Oh dear oh dear, when a few plucky members on NeoGaf found that the June issue of Qore could already be accessed, they didn’t realize that the issue would feature what was supposed to be one of Sony’s announcements at their press-conference next week. That announcement being of course the PSP GO!.

By now the Qore Issue is probably down but luckily the internet keeps a record of everything and there’s already a Youtube Video of the Qore Interview. Among the interesting facts given in the interview is that there’s going to be new Jak and Daxter and Metal Gear entries for the system, along with the long awaited Gran Turismo Mobile and some footage of the Portable version of Little Big Planet.

The PSP Go! is intended to work much like the GBA SP did with the GBA so many years back. Although the GBA SP all but replaced the GBA in the mindset of both the consumers and developers, there weren’t any SP only games that you couldn’t also play on your GBA. That’s probably one of the reasons Nintendo didn’t add extra Y and X buttons the SP, one of the major complaints surrounding the GBA line and it’s SNES ports.

That’s also why the PSP Go! doesn’t have a second analog nub. Sony wants their two handhelds to sell well together and won’t give the developers an incentive to make their games Go! only.

The most interesting thing about the PSP Go! announcement though, is that it’s almost confirmed that PS3 Slim rumor by showing off the packaging of the Go! in the leaked pictures. The style of the packaging for the PSP Go! is parallel to the leaked packaging pics of the PS3 Slim. The Go! box has a Blue style while the previously leaked Slim box had a Red style.

Leaks are a way of life, and the E3 dam is just getting started to break. – The Ben