PSP Weekend Warrior: of retail boxes with no UMDs, a porn-filled PSP and a gun to trade for a PSP

John Koller likes to talk about the PSP’s upcoming games. It does get a little stale at times, but it seems like the man really does mean what he says. The past few months alone have been some of the best to have a PSP, what with one game getting announced after another. Hardware-wise, we’re still in Zombieville thanks to the undying PSP2/PSP 4000 rumor, and things even got more interesting this week after the long-awaited portable version of Gran Turismo was rumored to be a launch title for the PSP2. Recap after the jump!

Yeah, John Koller likes to talk about the PSP’s upcoming games, and while it does get a little stale at times, it seems like the man really does mean what he says. The past few months alone have been some of the best to have a PSP, what with one game getting announced after another.

Hardware-wise, we’re still in Zombieville thanks to the undying PSP2/PSP 4000 rumor. Things even got more interesting this week after the long-awaited portable version of Gran Turismo was rumored to be a launch title for the PSP2.

• A kid goes into a Wal-Mart and finds porn in his newly-bought PSP. No, that’s not a setup for a joke. Link.
• This barely made it to this week’s Warrior. A kid goes to school with his father’s guns. He’d like to trade them in for a friend’s PSP, he said. Link
• Words of wisdom from John Koller:
• Fighting words: Third-party exclusivity is so last gen, and Sony doesn’t need to write cheques like Microsoft. Link.
• New PSP franchises, the PSP 4000, and Sony’s plans for UMD. Link.
• Echoing words he himself said, Koller says that we haven’t seen the end of all these PSP game announcements just yet. Link.
• Another PSP2 rumor, this time in the guise of another rumor about a portable Gran Turismo. Link.
• Although its sales dropped compared to last week, the PSP took back the top slot from the DSi in Media Create‘s Japanese hardware sales chart. Link.

Software News

• Advent Children Complete is the end of FF7 universe… for now. In other words, the cow needs to rest for a bit. Link.
• You may not have heard of it before, but horror-survival game ObsCure 2 is getting a PSP remake. Link.
• The PSP’s getting a kinda-new Armored Core game. “Kinda” because it’s a remake of the 7-year-old Armored Core 3. Link.
• For years, Devil May Cry fans hoped that the long-announced PSP version would someday see the light of day. This week, their hopes were dashed. Link.
• The new trailer for Final Fantasy Agito XIII is now online and it shows lots of battle gameplay. Link.
  
• MotorStorm: Arctic Edge devs BigBig Games talks about platform power, icy physics, and new vehicles. Link.
• Is Gran Turismo Portable going to be a PSP2 launch title? That’s what word from the rumor mill points to. Link.
  
• Rock Band: Unplugged won’t be doing a Resistance: Retribution — there’s no PS3-PSP connectivity planned for this game and Rock Band PS3. Link.
• We got to see some preview footage, too. Link.
• The saga of the UMD-less US release of Patapon 2, which led to an outcry among those who’d rather have physical media than a digital download:
• First, the rumor. Link.
• Then the confirmation. Link.
• Finally, the official details. Link.
• SOCOM Fireteam Bravo 3 was announced (Link), and this (Link) is what it’s gonna look like.
• And speaking of how things are gonna look like, we also got a look at the Persona PSP remake’s opening movie. Link.

That’s it for this week’s edition of the PSP Weekend Warrior, folks. Hopefully next week we’ll see more new game announcements and get more info on the games we heard about this week. See you then!