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Last week we reported that the new brighter PSP 3000 would be arriving in Australian stores on October 16 for a RRP of AUD$299.95. Speculation began circulating the world of the internet soon after that the brighter screen may come at the cost of battery life. John Koller, Director of Marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment America made a comment to spark the rumours with last week but has since corrected his mistake, insisting that the Brighter PSP does not have a weaker battery life compared to its duller counterpart.

"The new PSP will have equivalent battery life to the current PSP, about 4 to 6 hours for games and about 4 to 5 hours for UMD videos," Koller stated on the official PlayStation blog. "While the enhanced screen of the new PSP draws a little more power, our engineers in Japan worked to reduce the power consumption of the overall system including its components, so you won’t have to worry about losing any time when enjoying the more vibrant visuals displayed with the new PSP."

Good news PSP 3000 fans, that brighter screen will not come at the serious cost of battery life.

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goks says:

all good new LCD screen has faster response time

3 hours ago

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Lewace11 says:

I never even thought about this :S

If it was makeing a differance, just CFW it, and slow the CPU down a bit.

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dandaman says:

I found some info at psp-italia about the psp3000 having auto usb connection, noise reduction for movie playing and the screen has 2 colour options, wide and normal...normal is much like the slim screen and will use less power but wide is new and improved and will take up more power.

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ShyGuy says:

insectoid said: I could swear I read the PSP 3000 would have about 30 minutes less battery life...

surprisingly, there were many myths/rumors about the psp-3000 shortens, even though it was announced not very long ago. battery myth was shattred though..

15 hours ago

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insectoid says:

Guess 30 minutes isn't a huge amount of time...

Doesn't affect me anyway, I'm not upgrading

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Vinzor says:

yup. i swear i heard that too.
but i think they say he corrected his comment?

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ICC_06 says:

insectoid said: I could swear I read the PSP 3000 would have about 30 minutes less battery life...

Koller said something alone the lines of it having lesser battery life but now says that was wrong.

20 hours ago

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insectoid says:

I could swear I read the PSP 3000 would have about 30 minutes less battery life...

21 hours ago

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pspwog says:

Oh sweet but I don't really care about the briteness just the graphics and I would get those exteneded life battery that go for like ten hours.Oh yeah and the picture should say SONY remember that it's a different model.

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dandaman says:

I've read that they just added an option to switch between normal and a lower power consuming option that makes the screen look more like the psp slim and last the same amount of time, so technically the battery would last as long but only on the lower setting which would make it lok like a slim...I hope they really have found a way to keep it looking great and use less power but that sounds highly unlikely.

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