After months of speculation, Sony unveiled a single piece of concept art which indicates what its forthcoming PSP game deck might look like. At Sony's Corporate Strategy Meeting, held today in New York City, the concept art of the PSP showed a thin, rounded rectangular handheld game deck with a 4.5-inch 16:9 letterbox LCD screen, sporting a snap-on cover and hand lanyard.

　　The slide, PSP concept art generated by Sony Design Center staff, was introduced by Ken Kutaragi, Sony Corp.'s executive deputy president. His presentation followed those of Nobuyuki Idei, chairman and group CEO, Kunitake Ando, president and group COO, and Howard Stringer, vice chairman and Sony Group Americas representative.

　　Control-wise, the PSP concept model has a directional pad on one side and the traditional four PlayStation buttons on the other. Both are covered with the same slippery-looking finish as the deck's screen. As announced earlier this year, PSP games will come on Sony's 1.8GB, 60mm-wide Universal Media Discs, which will snap into the rear of the unit.

　　For more on the PSP's features, check out GameSpot's in-depth coverage of the deck's debut. The PSP's specifications are:

　　PSP CPU Core

　　MIPS R4000 32-bit core

　　128-bit bus

　　1-333MHz (1.2V)

　　8MB eDRAM main memory

　　2.6Gbps bus bandwidth

　　FPU, VFPU (2.6 billion flops)

　　3D graphics extended instructions

　　I Cache, D Cache

　　PSP Media Engine

　　MIPS R4000 32-bit core

　　128-bit bus

　　1-333MHz (1.2V)

　　2MB eDRAM submemory

　　I-Cache, D-Cache

　　90nm CMOS

　　PSP Graphics Core

　　1-166MHz (1.2V)

　　256-bit bus

　　2MB eDRAM (VRAM)

　　5.3Gbps bus bandwidth

　　664 million pixels per second pizel fill rate

　　3D curved surface and 3D polygon engine

　　Support for compressed textures, hardware clipping, morphing, bone, tessellation, bezier, b-spline (NURBS)

　　Maximum of 33 million polygons per second

　　24-bit full color (RGBA)

　　Sound Core

　　VME (Virtual Mobile Engine)

　　Reconfigurable DSP

　　166MHz (1.2 V)

　　128-bit bus

　　5 giga operations per second

　　CODEC capabilities

　　3D sound, 7.1 channels

　　Synthesizer, effecter, and other abilities

　　ATRAC3 plus, AAC, MP3 for audio

　　Media

　　UMD (Universal Media Disc)

　　60mm-diameter disc

　　660nm laser diode

　　1.8GB capacity (dual-layered disc)

　　11Mbps transfer rate

　　AES crypto system

　　Unique disc ID

　　Shock proof

　　Regional code system

　　Parental lock system

　　Repeat ordering system

　　Other Specifications

　　16:9-format widescreen TFT LCD (480x272 pixels, 24-bit full color)

　　MPEG4 AVC decoder

　　Wireless LAN (802.11)

　　IrDA (Infrared Data Association)

　　USB 2.0

　　Memory Stick

　　AV in/out

　　Stereo headphone out

　　Lithium ion battery

　　Expansion port