i refer to the article by David Ellis on the new PSP speculation here.

When i first saw this sliding PSP I whooped with joy, and swear that I’ll get my hands on it if it were ever produced (within a certain budget, of course).

I wouldn’t call it revolutionary… or out of this world… but I was just very delighted by the concept. You see, PSP 1000-3000 has always looked the same (a bit thinner, but yeah) with the same old functions (you wouldn’t really call upgraded firmware a huge improvement would you), so this one looked pretty awesome in contrast.

Plus, I have a huge love for sliding phones, and I think a sliding PSP is superb, if it doesn’t add to the thickness that much (it’ll be good if we can add a tune when you slide up and down xD). You can immediately see that the screen has gotten much wider and bigger, but I’m not sure putting the L and R trigger keys on the top screen is good (since you may keep pushing your screen down whenever you trigger happy).

This PSP also comes with a 1.3 MP camera (though you can’t see it in the picture), and it seems that Sony is doing away with the UMD slot and replacing it with a flash hard disk. Well, it may be good for someone who has downloaded all their stash of games their entire life… but I’m a hard core collector of certain RPG games, so I kind of see my UMDs rotting away in the near future if that were to happen. Not that I can’t easily get it in a file format and put it in the Memory Stick…

Things that I’d really like to see in the new PSP, however: some compatibility with PS2 and PS3 games. No idea how they are gonna make it, but seeing the Little Big Planet screenshot on this demo model is really, really tempting (I’d love for the new FF13 to be on it as well). I’d pay to have these PS3 titles converted to PSP format. And touchscreen is good if it still keeps the Wi-Fi, since it’s quite troublesome to scroll through all the alphabets to type. I’d also want compatibility with movie formats like avi and divx, because it’s so troublesome to have to convert movie files to mp4 for PSP.

But the article is just a speculation. Perhaps, if we generate enough interests, Sony might really invest in this. Because you can’t just tempt your consumers and tell them nothing’s gonna happen after that. It will be such a huge, HUGE letdown.