Sony sticks by PSP’s 10-year life span

Sony has long been claiming that all its consoles have a 10-year life cycle. Its claims of console longevity seemed inflated at first, but once you take into account the life cycles of its past consoles, those claims hold some merit. The PSP reached its third anniversary on March 24, 2008, in North America and if John Koller, senior marketing manager for the PSP, is to be believed then even the handheld is supposed to have a 10-year life cycle.

Jon Koller told IGN in an interview, “We’ve talked about the PSP being a 10-year product, but a 10-year product in the continued… how can I put this… in the continued lifecycle, so we obviously had the 1000, we have the 2000, so the PSP as it was first launched in March 2005 isn’t going to the be the PSP that it ends up as in 10 years, but it will still be a very strong portable gaming device that is centered in gaming and has a lot of multi-functional features.”

So, according to Mr. Koller, the PSP will see changes and iterations but it will retain its core over the entire 10 years of its shelf life. This is really perplexing and tantamount to saying that the Playstation, Playstation 2 and Playstation 3 are the same system, which they are obviously not. Anyways let’s take him at his word for the moment.

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