Rumors about yet another iteration of the classic Sony PlayStation Portable hardware are stirring again, this time because an advertisement for a PSP accessory bundle is marked as being compatible with the PSP-1000 (the original model), PSP-2000 (the slim revision), PSP-3000 (the current UMD-equipped iteration), PSP-N1000 (known in the marketplace as the PSPgo), and — here's the shock — PSP-4000 (which technically doesn't exist). Naturally, this has caused a little excitement that Sony has an imminent update to the PSP-3000, but don't try to preorder it just yet. Negative Gamer contacted the company behind the advertisement to find out what's up:
A4G’s licence manager Angela Jones told Negative Gamer, after looking up the advert online, that it was a “mistake on our part” and that she wasn’t sure what had happened. She added that Sony weren’t, as far as she knew, releasing a new console.
Did someone jump the gun or is this a legitimate mistake? I have a difficult time believing that this ad made it all the way through design, approval, and publication without anyone at the source catching the error, and considering how badly Sony wants the PSP to take off into massive success, I can imagine the company continuing to rework the system again and again until one of the units thrown at the wall finally sticks in a big way. Sony isn't about to announce a new PSP in the closing days of the holiday shopping season when they're hopeful that the PSPgo and PSP-3000 are popular gift ideas, so if there is a PSP-4000 coming, I'd expect to hear about it just prior to or at E3 2010. Just a guess on my part.
(via Joystiq)
