Robin Hoods Playground

Developers are already at on games for a successor to Sony's PSP, which will itself see a new iteration of hardware over the next twelve months according to rumours.

Citing unnamed publisher sources, Eurogamer is reporting that 2009 will see a new version of the existing hardware, although the update's likely to be as slight as the one recently witnessed with the PSP 3000, which offered an improved screen, built-in microphone and altered button configuration.

Details on the PSP2 are scarce, however, and despite Sony's David Reeve's claims to the contrary last week, a follow-up is somewhat inevitable given the success of the original. Neither system specifications or a firm release window have been granted to the rumoured successor, though if claims that developer's are already at work on software for the machine a reveal shouldn't be too far along the horizon.