While Sony did not unveil any new hardware at the company’s E3 press conference, new photos are beginning to show up around the Net that lead us to believe they’re hard at work on an updated version of the PSP.

Kotaku reports that forums members from PSPChina BBS have captured the rumored PSP-3000, identified by its PlayStation logo button that would replace the “home” button currently on the original and slim PSP models. The “new” PSP also features an onboard microphone located to the right of the volume controls.

If the rumors are true, adding onboard microphone and a new shiny home button is a joke for 2000 user like me.  Upgrading 1000 to 2000 is great because they made it smaller and the doubled the RAM resulting to a fast loading but upgrading from 2000 to 3000 because it has a built-in microphone and new home button is really a waste of money. I hope they add a better screen, higher CPU, doubled RAM, add another analog or better battery life.