New Gran Turismo PSP Screenshots, New Gran Turismo PSP Package

More screenshots were released from PSP IGN of Gran Turismo PSP. And they also released the news about the release of the Gran Turismo Package for the US Release:
Here are the details:

-A Mystic Silver PSP-3000 unit

-Gran Turismo UMD

-Gran Turismo Car Voucher – An exclusive car download, White version of the Corvette ZR-1 for GTPSP

-PSN movie voucher

-2GB Memory Stick

-Sony Music Voucher for US residents.

When I saw the image of the package above, I was saddened because it didn’t have the good looks of the GT Package that will be released in Japan:

As you can see, it might be a plain Piano Black 3000 system, but the sides are grey, the PSP Ring at the back is also in grey finish and the L-R Buttons are smoked Grey as well. And at the front, the PSP sports a semi-opaque GT Logo. Just how cool and far better is that compared to the US release? But still, I hope they can still change the unit. Or else, I would really wait for the Japanese version. 😀

here are some of the screenshots:

PSP-3000’s BIG problem

If you’ve heard the news that the PSP-3000 is coming this year with new features, you might as well heard its new “screen” which features brightness adjustment, bla bla bla so on. Sony said it will be better than the screen in PSP-2000. Although that might sound reasonable considering the fact that PSP-3000 is the latest model, Engadget.com have tested this and it seems that a problem immediately came up.

Please take a look at this picture from Engadget.com:

Notice the interlacing in the screen of PSP-3000? It is clear that PSP-2000’s screen stands better compared to the latest screen. Sony is looking into this problem and an update into the engadget post was placed saying that this “interlacing” was just one of the features of the new screen and there are no plans yet of fixing this problem with a new software..

Visit Engadget : Sony “looking into” PSP-3000 interlacing problems
Man, that was close. My younger brother is planning to get the new model this Christmas as a replacement for his old PSP. Good thing my older brother convinced him not to get it yet, especially the firmware installed in the new PSP-3000 which is the Official Firmware 5.00 is still under DaX’s development. Although DaX has already released CFW 5.00 M33, we still don’t know how it works especially on a PSP-2000 unit. Whew!