Kupowered: PSP2 - What'd I get right?

Thursday, January 27, 2011

PSP2 - What'd I get right?

So the PSP2 is a thing that is happening. Eventually. Tonight's meeting was little more than to show it off and give everyone a little idea of what -could- be on it; much like Nintendo's E3 3DS reveal (except there were one or two actual 3DS games shown on it, Kid Icarus is all I can think of). What you see above is the PSP2, codenamed NGP (for Next Generation Portable) with an actual name forth-coming. Also, price forth-coming.

So, what all did everyone get right?

- Less broad but more high than the original PSP (PSP dimensions: 17X7.4X2.3 cm) - More or less, yep
- 5" OLED multi-touch screen (12.7 cm) - Yep
- Multi-touch trackpad - Yes?
- Resolution: 960 x 544 - Yes, surprisingly (At least, if this is 4x of the PSP)
- Quad core ARM Cortex A-9 - No Mention Update: Looks like it.
- PowerVR SGX 543 MP4+ - No Mention
- 512MB LPDDR2 RAM (1GB devkits) - No Mention
- 16GB flash + SD slot - There's a stick slot, no data storage mention
- Wifi, 3G, bluetooth - Yep
- Acelerometers, GPS, gyroscope, front and back camera - Yes
- November 2011 - "Holiday this year"

What else? Here's the full-list of features shamelessly stolen from here.

5 inch OLED – 4x the resolution of the current PSP
3G plus WiFI
GPOS
Sixaxis Motion Sensing
Electronic Compass
Front and Rear Camera
Microphone
Dual Analog Sticks (Not Nubs)
Flash Memory – memory sticks instead of UMD – like DS carts
PS3 quality graphics
Touch Front Screen
Touch Pad on Back
Augmented Reality Games

Coming this Holiday Season
will include a new service called LiveArea which will keep you upto date with news on all your games.
LiveArea will let you see what others are playing in your area - this will be extremely popular in Japan and huge Metropolis cities like Toronto, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc...
Trophy Support
Will be able to connect to Mobile Networks
Augmentation will allow you more control on your games. As you move, you affect the game you’re playing: shown in action during Uncharted and Hot Shots Golf Previews
PlayStation Suite (revealed earlier) will work with NGP
PSP games currently available for download WILL work with new unit.

So I hadn't even thought of the mics or the cameras, but we all should've seen that coming. I called the dual analogue sticks (though I will admit, I expected nubs, rather than sticks) which was not hard at all to call. Also Physical Media. Also PSP BC (with DD titles). One can assume PSOne/Minis BC still, as this is compatible with the Playstation Suite, which in itself, will be compatible with PSOne games. I made easy calls, and hey, I got them. Go me!

Also, they showed off Yakuza: Of the End on the thing. All of my money.

Update: Here is a chart. It is full of Chart-y goodness.

And here are the games they showed off on it, though they were just demos and proof-of-concepts and the like.

* Monster Hunter 3rd

* Hot Shots Golf
* Uncharted
* Lost Planet 2
* Wipeout
* Yakuza
* Dynasty Warriors
* Metal Gear Solid 4
* Call of Duty
* Dungeon Defenders - an upcoming PS3 game by Epic

1 comment:

Captain HaploJanuary 27, 2011 at 3:15 AM
"LiveArea will let you see what others are playing in your area - this will be extremely popular in Japan and huge Metropolis cities like Toronto, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc..."

I don't even need to say anything. I'm just gonna paste this here and look at you whilst wiggling my eyebrows, Mogs. You -know- what I mean.
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The current goal is a post every other day to settle myself in; eventually, I will seek to post every day, if just to raise an inquiry that I've found I've tripped over most of that day, or to retell an amusing, or perhaps less so, tale from the day. I find that I can be long-winded at times, so perhaps this will be less of a concern than I imagine!

While it would make sense to change this to grow as "Kupowered" does, I hope to keep this just as it is and, sometime down the road, re-read it with a slight chuckle and mumble to myself, "I did it." So take this as a mission statement, if you will, and we will see how it works out!

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