Its supposed to be unveiled around 1 am tonight EST, Im pretty excited to see what they have done with it. The best thing about the last PSP was the PSN and full games you could download (and a shit ton of good jrpgs). I hope they move further in that direction.
If it is backwards compatible with PSP games i already own on PSN i could see myself getting one in the first few months of release, otherwise i might wait a bit as its probably going to be fairly expensive. Rumors say it will be nearly as powerful as the PS3 or xbox360, and will have a pretty damn big OLED screen which should be really nice on the eyes.
It will be interesting to see what sony can come up with. The rumored OLED screen looks really awesome, but I can see it failing if the price is too high.
Its not that far fetched considering it most likely wont have to output at 720p. Also its a rumor. The 3ds is seemingly about as powerful as a gamecube/xbox so i dont see how its so far fetched to think the PSP2 would be a step up from that.
There is also talk of it having 3G service, so maybe they are going to try for a more gaming oriented small tablet market as well. That might justify the price, but i doubt its going to be more than $350. Sony has a history of eating a good amount of the hardware costs at first while nintendo prefers to make a profit from the start.
arent most of the games for the psp shorter in length due to having to consolidate space for having good graphics on an handheld device?
no, where did you hear that? There are PSP games that are bigger than 1gb, plenty of room for its graphical abilities.
i purchased both the PS3 and PSP in the second half of 2009, so i'm relatively late to the game, but goddamn they're both incredible. i didn't really believe sony's "long term" plans they announced in the mid 2000s in regards to their hardware slowly growing into their prime, but now I see they actually pulled it off for the most part. i'm pumped for this.
nice dual analog sticks (not that god damned nub on the first psp) rear and front cameras OLED screen touchpad screen front and the back has a touchpad too (wonder how that will be used) PS3 quality graphics (what they said lol) 3g support Tilt controls 5" screen (FUCK YES) out this holiday apparently
the rear touch panel is the most interesting aspect for me. big fan of that the dual sticks have me concerned that it will be inundated with console style games, but the rear (and front) touch panels say otherwise. I'm guessing this thing will launch at a minimum of $300. OLED is beautiful but not cheap. Also I suspect that they'll offer 3G subscription plans
i dont see why having console styled games would be a concern, everybody likes those kinds of games. and its not like it kills innovation on consoles so i dont see why it would on a portable.
just talking about me personally. I look to portable gaming for fundamentally different experiences that games that I might play for 2-3 hours at a time at home. but as long as those same games take advantage of unique hardware elements, then it's all good. Never meant to imply that it would kill innovation Lots of people really want to have a unified gaming experience home and away, and more power to them. This new portable will surely support any PSN games that have been downloaded to a PS3, and that's where I appluad Sony. It is distressing to me that the 3DS does not seem to have the transfer and play of Wiiware/virtual console titles anywhere on the roadmap for the future The gyroscopes and use of cameras for movement and perspective altering control will be shared by NGP and 3DS, and I'm a fan of it wherever it may be, as long as it's an option and not mandatory. I don't expect them to detail pricing this early. Ride the high of what seems like a great reveal conference
I'm so fucking down because I'll be able to play current PSP games that require nub use. Still haven't sinished either MGS, because I'm afraid of permanent finger damage.
Seems like during development they were either going to go stereoscopic 3d enabled or OLED for the display, and Nintendo made the decision easier
crazy, kojima said they just directly transfered it to the portable. not going to come out for it just a demonstration.
he speaks of his dream for people to bring their PS3 games with them outside of the house. he and I do not dream the same dream
yeah if you buy the game once and can play it on 2 different systems.... thats pretty badass sorry joe.
oh it's freaking great for tons of people and I'm glad it's happening. Doesn't mean I want it edit: seems like they're getting an exclusive CoD game. I guess it's all over then. War over
I have brain damage because I want games to be designed for a specific platform? listen, just relax. everything's going to be fine. The NGP will surely have a slew of great unique content, I would simply hate to see it turned into a console port fest. No doubt that software lineups that come early in a console/handheld's lifespan are always lackluster, will be seen on 3DS just as it was on DS, or Wii, or PS3, and most likely the NGP. I'm just talking about what I don't WANT to see happen, but slightly expect due to dual sticks. I have similar worries for the early 3DS lineup as well. The ideal scenario for developers to get some great and unique content out quickly for the NGP is to port PS3 stuff but take full advantage of stuff like the touch panels or the gyroscopes to make the games feel fresh. THIS IS WHAT I HOPE HAPPENS. Despite what you guys may believe I am in favor of awesome games, wherever they may be. KG, the war that inevitably is wage across the battlefields of the internet that is usually determined by sales numbers for whatever reason, and the same war I have no interest in taking part in
do you believe that the PSP was a console port fest joe? because it sounds to me like you are just spouting fanboy bullshit right now. of course there will be plenty of new games for the thing. seems to me like you just have to take sides when it comes to gaming, i see multiple systems as a win win for everybody because as the user i dont have to predetermine which company i support.
currently known specs for people who care. http://kotaku.com/5744485/the-psp-2-revealed uses an Arm processor, interesting.
Owning multiple devices is obviously best. and I shouldn't have focused on the word "port" as much as I did. Just that when I look to see what somones playing on their PSP it usually seems like something that person plays on their tv at home. The market needs that, I dont. I know that isn't the only stuff availble for it, and I've played games that I love on PSP. Look on the previous page, you can find me expressly mentioning things about both Sony's and Nintendo's new handheld devices that I like and dislike based upon what I know of so far. For both, I'm slightly disppointed that each manu has not shown much philosophical shift, but I like that both are taking taking steps forward (relative to their pasts) in the always on sharing and connected aspects Honestly, given the modest raise I got recently I will seriously consider owning both of these out of the gate, provided NGP is less than $300. The downloadable software market for NGp in particular seems fantastic
fair enough. i would be just as worried about the 3DS being a port fest though, it could easily get a large number of Wii ports. to me im not worried about either of them for that reason because there are always going to be lots of games for it that arent ports, there are also a lot of console games that would (and do) work better for portable gaming like Monster Hunter and Valkyria Chronicles. i really hope this thing has the same streaming media capabilities as the PS3 has, it would be sweet to stream stuff ive downloaded on my PC to a portable device with a nice big screen.
yeah when talking multimedia device there will be no contest. and between the two the libraries won't be properly robust with original shit until 12-14 months in, minimum. That OLED screen is def going to pop and give me a slight gamer chub, no doubt. Still curious to find out about the price point and the projected battery life range for the NGP. Thing seems like a work horse if it will be displaying bleeding edge visuals and always-on 3g. Wait is OLED supposed to be very efficient as far as power-usage? Even so, that's just the display and doesn't speak to the inner-workings. I really wish that 3DS had a rear touch panel now . Could come in a rather drastic hardware revision, but I don't expect one of those until Q1 2013
OLED is low power consumption, i was slightly surprised the 3DS didnt use them but I foresee the second or 3rd edition of it having them. ARM processors are extremely energy efficient but 4 cores is a lot. Im somewhat wary of what the battery life will be but at the same time i just can't fathom sony making a portable system that could only last a couple of hours. my bet is that the cutting edge tech they use in it is efficient enough for 3-4 hours at least, similar to the 3ds. the price is something else though, id bet Sony eats a lot of the cost to get it down around $300 hoping to make their money back on software sales. its their normal strategy.
yeah it'll launch at 300 also the number of times I heard the unreal engine mentioned during that conference made me
also it's not super portable from a pocket perspective I wonder if a pop-out "go model will be released at some point. I like to be able to carry my handheld comfortably in a jacket pocket, which is why the DSi XL is crap. I like that the 3DS is going to be slightly smaller than my DSi also am I correct in assuming that all games will be downloadable and then stored to flash memory? While this is better for battery life/load times, downloading massive software on 3g will be people will be to be around some nice wi-fi to get the more substantial stuff. Pricing on those larger downloads will be interesting too given the effective elimination of the used market. retailers gone be mad? ah wait, proprietary SD physical game releases. forget it
the pricing on the current psp games on psn (which is almost every one released in the last year and a half, plus a bunch of older ones) is pretty reasonable and they frequently put them on sale. yeah the used game market might rage a bit (they already did with the psp go). its just slightly larger than the psp 3000 (which is extremely portable) and a bit smaller than the original psp in overall size (its longer but a lot thinner). the size seems fine to me as the psp fits easily into my pockets.
the most interesting thing they actually talked about was the Playstation Suite thing. so basically its a framework for making games for mobile devices (phones etc) running android and the same games will be playable on the NGP as well. what is cool is that with such a large user base there could be a lot of quality smaller games coming out for the NGP and android phones, this a lot better than the mini stuff for psp they have now which has some decent games but isnt really exploding with cheap titles like they had hoped (pricing structure there is pretty retarded, but its about the same as the dsiware pricing).
yeah this comment was meant to include the Suite stuff. I mean, games developed for for the suite that are intended to be played with analog sticks/buttons won't really translate well to Android Phones, but that whole business shows that they are at least fairly cognizant of the app store
Hm, I really hope Sony releases the price of this thing before the 3DS comes out. If the PSP2's price is even somewhat comparable to the 3DS, like in the 250-300 range, I will get it instead of the 3DS no question. I've always been more of a Sony fan than a Nintendo fan, and I love my PSP except for the horrendous battery life. Just looking at that thing makes me pumped to hear more about it.
I'm hoping that the PS3 similarities aren't just PR bullshit, as developers are finally able to push the PS3 they way it was meant to and that kind of learning curve for the PSP2 would suck, the PSP was a notorious bitch to develope for (tried it, would have doubled dev time, but since our contract is up for grabs I'd be tempted to come back to Sony about a year after this lands).
This. Also, it'll be more than $300. But possibly not quite as much as GameStop is currently quoting for it.
