No USB I am not interested.
I think it is plain lack of imagination that is so stifling. Kids today have no clue. Give me a $200 set of Legos or a robot to play with, don't need freaking Sony telling me what to do.
If you give your kid Lego Technics, be sure to give him some nuts/bolts some plywood and a drill eventually, those damn blocks aren't exactly the cheapest or easiest to bend to your will without a little more creativity
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Besides, by 14 the kid should have a car/go-kart/motorcycle to wrench on, and get him started on learning about the real world. Figure $150-200 to buy the kid this game system, then $20-60 a game, he should spend the money one something actually useful.
If he is into computers, there is much better bang for the buck than a PSP, just look at the freaking iPod Touch for $200 on ebay.
I am biased looking around at all the 8-28 year old useless people whose entire world is these games, and they don't even know how to properly utilize them. Sad really.
Edit: Sony has discovered a way to sell people in the 20th century $50 razor blades, the only irony is that the actual razor blade is made of plastic and it is entirely redundant as there is re-usable storage on the same system that the game can play off of!
No logical reason is stopping all the games from being available online. Maybe if the games were actually worth it, but the only ones that are even interesting are remakes of games that have been released and re-released before, but with new content. Maybe we should bring the new content to the systems with new hardware? Just maybe.
