Good times are coming for PlayStation Portable fans. According to a recent press release from Sony Computer Entertainment America, the near future will bring some hardware changes to the console, a title meant to approach “young female gamers,” and the porting of grand PS3 titles such as MotorStorm and LittleBigPlanet. And a whole lot of companies are to get involved with the PSP in the period that follows (i.e. Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Square Enix, Disney Interactive, MTV Games).

There will be a “Lilac” PSP out in July, and the chromatic change will come together with a game called Hannah Montana from Disney Interactive. Gamers, or should I say, gamerettes, will get to fill the cute shoes of the teen starlet, live and design her shows in what is announced to be a “dancing and rhythm action game.” The bundle will also include, on UMD, several episodes from the real Hannah Montana series, special appropriately girlish stickers to decorate that lilac PSP, plus a reasonably girlish 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo.

Ubisoft will come out with a special Assassin’s Creed pack for the PSP, sweetening the deal with a version of the portable console, a “Piano Black”-colored one. On a much lighter note, the Petz series will be one of the least hardcore titles brought by the SCEA on the PSP in 2009: create your own pets and take care of them – if you dare (kitties, horsies and bunnies, oh my!)

On a more noisily serious note, MTV Games and Harmonix will join their occult death metal powers and summon the all powerful Rock Band Unplugged on the PSP. The ported version of the game will put the console's Wi-Fi feature to good use and it will also be the first game on the PSP with its own in-game store with downloadable merchandise.

It's good that the PSP will get much more than lilac and piano black paint jobs this year.  


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