add a feature only too the psp slim, they make a special upgrade that adds data to the flash 3. then all the other updates only change flash0 and flash1.

Oh well, looks like I'm left in the dust. I don't even have enough cash to scrape up for a next-gen system yet. :\ I mean I did buy the slim PS2 a few years ago, but that was only because my fat one died on me. My PSP is in the best shape it ever was. It's not like you couldn't play your PSPhat on a TV before, or USB charge it. Sure it was a bit of a hassle to make a cable to charge it, but if you really wanted it you could. Well, I guess thats the brakes. At least there won't be so many noobs updating their firmware with the fat PSP, asking how to get homebrew capabilities.

That poses a question: Will there be updated security on the PSP2?