Rumor: New Aibo PS3, PSP Compatible?

[Zinn]

Rumor: New Aibo PS3, PSP Compatible?

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Stuff magazine is running a rumor item on the possibility of an upcoming Aibo, the robotic dog, working with the Playstation Portable and Playstation 3. The rumor goes that the Sony Aibo PS, as they call it, is being resuscitated by Sony's Playstation division in an attempt to "bolster the PS3's arsenal."

The Aibo PS will appear with its own avatar within Home and react in the real world as he does in the PS3's upcoming interactive environment, according to the article. The rumor article goes on to say that you will be able to download new personalities for the dog from the Playstation Network and that the dog will be fully controllable using a PSP via WiFi. The dog's head camera will send a real world vid feed to the PSP's screen as well. The Dpad will control walking movement and the four main buttons will deal with head movement, which seems odd.

The Stuff folks rate this rumor as having a 53 percent probability. Seems like a cool concept, but I wonder if there's the market for it to hit the real world. Who am I kidding? A remote control dog that can send live video from its head, sign me up for a baker's dozen.

Source: Kotaku.com

[ahaxton]

Well Sony did make the best robotic dog ever. I'd like to see how it's improved. Just from the rumor it seems like quite a change. The AI though is really important, and how you can download new personalities through the PSN store seems pretty cool. I might be a nervous wreck though with a robotic dog connected to the internet, cameras, connection to Home. lol. If they do come out with it, I bet I will get it. I almost got the last Aibo, this time with all this stuff rumored to be is way too good to pass up.

[181]

i could imagine downloading a new "Cujo" personality for my Aibo.

[EricJ]

Can we program it so that it answers commands with "Affirmative....Mah-ster"?

[lch]

i so sad when that stringer axe the robotic department.
if the rumour is true, i will buy 1.

[AikonEnt]

It could be the personality of your PS3. When you play against the PS3 and it beats you, it could turn it's little robotic head towards you and laugh. At which point it would probably get punted out of the window

[jw]

I can see it now, the new age of video piracy has begun.
Here is someone sitting in a theater with their new"dog" pirating the latest and greatest.


I love it

[radagast]

Can someone photoshop a pic of Aibo with a dud player in its mouth?

[Clark Kent]

I bet this is mostly for the Japanese market. The Japanese love stuff like this and would help it to compete against the Wii there.

[xtop]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

I bet this is mostly for the Japanese market. The Japanese love stuff like this and would help it to compete against the Wii there.

basically. not to mention it was very expensive

[ESUNintel]

I'd buy an Aibo, I always wanted one but my parents always thought it was a dumb toy, but now I may finally have a chance to get one (for myself ofcourse, since I'm old and work now).

[xtop]

Originally Posted by ESUNintel

I'd buy an Aibo, I always wanted one but my parents always thought it was a dumb toy, but now I may finally have a chance to get one (for myself ofcourse, since I'm old and work now).

you realize the cheaper ones were around 500-600 bucks right? if i remember right the good ones were upwards of 1200

[soniqstylz]

As I said on Neowin, I'd use the wireless-to-PSP feature to walk this cute little "spy camera" into a women's college dorm.

Er, I mean... uh.... hey, look over there!