Yoshida said: "When Ken Kutaragi moved on and Kaz Harai became the president of SCE, the first thing Kaz said was, 'get Worldwide Studios in on hardware development'. So he wanted developers in meetings at the very beginning of concepting new hardware, and he demanded SCE people talk to us developers." When asked if the approach applied to new hardware already being created, he added: "Yes, we are undergoing many activities that we haven't yet been talking about in public. Some future platform-related activities."
Describing the trademarked device as a: 'Portable electronic device for receiving and reading text and images and sound through wireless Internet access and for displaying electronically published materials, namely, books, journals, newspapers, magazines, multimedia presentations.' However, it added that the product would handle 'Computer game software recorded on optical disc.'
The PSP2 (assuming that this is what Yoshida is talking about) sounds to be more like an upcoming Sony phone than anything else. With the addition of downloadable books, text messaging, the phone would be the only missing link between PSP and iPhone. Looks like Sony is trying to take hold of the market that Apple has dominated for some time now, but after failing to conquer Nintendo will the addition of discs and Sony grade games be enough to pull people from Apple's iPhone trance?
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