I found the article I was talking about In short: *It was NOT developed by SCE but under the supervision of Sony chairman Nobuyuki Idei and president Andou Kunitake. There was no imput from SCE at all. *The hardware was codenamed E.T. *It had a casing around the size of a GBA, a color LCD and a Memory Stick slot. *Games would run off the memory stick, and you would download the games using special kiosks at game stores, kinda what you could do with a NDS blank disk on japan during the 80s. *Both Capcom and Square were developing games for it back in the day. *Work on the project began around 1998, and there was a working prototype in 2000. Launch was planned for 2001 but in July of that year the entire project got canned forever due to the decision of putting all the eggs on one basket: PS2. Honestly I find it almost amazing that the very high ranks of Sony tought of a on-demand service for games using blank memory sticks, seeing this company is always trying to shove some new type of weird media down our throats. This must be the only case of a PS console that was ahead of its time:lol: Too bad theres not even pictures of the hardware, let alone a video...
not entirely new info, i remember back just after the psp announcement (e3 2003) and PSM wrote up an article on the possible designs for the system....there was a small write up about it there.... ...would be neat to see for sure!
I know, I read the article back in 2003 (man I cant believe its been 4 years since that!). Honestly I've no idea how difficult would be to see any pictures leak into the net...
