New PSP Details! and finding a current 1st gen PSP since the price drop

Kotaku just ran a story about a new 2nd gen PSP. The 2nd gen PSP is using a LED screen. Most nerds know that LED's use minimal current to shine, so the 2nd gen hand held is rumored to have 4 times the battery life of the current model. It is also rumored to be much slimmer, have redesigned buttons, have 8 gigs of memory built in, and load much faster!
Hopefully with they can shoot for a price tag under $170 dollars to make this a serious competitor to Nintendo's DS Lite.


Finding a current Play Station Portable around the area I live in has been difficult.
I went to a couple big retail stores (Wal-Get = wal-mart and target) and the PSP was as scarce as a Wii! I was extremely surprised. It all must account to the recently announced price drop and the new marketing being done to make sure everyone knows that the PSP is now affordable! I assume that Sony priced the PSP lower to prepare for the launch of the 2nd version, and too allow retailers to move the current units to free up that valuable retail space.