Sony: PSP Will Have Ten Year Life Span

Even though the Nintendo DS Lite is performing better in the marketplace, the crew at Sony are still very confident that the PSP is and will continue to be a successful portable entertainment device for the masses. They believe this so much so that they claim the PSP will be a 10-year platform.

This is according to John Keller, the PSP’s senior marketing manager. As you may know, Sony’s portable gamer just celebrated its third anniversary last week, so this means that it would have to last another seven years to hold up to the 10-year claim to fame. Even so, in the last 36 months, we’ve seen countless firmware updates as well as at least one hardware refresh. These have brought about new features and functions that were not available on the original PSP.

This isn’t to say that, seven years from now, you’ll still be holding and playing the same system; you might be using it to watch movies rather than play games in the future.

In this way, it sounds like what Sony really means is they’ll be keeping the general idea of the portable system and the PSP branding, but it probably won’t be exactly the same device seven years from now. Sort of like how Nintendo approached the Game Boy, I guess.

Source: Crunchgear

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