The PSP2 is finally here. Sony revealed its brand new PlayStation Portable at an event in Tokyo yesterday, giving techgeeks and gamers - (thats all of us, isnt it?) our first official look at the PlayStation maker's next bold foray into handheld gaming. Here are the first details....
Sony confirmed many of the features of the PSP2 that we've already heard in the form of leaks, rumor and speculation. Sony boasts that the new PlayStation Portable is as powerful as a PlayStation 3. For now, Sony is officially calling the new PlayStation Portable by its codename, Next Generation Portable or NGP. It will be out this coming Summer I guess.
The Specs include a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, 5-inch touchscreen OLED display with 960 x 544 resolution, dual analog sticks (not nubs as on the current generation), 3G, WiFi, GPS, a rear-mounted touchpad, the same accelerometer / gyroscope motion sensing as in the PlayStation Move, an electronic compass, and cameras on both the front and back!!!
Games will come on "new media," not UMD anymore, but we're unclear on what sort of flash memory is being used. Sony's rather proud of the fact it's offering the world's first dual analog stick combo on a portable device, though we're more geeked about the quadrupling of pixel count from the original PSP.
The New Game Media.
The new console's UI will be called LiveArea, which has a bunch of vertically navigable home screens and built-in social networking through PlayStation Network. You can jump between games and the LiveArea without losing your progress and comment on your buddies' great feats of mobile gaming.
