I am shocked at how much benefit of the doubt Kotaku is putting in this. It's *clearly* a fake. No question.
~The D-pad and face buttons are a direct lift from a leaked photo of the PlayStation Phone, right down to the glare patterns on the metallic sections!
~Oh, and the second nub was merely a copy/paste from the first (see included image). It's nearly pixel perfect.
~Even if it weren't a direct lift (which it is), let's remember that SonyEricsson and Sony's PlayStation devision are basically different companies, with different hardware designers. There is no reason that the buttons on both devices would come from the exact same mold.
~The fact that it features a "Memory Stick" and not a "Memory Stick Duo" is *proof positive* that this is BS. The original Memory Stick form factor is long dead. [en.wikipedia.org]
(How does this not raise red flags with *anybody* who looks at it?? Even the current PSP uses the "Duo" form factor. I know this and I've never even played a PSP.)
~Sony would more likely use Micro-SD than SD if they used Sd at all, although the 3DS does use a full size SD card, but Sony simply wouldn't.
~All that aside, why is there is no logo or branding on the "top screen" bezel? This would never happen on a Sony device, especially if we're expected to play touch-screen games on it while it's closed.
~A stylus? If the PSP2 does have a touch screen at all, it would likely be a capacitive screen, not a resistive one. The form factor does not lend itself to stylus use (in either opened or closed mode) and if Sony is going to promote PlayStation Phone to PSP2 compatibility,
Good thing it's fake, too, because it's pretty ugly.
You guys should actually be a little embarrassed for even considering that this might be real. It took all of 30 seconds to figure it out.