PSP Console obzavedetsya sliding screen.

The new model PSP will go on sale later this year, says Eurogamer, with reference to a source close to the company Sony. Reporters found that the portable console is actually deprived of slots for disks format UMD. In addition, PSP-4000 will be different from previous versions of the game system, the existence of sliding the screen.
According to an anonymous source, when closed, gamers will not be able to use most of the buttons PSP. However, they are still able to play in such projects as the LocoRoco, where management need only shifty. Opened in the console will not differ in functionality from the PSP-3000. The journalists also stress that the size of the screen will not change.
Representatives of Sony refused to comment on this information. Note that this is not the first rumors of a new model of PSP. In late February of this information has confirmed the game Earthworm Jim creator David Perry (David Perry). According to him, Sony refuses to UMD-slot, and will continue to distribute games through its own online service. Gamers will be able to burn them directly to a memory card PSP.
Already aware that the Japanese unit of the company is looking for people to test new devices related to the Trademark PlayStation or PSP. In doing so, the developers did not specify what it is they are working at the moment.
The first model PSP came out in Japan in late 2004. By mid-February this year Sony managed to sell around the world 50 million portable game systems. This PSP is still ranked second in the market of portable game systems, yielding DS. According to the company's Nintendo, by the end of last year, has sold 96.22 million of these consoles.