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The PSP was designed by Shin'ichi Ogasawara (小笠原伸一) for the Sony Computer Entertainment subsidiary of Sony Corporation.Early models pre-installed with 1.xx firmware were made in Japan but in order to cut costs, Sony has farmed out PSP production to non-Japanese manufacturers, mainly in China for units pre-installed with firmware version 2.00 and above.
The PlayStation Portable [a] (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.It was first released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005, and in PAL regions on September 1, 2005, and is the first handheld installment in the PlayStation line of consoles.
Playback controls on a CD player. Control symbols on a Sony Betamax Portable.. In digital electronics, analogue electronics and entertainment, the user interface may include media controls, transport controls or player controls, to enact and change or adjust the process of video playback, audio playback, and alike.
On a PSP with firmware 3.70+, it is possible to listen to music and view photos simultaneously. On the PSP-2000, PSP-3000, and PSPgo models, there are a number of additional colors available for the XMB. On a PSP with at least system software 4.20, the background "waves" effect has changed, with two options under theme, then color.
(Sony's handheld consoles, the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Portable, had monochrome buttons.) Its more ergonomic design is bigger, rounder, and heftier than the DualShock 4. [ 54 ] The light bar has been moved from the top of the controller to the horizontal edges of the touchpad; player number is indicated by five LEDs below the touchpad.
In the place of the "Analog" mode button of previous Sony dual analog controllers (Dual Analog, DualShock and DualShock 2) is a jewel-like "PS button" with the PlayStation logo, which can be used to access the home menu or XMB (after system software version 2.40 [7]), switch controller inputs and turn the console or the controller on or off.
Based on the basic button configuration established with Nintendo's Super NES Controller, the PlayStation controller added a second pair of shoulder buttons for the middle fingers. Intended to update the gamepad for navigating 3D environments such as the ones PlayStation was designed to generate, the concept behind featuring shoulder buttons ...
PSP-1000 [1] PSP-2000 [1] PSP-3000 [1] PSP Go (PSP-N1000) [1] PSP Street (PSP-E1000) [1] Image Original release date December 12, 2004 (Japan) August 30, 2007 (Hong Kong) October 14, 2008 (North America) October 1, 2009 (NA and EU) October 26, 2011 (EU and PAL) Discontinued December 2014 December 2014 December 2012 April 20, 2011 December 2014 ...