PSP to get keyboard in mid-2009
by Justin McElroy 
{ Jan 8th 2008 at 2:00PM }
We've seen keyboards for the PSP before, but now it appears that Sony is crafting their own first-party peripheral for those tired of the excruciating phone pad text entry. Gamespot reports that a design hasn't been settled on (the image to the right is a dirty fake), but that the add-on would arrive in the middle of 2009 ... just four short years after the system's release. In that same timely spirit, we'd like to humbly request a rubber cover to make the Nintendo 64's analog stick less hard on Mario Party-playing palms and an HDMI port for our Intellivision. Ah well, at least your grandchildren won't have to suffer the same text-entry indignities as yourself.
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JM @ Feb 16th 2008 12:17AM
Well atleast they are making cool stuff for the PSP but... idk making a touch screen psp...? well if they make that shit up everyone will buy it, BUT if they drop the PSP then the PSP is gonna be fucked up! and if the PSP survive's the fall the screen is gonna be scratched and the keyboard thing well it's a good idea cuz' everyone hate's the PSP's web browser just because of the way you text it it's kinda hard too when you're in a hurry but yay! atleast they are making it! or made it...anyway's about the PSP thing with phone thing's it's a good idea too BUT! where your going to talk?? the PSP doesn't have anything the phone's have well almost they should put Bluetooth to it! now that's gonna rock! and make a 100GB memory stick for it! (it's gonna cost ALOT!) but it's worth it! and yeah about what rax-g said about the PSP running any video format and picture format's cuz I have a lot of GIF image's for PSP and they should make it run in like a normal wallpaper! make any song format run in it too well I didn't like the touch screen thing but it's cool anyway's well that's all I think...C'ya!
PS: can I buy the PSP keyboard separately?? answer fast plz!
Moofree @ Jan 8th 2008 2:04PM
I'd rather have a touchscreen.
Fernando Rocker @ Jan 8th 2008 2:08PM
They will copy Nintendo with the PSP 2.0... don't worry.
TJ0331 @ Jan 8th 2008 2:18PM
Oh yes Fernando, because Nintendo was the first to use touch screen.
Fernando Rocker @ Jan 8th 2008 2:20PM
We are talking about videogames companies... about Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft. The DS and PSP...
Yes... Nintendo was the first one in use touchscreen as the primary device in a gaming handheld.
Double J @ Jan 8th 2008 2:25PM
I think a little handheld called Game.com would beg to differ.
McWeen @ Jan 8th 2008 2:32PM
Game.com had internet also...although it was text based.
rockintom @ Jan 8th 2008 4:59PM
Game.com also featured a stunning 3 fps on almost all games! Glory to the Game.com!
machrc @ Jan 8th 2008 2:13PM
screw the typing.. where is my GTpsp? I still have the 1007k model and now it serves as a great snesx genesis nes emulator
http://www.psp-games.us/img/games/gt.jpg
B1gC72 @ Jan 8th 2008 4:21PM
i feel your pain. that was my most wanted launch title....3 years later, im still waiting.....
Hashbrown_Hunter @ Jan 8th 2008 7:26PM
the GT devs said they're already working on it and will release it after GT5
Marty @ Jan 8th 2008 2:24PM
So I guess the long-term goal for PSP is to perform a slow Frankenstein transformation into the N*Gage...?
xFenixKnightx @ Jan 8th 2008 2:31PM
Im glad I sold mine and kept my DS. All that jazz and its still getting its ass wooped by the DS bwahahahaha!
cc123 @ Jan 8th 2008 6:45PM
Do you two dipshits ever take a break or are you aspiring to reach Fernando's stature?
Mr.ESC @ Jan 8th 2008 8:55PM
Weird the PSP is probably the 3rd best selling device this gen(Japanese Charts FTW) and the poor guy is still compared to the Ngage.
FrankTheCrank @ Jan 8th 2008 2:43PM
Mid 2009...Jesus H. Christ...that's a friggin year and a half away...by that time, DS 3.0 will be out.
Fernando, get over it, everyone is going touchscreen.
PSP should have went with an internal drive and ditched UMD....created an iTunes interface for PC and go with the whole PC to PSP model. Download favorites games, load them up, take them with you. PSP with an 80GB drive would be SWEET. If Apple can do it, Sony surely could.
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Jan 8th 2008 2:48PM
yes, I agree that this would be awesome.
Just like UMD-R's would have been awesome.
Neither will ever happen, though.
FidliousWong @ Jan 8th 2008 3:04PM
Problem with that option is every other day you see people bitching and bitching and bitching about downloaded games having zero trade-in value, etc, etc.
Now, while that would be a cool feature, do you really think an ala carte PSP service would somehow avoid the "sony is teh evil" rants we see here every fucking day?
The idea is sound, the people are morons. Morons hate ideas, idea becomes unprofitable.
Besides, there is still the good old fashioned love of changing games and manuals I'm not willing to give up.
Kwipper @ Jan 9th 2008 9:18PM
Yeah, an 80 GB drive that is hard drive based. Do you know what that means? It means it's using spinning platters and stuff.. on a portable device. 3 years time that hard drive will be pretty much dead and needs to be replaced.
Superstar90 @ Jan 8th 2008 2:59PM
Well, at least in 2009 I can surf the shitty web browser a little bit faster now!
BigD145 @ Jan 8th 2008 3:01PM
A year and a half? What are they doing, putting one guy on the assembly line to cover however many million units? Anyone with half a brain could get a final prototype in a month or two. This should have been done two years ago.
dizzy @ Jan 8th 2008 3:07PM
Your comment makes me imagine some poor factory worker out of Schindler's List... but that would make Sony to be the Nazis *gasp*
FantomRedux @ Jan 8th 2008 3:26PM
And that would be incorrect how?
It'll probably retail for somewhere between the £30-40 mark anyway knowing Sony, and they'll ship with a lame little IM program that only works with people who are sat next to you, á la Pictochat, but you pay extra :(
rax-g @ Jan 8th 2008 3:44PM
ok, keyboard in 2009.
hey anyone who works for sony psp or have someone who knows someone who works there..please tell them that i want:
a psp with :
>touchscreen like iphone
>remove umd and add harddrive and so as to download games, movies n music,
>make it compatible to run every kind of audio, video features known to mankind,along with pictures of every format.
>a cartridge or memory stick format for current games which run on umd.
>a 5 mp camera, with 3x zoom,flash+night mode and one 1.3mp cam on the front for video call
>a place on side to put chip so to make phone calls
>3g compatible and hspda compatibility, wifi(n)
>full web browser capability, Gps,
well well, let me make it short
i want a psp-ultimate which is basically a pmp+camera+phone or samrt phone+game console+radio/recording device+ every thing u can think of>
many thanks,
i will buy it instantly as soon as it comes to market.
Ben @ Jan 8th 2008 4:06PM
I just got off the phone with Sony... they'll have that by the middle of 2109.
James @ Jan 8th 2008 4:11PM
Yea, they'd have to license the tech off Apple for that.
Mystic @ Jan 8th 2008 4:08PM
Wow, put the skype and webcam thing on top, along with the keyboard, and you got yourself quite the portable gaming device!
HAHAHAHAHA SHEEP!!!!
scrap104 @ Jan 8th 2008 5:36PM
An on-screen qwerty keyboard would be nice. I hate Sony's method of text input.
SonicRift @ Jan 8th 2008 7:09PM
This sort of peripheral would have been useful either at release or when firmware 2.0 came out with the web browser. Anyone ever try to write an email on a PSP?
If it came out tomorrow I'd say too little too late. But it's coming a year and a half from now. I can only laugh.
Hashbrown_Hunter @ Jan 8th 2008 7:31PM
IT'S ABOUT F**KING TIME.
Mr.ESC @ Jan 8th 2008 8:50PM
"an HDMI port for our Intellivision".
Yeah Matel WTF with that?