I recently had a chance to talk with John Koller, the senior marketing manager for the Playstation Portable for a story I was working on for the Rocky Mountain News. The story ran online today. It mostly looks at the Playstation Portable's identity crisis: Is it a portable gamer or is it a multimedia player. There are plenty of other juicy tidbits packed into the story as well.

Hit the jump for a few of them:

The PSP has a 120-game library and another 100 coming by the end of the year.
The PSP will definitely get an iTunes-like service that will support music and video downloads, but right now Sony is still working on the DRM.
The GPS add-on will be used for both mapping and gameplay.
The camera add-on will include a built-in microphone and be able to take still pictures and video.
Future iterations of the PSP are likely, but Sony is betting on the device having a 10-year lifespan.
Sony believes Microsoft's Zune will eventually have game play support and that worries the company.

I'm left with the impression that Sony doesn't play nicely with Sony when it comes to.. well, just about everything, but most certainly when it comes to digital video and music. Hit the full story for all of the context and lovely quotes.

Sony Fights to Define the PSP [Rocky Mountain News]