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PlayStation Portable

Sony’s first handheld paired widescreen portable games with music, movies, and wireless play.

Documented hardware recordA source-linked factual history appears below. Undocumented development, regional, and package details are left unclaimed.

The PSP family evolved through the original PSP-1000, lighter PSP-2000, brighter PSP-3000, sliding digital-only PSP Go, and budget PSP Street. Its unusually large color and special-edition catalog became a collector favorite.

Released
2004 · Exact day not documented
Platform / family
Seventh generation handheld
Format / type
UMD / Memory Stick
Region
Worldwide
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Documented item history

Release and collector context

Source-linked facts

PlayStation Portable is a PlayStation hardware family documented for Worldwide, with a release recorded as 2004 (the exact day and month are not documented). The catalog identifies it as Seventh generation handheld hardware using UMD / Memory Stick. PLAYBACK connects 49 documented hardware variants to this family, including PSP-1000 — Piano Black, PSP-1000 — Ceramic White, PSP-1000 — Ice Silver, PSP-1000 — Champagne Gold, PSP-1000 — Metallic Blue, 44 more.

Research status
Structured source record
01

Release context

The documented release is 2004 (the exact day and month are not documented) for Worldwide on Seventh generation handheld. Date precision is preserved exactly: the archive does not invent a day when the source records only a month or year.

02

Regional differences

This record is scoped to Worldwide. The linked structured source does not document a separate regional title or package difference, so PLAYBACK does not infer one.

03

Physical packaging

The physical format is documented as UMD / Memory Stick. The current structured source does not enumerate every insert, manual, sleeve, or bonus item, so no unverified contents are claimed.

04

Editions and revisions

49 hardware configurations are linked to this family: PSP-1000 — Piano Black, PSP-1000 — Ceramic White, PSP-1000 — Ice Silver, PSP-1000 — Champagne Gold, PSP-1000 — Metallic Blue, PSP-1000 — Pink, PSP-1000 — Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, PSP-2000 — Piano Black, 41 more.

Research sources

  1. consolevariations.com — catalog record ↗