I stopped at Best Buy on my way home from work today and picked up the Ice Silver Slim PSP Daxter pak for $199.99. The packaging is surprisingly lightweight and not as thick as I thought it'd be. The thing is an absolute pain in the ass to open. When you open the box everythng is packaged inside this extremely thick plastic that you can not open unless you have a knife. The PSP itself is visible on the top of the packaging, and then the bottom part contains everything else inside a cardboard box about the size of the PSP. The memory stick is situated inbetween the PSP and the cardboard box, inside the plastic. They certainly packaged this thing well.

The pack itself comes with, the Ice Silver PSP, Daxter game, Family Guy Freakin Sweet Collection, AC Adaptor/Power cord, and a 1GB Memory stick, it does not come with a USB cable. That does suck for anyone that doesn't already have a cable but luckily I have a Sony Cybershot digital camera that uses the exact same cable so I think that'll work although I haven't tried it yet.

I haven't spent a whole lot of time with the PSP yet, but I really like it so far. As of 20 minutes ago, I had never played a PSP game, at all. I've held the original once or twice but never long enough to get any impressions of it. Anyway, the Slim PSP is freaking lightweight. It weighs practically nothing. The 360 controller weighs more, and going back to the clunky old DS (not DS Lite) is like holding a brick. You literally feel like you're holding a feather, it weighs so little. (The Slim PSP weighs about 7.2 ounces and the DS weighs about 10.4 ounces) The silver color seems to hold up very well to fingerprints, I can't see any on it at all. The screen itself? Wow. Very very clear and very very sharp. Going back to the DS feels like the screen is covered in mud or something, it's definitely not as sharp. The buttons all feel great, I especially like the D-Pad. Probably one of the best D-pads I've ever used. I haven't tried the analog nub much but it seemed a little weird, will have to get used to that. The UMDs go into a slot that you pull open on the back. I didn't know for sure how to insert a UMD properly but I noticed that the cover would not close if you had it in wrong, kind of a neat thing for noobs like me. The memory stick goes into the left side of the system. You pull out a little flexible, rubbery cover and insert the slot into the system.

Overall the system is really cool so far and I'm glad I picked one up. The only issue I've had so far, is the sound is not that loud, even when you turn the volume up to the max. I played the Family Guy UMD and I could hardly hear anything. I tried out a couple games and some of them were plenty loud and others were kinda quiet. I hear this is the case with the "fat" PSP as well so it looks like they didn't improve in that area, aside from moving the speakers towards the top of the system. I guess it's better to use headphones for the best experience. The pack does not come with cables so you can play PSP games on your TV and I have no idea if Best Buy had any, as I didn't ask. I don't even have an HDTV so I don't know if the TV Out function works with Standard Def TVs.

You will notice in the picture that I received a demo of Jeanne D'arc. That did NOT come with the system, so don't assume it does. I got home and my girlfriend Liz, got a bunch of free stuff from the Sony and Microsoft representatives that were in Toys R Us today. She brought home a really cool Heavenly Sword letter opener, that PSP demo (game is awesome btw), a Halo 3 bracelet, some promo information guides for Halo 3 and Heavenly Sword and I also got a Warhawk pin. Here's a pic of the bracelet and letter opener:

Excuse me while I go play some PSP games!!

UPDATE1: Ok the USB cable that came with my digital camera works for the PSP. I put some Mp3s on it just to try it out and everything worked ok. I also set up my wireless connection although that was a little tricky, but it works in the end. I also read the instructions and it looks like the TV Out function works with standard def televisions.

UPDATE2: I took some more pictures of the slim PSP to compare it to the other handheld systems I have, the DS and DS Lite. Sorry I don't have the original PSP to compare it to but I think this will give you a better idea on how slim it is.