Sony to announce PSP2 in Tokyo on January 27 (vg247.com)

[MeteoricVenom]

Any news on the battery life? Thats my biggest concern plus the cost of it. If the battery life is something like 2-4 hours, its a pass from me.

[ps3freak18]

**** YES!!! They didn't make the PSP 2 some lame slidy flippy piece of breakable ****.

Looks very much like the PSP-1000 and let me tell you mine lasted over 5 years till I accidentally shorted the main board trying to fix it.
It works, just not the screen.

This thing is going to be amazing, people are more accustomed to the PSP now so the transition shouldn't be too hard.
3Ds better watch out

This thing is the ultimate package that is for sure. Completely blew my mind compared to my expectations. I hope it is not ridiculously priced because I would love to get one day one.

[SolidSnakeUS]

Eh, ARM's are pretty small. They're not like Intel\AMD Laptop and Desktop CPU's.

At present, the PSP2 is clearly a monstrous little portable. I hope it's a bit 'future proofed' though. I'm praying for 1GB of RAM but I doubt it will have it.

Ok, with a quad core, you pretty have to have a minimum of 1GB or else the rest of the system would probably bottleneck the system. I'd have to say anywhere between 1GB and 2GB of RAM. I mean, this **** can probably power a laptop better than the Motorola Atrix can, which has a dual core and 1GB of RAM in it to run sort of like a laptop/netbook.

[mickice]

This thing is the ultimate package that is for sure. Completely blew my mind compared to my expectations. I hope it is not ridiculously priced because I would love to get one day one.

It's worth the second job, wouldn't you agree? lol. I just gotta find me a first job xD

[Vulgotha]

I'm not so sure I entirely agree.. I hope you're right and 1GB is included, but I don't think a Quad ARM requires it per se.

We'll see though!

[mickice]

Anyone know the data size of those flash carts? I'd say 2GB ish for launch titles and 8 - 16 later in it's life. To me it looks like a reshaped SD card.

[YoungMullah88]

specs kinda

Sony formally revealed the heavily-rumored PSP2 in Japan today.

The device has been codenamed NGP for "next generation portable." It is set for release by the end of 2011. Pricing information was not provided.

NGP will use a new game medium, a small flash memory based card, dedicated for NGP software titles. The cards will store full game titles and add-on game content or save data. Sony notes that they'll be able to provide higher capacity cards in the future to allow developers to sore more game data.

the NGP contains a touch screen on top and a touch pad on the bottom. This will allow players to interact with games through "touch, grab, trace, push and pull" moves of the fingers.

Here are the hardware specs:

CPU: ARM Corte-A9 core (4 core)
GPU: SGX543MP4+

External Dimensions:
Approx. 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth) (tentative, excludes largest projection)

Screen: (Touch screen) 5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colors, OLED Multi touch screen (capacitive type)
Rear touch pad: Multi touch pad (capacitive type)

Cameras:
Front camera, Rear camera

Sound:
Built-in stereo speakers
Built-in microphone

Sensors:
Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), Three-axis electronic compass

Location
Built-in GPS
Wi-Fi location service support

Keys/Switches:
PS button
Power button
Directional buttons (Up/Down/Right/Left)
Action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square)
Shoulder buttons (Right/Left)
Right stick, Left stick
START button, SELECT button
Volume buttons (+/-)

Wireless communications:
Mobile network connectivity (3G)
IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n = 1x1)
(Wi-Fi) (Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode)
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (A2DP/AVRCP/HSP)

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looks thin to me...

[mickice]

This is sooo sweet! It's more feature packed then I ever could have imagined!

Quick thought: Maybe tapping the left or right side of the pad on the back will work as L2 and R2 in games.

[YoungMullah88]

specs kinda


Here are the hardware specs:

CPU: ARM Corte-A9 core (4 core)
GPU: SGX543MP4+

External Dimensions:
Approx. 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth) (tentative, excludes largest projection)

Screen: (Touch screen) 5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colors, OLED Multi touch screen (capacitive type)
Rear touch pad: Multi touch pad (capacitive type)

Cameras:
Front camera, Rear camera

Sound:
Built-in stereo speakers
Built-in microphone

Sensors:
Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), Three-axis electronic compass

Location
Built-in GPS
Wi-Fi location service support

Keys/Switches:
PS button
Power button
Directional buttons (Up/Down/Right/Left)
Action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square)
Shoulder buttons (Right/Left)
Right stick, Left stick
START button, SELECT button
Volume buttons (+/-)

Wireless communications:
Mobile network connectivity (3G)
IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n = 1x1)
(Wi-Fi) (Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode)
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (A2DP/AVRCP/HSP)

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looks thin to me...

[brebaz]

This will be Day one purchase for me.

[YoungMullah88]

This is sooo sweet! It's more feature packed then I ever could have imagined!

Quick thought: Maybe tapping the left or right side of the pad on the back will work as L2 and R2 in games.

said the same thing to my friend over skype...thats what most devs will do

[mickice]

said the same thing to my friend over skype...thats what most devs will do

Seems like a good idea, better than adding some touchy button that would probably be very awkward to use over long periods of time. This would allow your finger a rather large target area.

[Eltimas]

A 3G plus WiFI, GPS, 5 inch OLED device with dual analog? Trophy system? Visuals that are less detailed than the PS3? and a group of team developers that include: Grassopper, IREM, Level 5, Namco Bandai, Square Enix, Ubisoft, 2k Games, and Rockstar who eagerly want to support the system with their games? A device where you play and pause a PS3 game and resume it on the device?
Am I dreaming? please tell me.

[Kyaw]

How does the track pad work??

And sort of want.

Price will be the deciding factor for me.

[Dasimpse]

**** YES!!! They didn't make the PSP 2 some lame slidy flippy piece of breakable ****.

Looks very much like the PSP-1000 and let me tell you mine lasted over 5 years till I accidentally shorted the main board trying to fix it.
It works, just not the screen.

This thing is going to be amazing, people are more accustomed to the PSP now so the transition shouldn't be too hard.
3Ds better watch out

Argumented reality on PSP 2 (new gameplay mechanics) > 3Ds (Gimmick)

Man welcome to 2005. This is what every one said about the original psp against the ds. You know 3ds can do 3d augmented reality right??

Anyway I'm excited too for this. Day one for me. I have a good job lol. I'll have a 3ds too. I don't get why it has to be a vs.

[mickice]

Don't forget dual cameras and touch on the front and back too xD

[NightOnyx]

Very impressed with what I saw with the PSP2/NGP. Actually, the whole NGP makes me think they wont call it the PSP2 after all. Everyone expected it to be called the PSP2 since that is what Sony has done with the Playstation and it's predecessors, so why use a code word for it if you are just going to call it that? I personally think they will go a different route when naming it that isn't numbered, like what they did with the PSP GO. I guess we will see though.

Anyways, everything I saw made me very interested in it, and I am pretty convince I will get it. I'm hoping the price is $300 or less. The visuals are impressive and if we can get a PS3 comparable experience on a portable device, that would be absolutely amazing. I really like the idea of what Hideo Kojima said, of having a game that you can play of both systems, so when your home you can play on you PS3 and tv, and when you are not home you can play it on your PSP2. So yeah, I am very excited about the PSP2 and I can't wait to hear more about it!

[Thorzilla]

HOLY ****ING ****!

Good job Sony, you have me sold on this one too.

[Dasimpse]

Do people honestly think 300 dollars when a 3ds is 250?? This thing is 350 dollars if we are lucky. 300 pounds uk if we are lucky too

[Ixion]

It's official.

We're in the future.

[Metfanant]

wow...that thing is sex...

[Eltimas]

I'd buy it even if it's for a freaking 1,000$

[Ixion]

Merged.

[Ryunosuke]

Engadget has some nice pics of the PSP NGP up now.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/27/s...a-closer-look/

[Wasib]

Got to say I am well impressed by this - will comment more after doing further research but basically to sum it up it really seems a core gamers dream machine!