The PSP2 announced today - The PS3 in the palm of your hand.

mudah.swf · 01-27-2011, 06:59 AM

So inbetween my schedule of being intensely annoying about video games, I came across the PSP 2 in my internet travels.

If you thought the 3DS had stunning graphics for a handheld, think again. Think the fuck again. Graphicswise the PSP2 looks pmuch like a PS3, only portable. Yakuza, Uncharted, MGS4, Killzone, Wipeout HD, Little Big Planet and Resistance have been seen running on it.

And as for features? Well, we've got dual-analog sticks, cloud saving, a multi-touch screen, a rear touch-pad, 3G, WiFi, GPS, cameras, augumented-reality games, an OLED display, downloadable backwards-compatible PSP games, an accelrometer and gyroscope as seen in the PSMove and some kind of social networking thing.

Here's the Engadget link, it has videos, it's real.

PS this comes out this year, in the holiday season.

EDIT: This Neogaf thread has a bunch more screenshots and info on specs. Here's a few pics and the specs:

greed · 01-27-2011, 08:06 AM

Looks pretty but, holy fuck what is this gonna cost?

Ryong · 01-27-2011, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by greed

Looks pretty but, holy fuck what is this gonna cost?

Yeah, this so HARD. It pretty much does everything. I wonder if it'll have the 3DS battery life...I'd guess not, but hey.

walkertexasdruid · 01-27-2011, 08:07 AM

All I can say is wow, and I want one!

PyrosNine · 01-27-2011, 08:44 AM

It sounds like the PSP2 just ate and absorbed every other game system ever. Also, rear touch pad?

Kim · 01-27-2011, 10:53 AM

I've been hearing it'll have a rear touch pad for a while now and I still can't figure out why.

bluestarultor · 01-27-2011, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by NonCon

I've been hearing it'll have a rear touch pad for a while now and I still can't figure out why.

Ergonomics. Your fingers can wrap around the back while your thumbs continue to handle the face buttons and other normal stuff. With multi-touch support, that gives you potentially eight cursors (unless you're polydactyl, in which case, more power to ya) to do stuff on the screen.

What I can't figure out is why they did the same thing on the front with the actual screen.

The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk · 01-27-2011, 12:47 PM

It does look quite sexy, though I bet that's gona cost no less than a Metric Fuckton.

Marc v4.0 · 01-27-2011, 01:06 PM

Man, I don't need a handheld that does "everything".

I have a fucking smart phone.

Sony still doesn't seem to quite grasp the "less addon technology = less production cost = less retail cost = more people can buy it" thing at all

bluestarultor · 01-27-2011, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Marc v1.0

Man, I don't need a handheld that does "everything".

I have a fucking smart phone.

Sony still doesn't seem to quite grasp the "less addon technology = less production cost = less retail cost = more people can buy it" thing at all

Really, it has next to nothing to do with technology and everything to do with software. When you have a quad-core CPU, you don't need to add hardware just for music's sake. They lose basically nothing by having all that stuff in there. All it takes is a few more libraries in the OS, which probably don't take up much space.

The benefits they gain from including all that stuff in terms of sales almost certainly far outweighs the cost of including it.

01-27-2011, 06:59 AM	#1
mudah.swf Rocky Wrench Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: England Posts: 1,294	The PSP2 announced today - The PS3 in the palm of your hand. So inbetween my schedule of being intensely annoying about video games, I came across the PSP 2 in my internet travels. If you thought the 3DS had stunning graphics for a handheld, think again. Think the fuck again. Graphicswise the PSP2 looks pmuch like a PS3, only portable. Yakuza, Uncharted, MGS4, Killzone, Wipeout HD, Little Big Planet and Resistance have been seen running on it. And as for features? Well, we've got dual-analog sticks, cloud saving, a multi-touch screen, a rear touch-pad, 3G, WiFi, GPS, cameras, augumented-reality games, an OLED display, downloadable backwards-compatible PSP games, an accelrometer and gyroscope as seen in the PSMove and some kind of social networking thing. Here's the Engadget link, it has videos, it's real. PS this comes out this year, in the holiday season. EDIT: This Neogaf thread has a bunch more screenshots and info on specs. Here's a few pics and the specs: Last edited by mudah.swf; 01-27-2011 at 03:45 PM.

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Kim adorable Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 12,950	I've been hearing it'll have a rear touch pad for a while now and I still can't figure out why. __________________ this post is about how to successfully H the Kimmy

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Marc v4.0 Fight Me, Nerds Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 3,470	Man, I don't need a handheld that does "everything". I have a fucking smart phone. Sony still doesn't seem to quite grasp the "less addon technology = less production cost = less retail cost = more people can buy it" thing at all __________________