
In case you didn’t know, Sony has finally released some awesome screenshots and videos of what the new Playstation Portable is going to look like plus the specs, which we’ll have below. In getting you guys more information on what to expect from this device, we first want to Analise the device as well as give you our predictions on what we can expect from the new PSP2 entitled the “NGP” to go. We are going to try to keep things positive and we have many good things to say about the PSP2, but we also have to give our critique on it and I know it is too early for us to do this, but hey that is just our opinion.
The original PSP came out back in 2004 in Japan and then in 2005 it was introduced to North America plus other places like in Europe, Asia etc, but were not going to give you PSP history lesson. What we do have to say is that it sold approximately 60 million units since then, which is a great for Sony, but the big question here is: Will the PSP2 do as well as the PSP? – The answer to that is unknown, but to throw our two cents we feel that it might not do as well as Sony is probably hoping.
The Good!
The PSP 2 is going to be amazing just for the fact that it’s a new device and the technology will be much more updated than the original PSP. The technology seems promising as you will get to run a game like Uncharted on it and if that doesn’t sell it to you, I don’t know what will. The storage capacity is unknown, but well get that to you eventually as it comes. So far what we know about it is that it will have a touchscreen feature similar to smart phones, which means that developers will be making some awesome games in the future now that there going to have a beast like the PSP2. Where the device gets a chance in the fight with smartphones is that developers that make awesome games like Angry Birds will now get to bring these touch based games on the PSP, which will make it great for casual gamers without loosing that hardcore gamer status.
The Bad!
The original PSP was great for it’s time, but it certainly has been replaced with a much larger fanbase of Smartphone users on the Android Market as well as the Apple iOS that is on the iPhone, iPad, iPods. The Android install base is huge and we are becoming smartphone dependants these days, which is great, but it is also the thing that will kill the Nintendo DS and the PSP or devices of that nature. As consumers we want it all and with the economy as crappy as it is, gamers aren’t going to spend $400 dollars on a PSP2 when they can get an HTC Evo 4G for $150 that has a lot of power and it still works as a phone and GPS.
Overall we will have to wait and see how things shape up for the future we like the idea and as gamers we’ll support it, but Sony has a huge challenge coming when it comes to the PSP2.
Below are the detais on the PSP 2 as well as some screenshots.
| CPU |
ARM® Cortex™-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 = 1×1) (Wi-Fi) (Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode)
Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR (A2DP/AVRCP/HSP) |