[url=http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/27/the-sony-psp2/]Source[/url]
[QUOTE=Engadget]Betcha didn't think this day would come, but it finally has. Sony has just come clean with its next-generation PlayStation Portable. It's actually codenamed NGP and will revolve around five key concepts: Revolutionary User Interface, Social Connectivity, Location-based Entertainment, Converging Real and Virtual (augmented) Reality. It will be compatible with the PlayStation Suite and is backwards-compatible with downloadable PSP games and content from Sony's PlayStation Store.
Specs include a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, 5-inch touchscreen OLED display with 960 x 544 resolution, dual analog sticks (not nubs as on the current generation), 3G, WiFi, GPS, a rear-mounted touchpad, the same accelerometer / gyroscope motion sensing as in the PlayStation Move, an electronic compass, and cameras on both the front and back. Available this holiday season. Wait... what?!
Sony's next PSP, codenamed NGP
Games will come on "new media," not UMD anymore, but we're unclear on what sort of flash memory is being used. Sony's rather proud of the fact it's offering the world's first dual analog stick combo on a portable device, though we're more geeked about the quadrupling of pixel count from the original PSP.
Sony's live event has been graced by demos of some pretty popular games, including Killzone, Resistance, Little Big Planet, and Uncharted -- with the latter serving as a demo platform to show off how the NGP's rear touchpad can be used to more intuitively climb up some vines. That touch panel on the back is the same size and positioned directly under the front OLED touchscreen, which allows for some pretty sophisticated controls when using the two simultaneously.
The new console's UI will be called LiveArea, which has a bunch of vertically navigable home screens and built-in social networking through PlayStation Network. You can jump between games and the LiveArea without losing your progress and comment on your buddies' great feats of mobile gaming.
Sony's next PSP, codenamed NGP games and UI
In closing its presentation, Sony trotted out Hideo Kojima to show off a cutscene from MGS 4 rendered in real time on the NGP. It was pulled directly from the PS3 version of the game and ran at 20fps, which looked very smooth indeed to our liveblogging eyes. Videos and Sony's full PR are now available below.[/QUOTE]
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[url=http://www.engadget.com/photos/psp2-press-shots/#3823543]NGP press shots gallery[/url]
Looks sexy.
hmm... looks promising
PS3 graphics? Holy shit, video please!
Video: [url]http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/27/the-sony-psp2/[/url]
Meh, can't say I'm particularly interested.
Do want!
Then they finally realise that there [b]was[/b] room for a second analogue stick after all.
I found the lack of a 2nd analogue stick very irritating for most of the games on it.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;27691539]Then they finally realise that there [b]was[/b] room for a second analogue stick after all.
I found the lack of a 2nd analogue stick very irritating for most of the games on it.[/QUOTE]
Yeah it seemed dumb that they didn't include two analog sticks from the start. Glad they finally included that.
Yay a portable device will now have a CPU with more cores than my computer
[quote]we're more geeked about the quadrupling of pixel count from the original PSP.[/quote]
Wow, what an achievement considering it's been more than half a decade since the original!
Looks good but it will cost so much.
[QUOTE=Rashy;27691574]Looks good but it will cost so much.[/QUOTE]
And will cost $200 more in Australia than anywhere else.
The graphics part is the only thing that interests me. I still have my money down for the 3DS.
A quad core CPU in a handheld device,
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But what kind of physics card will it have!?
[QUOTE=Contag;27691849]But what kind of physics card will it have!?[/QUOTE]
Physics card. :what:
That's probably what those extra 3 cores are for.
I think it can play Crysis.
Holy fuck, Uncharted and MGS4 on the PSP2? Two Joysticks? QUAD CORE?
Sony, I am sold.
I bet the battery will suck.
Switch the left analog stick with the D-Pad :smug:
PSP was the last 'console' I bought. There were barely any games for it and the ones it did have were buggy as hell and hard to control with that little analogue stick which for a very long time I thought was a speaker until it moved.
This still looks interesting in terms of technology even though I probably won't be buying it (Especially considering it will probably have some outrageous price in the US and then four times that in the UK, not lowering until two years have passed - Like the PS3)
[url=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1053815-Take-a-look-at-the-new-PSP]You're late bucko.[/url]
With all that power, they could have complemented the 5" OLED with a nicer res, not just a stop below what the iPhone 4 does. Nice handheld device to have, but I don't see it as a good investment if you buy a high end smartphone.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
3DS or this?! I mean holy shit Uncharted and Metal Gear Solid: 4?! God damn.
There is no way he is holding that with three fingers.
God damn.
Impressive, wouldn't have expected this much power in a handheld device to premiere this year.
Looks like a bitch to hold, though.
Is it a phone aswell?
Seeing as it has 3G and a Cortex A9 processor perhaps someone could get Android run on it as well.
i'm sat here with a dual core and i feel poor and irish
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[QUOTE=B-hazard;27693791]Seeing as it has 3G and a Cortex A9 processor perhaps someone could get Android run on it as well.[/QUOTE]
ps phone
[QUOTE=geogzm;27693854]i'm sat here with a dual core and i feel poor and irish
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ps phone[/QUOTE]
The PS phone is just some silly phone made by Sony Ericsson, Android on this would be beastly.
No Game Portable
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