PSP this year. Nothing on the battery life

Masa Chatani, Sony chief of technology officer, confirmed that the PlayStation Portable will be released this year in Japan and Q1 2005 on the rest of the world. He also revealed some tech details, but said nothing about the battery life, which has become the greatest doubt about the PSP. This is what Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime had to say about this particular subject:

Those little women at the Tokyo Game Show with those portable consoles strapped to them… What you didn’t see is that those women were having to go recharge the batteries every two hours! (…) We have gone on the record to state that the Nintendo DS will have battery life comparable to the Game Boy Advance SP. Nowhere will you find any mention of the other machines power life. And you have to wonder why…

I think that it’s passed the time for Sony to say something concrete about the battery life… at least admit that it doesn’t last more than two hours. We want the truth!