Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has revealed that the platform holder will lift the cloth on the final name for its Next Generation Portable (NGP) later this year.
Speaking to the folks at Edge, Yoshida revealed that the NGP moniker has been in use since development on the PSP successor kicked off in 2008.
Quizzed as to why they firm didn’t simply announce the device as PSP2, he replied, "Well, NGP is the codename we’ve used since 2008. We will announce the final name of the console sometime later this year."
NGP is currently pencilled in for release in Japan in late 2011. Plans for a western launch are still under wraps, however.