The PSP is a lot cheaper now. Sony has decided to go at its inventory and just chop $40 off the prices of existing systems. If you head into a store, online or real, you should be able to pick up a PSP-3000 alone for $129.99 or one of those nice PSP-3000 starter bundles for $159.99. Maybe you should look and see if any of those Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep or God of War: Ghost of Sparta PSP Entertainment Packs are still sitting on store shelves…

Sony has three new PSP bundles coming out in Japan soon, all targeted towards specific demographics. On February 17, 2011, anyone in Japan with ¥19,800 (~$240) can get one of two different Monster Hunter Portable 3rd Value Packs or a PSP Value Pack for Girls…

The God of War: Ghost of Sparta PSP bundle is going to have a friend joining it on store shelves, the Madden 11 PSP bundle. The Madden 11 bundle isn’t as extravagant or expensive, but it does offer buyers another alternative when it debuts August 10, 2010…

Hideo Kojima’s new installment of the Metal Gear Solid franchise is out. You can insert the triumphant fanfare soon. I will tell you that I wanted to like the game and, well, I didn’t like it.

I loved it.

Good news for Kingdom Hearts fans and PSP owners, Square Enix has made some major announcements about Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep! First, and most importantly, the game will be released on September 7, 2010 in the US. It’ll have a fantastic voice cast, featuring Jesse McCartney (as Ventus, naturally), Leonard Nimoy, Mark Hamill, James Woods and Willa Holland. I hope Leonard Nimoy is Master Xehanort!

There is also going to be a GameStop exclusive PSP bundle. A price hasn’t been set for it yet, but it wil come with a silver PSP-3000, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, a 4gb memory stick and some movie. Neither the PlayStation.Blog or Square Enix’s press release mention a title for the movie or a price yet. I’ll guess it’ll be $199.99, like all PSP bundles. Also, there’s no word on whether or not the PSP will have any kind of custom, Kingdom Hearts embellishments.

Let’s watch the trailer that appeared on the PlayStation.Blog…

Sega did quite well last year when it decided to team up with Crypton and release Hatsune Miku: Project Diva, a PSP game based on the Vocaloid mascot Miku Hatsune. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva was released July 2, 2009, and went on to become one of the most popular PSP games of the year. Sega’s hoping to repeat that with Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd on July 29, 2010, and this time is going all out with a bundle and PSP accessories.

The bundle is being dubbed the Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd Ippai Pack and comes with a turquoise PSP-3000 (the same color as Miku’s hair), Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd, a turquoise Project Diva carrying pouch, a turquoise Project Diva 2nd cloth for wiping the PSP screen and, you guessed it, a turquoise strap to attach to the PSP….

For shame Sony! Why does Mexico get the camouflage PSP, but not the United States? We’re all in North America and playing favorites is wrong.

In Japan, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker was released in a bundle that included a camouflage PSP-300. Pretty nifty. So, of course, residents of North America were a tad hurt when they learned that the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker bundle that would be released here would include an evergreen PSP-3000 instead. But we accepted it, reasoned that the really cool PSPs don’t always get released overseas and decided evergreen really isn’t that bad a color for a PSP after all.

But now Sony has announced via the Mexican PlayStation Blog that Latin America is getting a Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker bundle with the camouflage PSP-3000…

If you live in the US or Canada and have always wanted a green PSP, you’re going to get your chance to own one. Sony has announced, via its PlayStation.Blog that it is going to be releasing a Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP Entertainment Pack on June 8, 2010. As you can see from the image above, the bundle is going to include a green PSP. I’d say it’s an evergreen, or perhaps even shamrock green.

The Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP Entertainment Pack has your standard bundle content. You get a Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker UMD, a 2GB memory stick and green PSP-3000. Oh, sorry, I mean a “Spirited Green” PSP-3000…

Famitsu featured an interesting news story pertaining to the PSPgo today. The system launched November 1, 2009 in Japan, and Enterbrain already has the first day sales figures for Sony’s latest incarnation of the PSP. Brace yourself – only 28,275 PSPgos were sold at launch. A PSPgo costs ￥26,800 (~$296.17) in Japan.

That number isn’t all that impressive when you compare it to sales figures for other portable system incarnations. As AndriaSang pointed out, the DSi and PSP-3000 were bigger sellers. IGN reported that in the first two days of the DSi’s launch in Japan, 170,779 DSis were sold and AndriaSang reported 141,270 PSP-3000s were sold in the first four days…

Companies like to brag about good sales figures. When a new system – or new iteration of an existing system – is released on the market, companies want consumers to know how successful it is. It isn’t a bad idea, really. If people see a system or a console is a winner, then they’ll be more likely to jump on the bandwagon as well.

The thing is, we aren’t seeing that with Sony’s PSPgo.

The PSPgo debuted October 1, 2009. It’s been out for nearly two weeks and Sony has yet to start gloating about the system’s sales. There were no first two- or three-day sales figures reported. Sony hasn’t even released first-week sales figures. This leaves consumers to wonder whether or not the PSPgo is really doing all that well.