Posted May 14, 2006 at 12:17PM by Kyle M. Listed in: E3, PSP
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Here's the first shot of Sony's upcoming camera attachment for the PSP. This shot was taken by journalists at this years E3 gaming expo in LA. To me, it looks just like a smaller EyeToy, but it does fit in well with the PSP's styling, and should look something like this when it comes out in September.

It looks like it will eat up the PSP's battery life too. Most UMD games can get 4 hours out of the PSP whilst on the lowest brightness setting, but I'm willing to bet that this peripheral will half that.


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   by BM03 (Unregistered) - 2006-05-14
 » Music on my expirience

I have 5 hours of school and I always have my PSP with music even BEFORE going out and AFTER arriving home, so I listen to my music for about 6-7 hours, and my PSP's always at 40-60%. I don't use my volume on the max, close, but definetively not on the max.

So my guess is... around 10 hours?

   by hurr (Unregistered) - 2006-05-14
 » My thoughts:

Batery life wouldn't be a problem for me. People complain about 4ish hours being low, yet I can rarely find more than an hour or occasionally two to use it in a given day.

One issue is that it protrudes from the psp. It won't fit in the case with the camera attached and I'd be scared to put it in my pocket in the first place. Idealy, the UMD reader wouldn't be there and there would be a camera in its place, along with more batery space, memory, or something of that nature.

And, of corse, the firmware updates will be hell. I love my homebrew. ;_;

   by DS SUCKS!!! (Unregistered) - 2006-05-14
 » to 62

Uhmm,...... I don't think so man.... they'll ask you probably 4 a serial number.. or something like that

   by butters (Unregistered) - 2006-05-14
 » battery

about the battery life. I have had 3 psps I returned 2 to get a perfect one.. I noticed each psp the battery life was different on all 3 when doing the same thing on all 3.. The first one I had the battery lasted about 6 in half hours while using umd game, with brightness all the way up. Second one was about 4 in half hours and 3rd one was about 5 in half to 6 hours..

   by errrr (Unregistered) - 2006-05-14
 » microphone

I got a microphone attachment with a game -translator from Japan - it only lasted about a week - and now I cant get another one......

hte camera would wanna be more robust i rekon.....

   by PORNO"Z FUN AZ HELL (Unregistered) - 2006-05-14
 » Finally , Cant Wait

wish it wasnt soo noticable and they would have kept with the slight hump idea ......i was really looking forward on pertending im playing a game but really zooming in on a fine chickz ass and snapping off a few...
then when she comes by i click home and menu quickly

hopefully sony wont make the eyetoy the only available camera and will later introduce a more pricy psp camera with quality to that of the cyber shot or let competitors have a go at making high quality cameras for it

anybody know if i can preorder the ps3 yet....i have $680 and am ready to preorder....except i want it around 3 or 4 months after the bugz get fixed with the first batch made...is that possible?

cant wait for this

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-05-14
 » cool

I hope this can take pictures (at least 2.5 megapixels) and record videos too! Hopefully you can also point it in different directions by rotating it because it would be kinda stupid not being able to do that. DS has touchscreen but PSP has camera and most likely be able to use it somehow in games or something, even though I don't see how you can do that when the PSP's so small and not all people have the TV Tuner thing or w/e. Nice Sony haha.

   by David (Unregistered) - 2006-05-14
 » Cool!

Kevin102, are you retarded? It's a camera, of course you will be able to take pics. Do you think people will actually buy a camera which cant even take picture? Well it sounds like you are dumbg enough to.

That camera is looking sweeeeeeeet! I cant wait to give it a try on my psp!

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   by iNeRnOmAx (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » Meh

Won't upgrade for this unless it's over 4MP ... otherwise its worthless

   by NOTSOSILENTBOB (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » SO WHAT?

I guess im one of the few that thinks this is as lame of a gimmick as a dual screen hand held with a touch screen.

I just dont see my self needing or wanting this in the least....

***** a camera I want a better battery.

   by iggiafrica (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » PS1 EMU

For the ps1 emu, it wouldn't be hard for sony to make the file only run on your mac address.

   by liftyourpanties (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » hope

hope the camera hav functions like a picture editor or somthin, dat'll be cool man!

   by Sony Hater (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » lame.

***** the PSP and ***** PS3 especially.

   by raider (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » Its a fake

Look at the power button it is orange rather than green

   by Robmanzzz (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » ...

That means that it's charging... Did you ever look at your psp?

   by Jimbo (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » 62

No, My guess is they will make you pay and download all the games regardless of wether you own the original or not.

   by Roman Child (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » Lol 76

Lol what a Noob omfg

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   by d (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » d

if its charging wheres the cord

   by anthony (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » camera phone?

Will this lead to the futures first public phone that you can see and talk to people with a PSP screen? Pretty sweat i would say!

   by *****wittaattitude (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » firmware updates wont be needed

mph will find out a way to scam it ahaha, i heard hescoming out with a new firmware launcher

   by Jimbo (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » PSP's are sh*t!!

I brought a PSP when they were launched in the UK six months ago - and its the worst £ 180 I've ever spent! What a load of f**king sh*t!

I made the mistake of upgrading from 2.00 to 2.60 for the sake of some stupid RSS feed which stutters along at the best of times! The only thing that made the PSP worth owning was the fact I could downgrade to 1.5 and play ROMs rather than spend 35 bucks on a game i'll probably only play once! B*llocks!

Who gives a f*ck about homebrew! What kind off sad f*ck sits and messes around with that!

   by ... (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » ^

hahahahaha!!!! Lol ...

   by anomynous (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » Cool

thats cool

   by punejap (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » wi-fi?

what if you can send pics to other people on psps or ob the internet? could this be the start of psporno?

   by ice1121 (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » cool

iI think that it will be cool if you could use the camera as a video camera online when playing some games. and it is a great idea about the camera.

   by ? (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » screen shot

how do u take screen shots and i have FW 2.7

   by Marq (Unregistered) - 2006-06-27
 » ...

Im pretty sure that this is a mini Eye toy, I saw it on a magazine, and it says its coming in November or October in 2007

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   by duggy (Unregistered) - 2006-10-09
 » 15?

the camera is 1.3 mega pixels and can take only 15 seconds of footage at a time.

   by PSP Official (Unregistered) - 2006-10-18
 » Webcam

The camera is 1.3mp. It will be used for online and offline multiplayer gaming with a small box in the corner of your camera. It is like a display picture for playing games like SOCOM. There will be an official dock made by sony espescially for the psp. The camera is not finished and dont get your hopes up. It wont be available until Oct 2007. Enjoy

   by PSP Official (Unregistered) - 2006-10-18
 » PSP Camera

There will be no interaction with games, like the previous eye toy. The camera will require an update of 3.5. This was a webcam altered into a psp camera. The usb port was swapped around with the laptop attachment. The camera will not power save and the battery will hopefully last 5 hours if all goes to plan.



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