Sony revealed its long-rumoured PSP2 in Tokyo this morning. The device comes with a new name, no UMD and the ability to play ported PS3 titles.
The new name is Next Generation Portable or NGP - although this may simply be a codename used before the device goes on sale at 'the Holidays' this year.
The NGP comes with five-inch, touch-compatible OLED screen. The touch screen operates both front and back with Sony illustrating this as "a player pushing objects “into” the screen by tapping on the front, and pushing them “out” of the screen by using the rear panel", according to Wired.
NGP also has two analog joysticks and runs on a 4-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU. It has 3G and Wifi. It also has front and rear cameras. Also included are an accelerometer and gyroscope for motion control.
Yes, UMD is dead. The NGP uses cartridges similar to those used by the Nintendo DS.
According to Sony's Shuhei Yoshida the system's SGX543MP4+ GPU also enables PlayStation 3-quality graphics.
In terms of gaming, a first-look launch first-party line-up includes Killzone, WipeOut, Resistance, LittleBigPlanet, Uncharted, Little Deviants, Hot Shots Golf Next, Gravity Daze, Reality Fighters and Billiards.
In terms of third-party offerings we have, Yakuza: Of the End from SEGA, Lost Planet 2 from Capcom, and Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4. Activision made mention of Call of Duty, and Epic Games demoed Unreal Engine.
The presentation did not mention price.
The new name is Next Generation Portable or NGP - although this may simply be a codename used before the device goes on sale at 'the Holidays' this year.
The NGP comes with five-inch, touch-compatible OLED screen. The touch screen operates both front and back with Sony illustrating this as "a player pushing objects “into” the screen by tapping on the front, and pushing them “out” of the screen by using the rear panel", according to Wired.
NGP also has two analog joysticks and runs on a 4-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU. It has 3G and Wifi. It also has front and rear cameras. Also included are an accelerometer and gyroscope for motion control.
Yes, UMD is dead. The NGP uses cartridges similar to those used by the Nintendo DS.
According to Sony's Shuhei Yoshida the system's SGX543MP4+ GPU also enables PlayStation 3-quality graphics.
In terms of gaming, a first-look launch first-party line-up includes Killzone, WipeOut, Resistance, LittleBigPlanet, Uncharted, Little Deviants, Hot Shots Golf Next, Gravity Daze, Reality Fighters and Billiards.
In terms of third-party offerings we have, Yakuza: Of the End from SEGA, Lost Planet 2 from Capcom, and Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4. Activision made mention of Call of Duty, and Epic Games demoed Unreal Engine.
The presentation did not mention price.
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config 27 Jan 2011 09:24
1/8
WTF? I'm *so* disappointed it isn't Move compatible. Damn you Sony
ohms 27 Jan 2011 09:37
2/8
If a 3DS is 230quids, this will be at least 300.
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kalps_171 27 Jan 2011 09:52
3/8
@ohms
£300?? With the tech included, yes it's a little cheaper than it was several years ago, but that price tag would be a little low.
However, with that said, Sony are use to under-pricing a product in relation to its actual individual component cost, as seen with the PS2 and 3, where they were making a loss of such and such amount until so many hardware units were sold and the manufacturing process got cheaper.
... And I'll admit this, I weren't expecting the "PSP2" to look like that. I may have to purchase... But then will it gather dust like my PSP is right now?! It may do. I tend to play on my iPhone for short periods when I'm not near my computer or 360...
£300?? With the tech included, yes it's a little cheaper than it was several years ago, but that price tag would be a little low.
However, with that said, Sony are use to under-pricing a product in relation to its actual individual component cost, as seen with the PS2 and 3, where they were making a loss of such and such amount until so many hardware units were sold and the manufacturing process got cheaper.
... And I'll admit this, I weren't expecting the "PSP2" to look like that. I may have to purchase... But then will it gather dust like my PSP is right now?! It may do. I tend to play on my iPhone for short periods when I'm not near my computer or 360...
irritant 27 Jan 2011 10:22
4/8
"the ability to play PS3 ports" is a big of a misleading marketing statement. The DS could play PS3 ports, but as with all ports there's some amount of re-writing and "asset optimisation" to deal with the different hardware.
miacid 27 Jan 2011 11:07
5/8
Granted there is work to do to make games playable on the PS3 and PSP2, however I'm sure Sony will introduce some middleware to help make this process easier.
What I'd really like to see is the option to say buy the PS3 game and PSP2 game at the same time but a reduced cost, as is possible when buying a Blu Ray, you also get the option to spend a bit extra and get the DVD as well or even the digital copy as well. This needs to happen for the PS3 and PSP2, assuming the same game will be released on both systems.
All they'd need to do then, would be enable your save games to be linked to you PSN account, so that you can carry on playing the same game on either console, if this happened I'd get one in a heart beat, sold!
What I'd really like to see is the option to say buy the PS3 game and PSP2 game at the same time but a reduced cost, as is possible when buying a Blu Ray, you also get the option to spend a bit extra and get the DVD as well or even the digital copy as well. This needs to happen for the PS3 and PSP2, assuming the same game will be released on both systems.
All they'd need to do then, would be enable your save games to be linked to you PSN account, so that you can carry on playing the same game on either console, if this happened I'd get one in a heart beat, sold!
anonymous 29 Jan 2011 10:50
6/8
so can you somehow put your old umd games into this?
anonymous 29 Jan 2011 10:55
7/8
I am so gonna get this when the price goes down.
but i suggest that you wait till reviews comeout to ckeck if theres
anythink wrong with it because look at the ps3 slim and the psp go
when they first came out after 6 to 7 months people started reporting
problems.
but i suggest that you wait till reviews comeout to ckeck if theres
anythink wrong with it because look at the ps3 slim and the psp go
when they first came out after 6 to 7 months people started reporting
problems.
simon 22 Feb 2011 16:46
8/8
@miacid These are my thoughts entirely. It would be real technological progress if this were to be the case