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The Playstation Portable
The PlayStation Portable (officially abbreviated PSP) is a handheld console
manufactured and marketed by Sony. Development of the console was
announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on May 11, 2004 at a
Sony press conference before E3 2004.[8] The system was released in
Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005,
and in the PAL region on September 1, 2005.
The PlayStation Portable is the first handheld video game console to use
an optical disc format, Universal Media Disc (UMD), as its primary storage
medium. Other distinguishing features of the console include its
large viewing screen, robust multi-media capabilities, and
connectivity with the PlayStation 3, other PSPs, and the Internet.
Sales of the PSP have (with cyclical exceptions) lagged behind its main
competitor, the Nintendo DS. Nevertheless, the console is "the most
successful non-Nintendo handheld game system ever sold". After the
release of a remodeled, slimmer, and lighter version of the PlayStation
Portable, titled Slim & Lite, in early September 2007, sales quadrupled
in the United Kingdom the following week and increased by nearly 200% in
North America for the month of October. The Slim & Lite had a minor redesign
including a new screen and inbuilt microphone, and has since been followed by the PSP Go.
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