PS3 and PSP news from 1up.com:
...Sony plans to release the system in Japan, North America, and Europe simultaneously this November. That's right, the PS3 will be in stores before the end of the year - within the first 10 days of November, to be exact. According to the company, it will have a production capacity of 1 million units a month to attempt to keep up with the demand. 6 million units are estimated to be shipped by the end of March 2007.
The PS3 will be backwards compatible for PS1 and PS2 games and with its online service, it can serve as a wireless access point for the PSP.
The PSP will drop in price to $199 at the end of this month and there will be a browser upgrade that will include Flash support sometime this spring.
Kutaragi gave details on some later technology enhancements to look forward to this fall as well: RSS support, video and voice-over-IP, and a USB GPS receiver that will interface with new games (a version of Hot Shots Golf was mentioned for this). A PSP EyeToy camera will release in September and will feature a version of EyeToy Play and video chat.
Posted by marybeth at March 15, 2006 07:25 AM Shiny Things