According to Eurogamer, sources close to Sony say that sometime in the future, a new
PlayStation Portable will be released. While there's been no official word, the game site is reporting that there could be an update to the current PSP (which
might be called the
PSP 4000), and in the not-too-distant future (2010 or 2011), Sony will introduce a completely new model, confusingly dubbed the "
PSP2." David Reeves, SCEE president has recently been quoted as making vague, suspicious statements such as "there are currently no plans for a PSP2," and "I go to Tokyo quite a lot and no one has referred to it - I think they have their hands full at the moment." Nice try Reeves, but If you keep up these kinds of thinly veiled allusions to a new system, we suspect it's only a matter of years till this cat's out of the bag.
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Note: The above post is sarcasm. It also saddens us that we had to add this note.
posted December 16th 2008 11:31AM
First- This is a nice mockup of what the product will be. I'd buy anything that looked like that.
Anything? How about a bomb that was shaped like a psp and detonates when you press any of the buttons!
And you are not first, you are sixth.... FAIL!
Wow, the pic looks sweeet
yet another rootkit opportunity
would not touch sony after how they treated clie customers
if only it was real :(
I'd buy it. Especially if it had a touch screen and was hackable.
NICE
Professional
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Just FYI, that's a mockup that was released... Sometime last year I think. Nearly 12 months ago at least. It's not real.
Fan-made mockup from a couple years ago. Still looks great.
- DUAL analog sticks
- A2DP
- SSD drive rather than UMD.
- games downloadable to SSD or purchaseable on 4GB memory chips
- touchscreen with keyboard
-Opera or Google web browser
- SKYPE
only gripe i have with your specs is the google or opera.
how about firefox? with add on support.
PLUS
-webcam
-(obviously)wireless (n perhaps)
P.S
that mockup looks sexy as fuck, would DEFINITELY buy.
can't wait till someone gets the balls to make a laptop with a edge to edge screen like that.
That mock up was actually an early Sony one for the original PSP. that picture was from quite a while before the original PSP was released.
damn thats sexy, i hope its touch screen
OLED touch screen!
While I have an iPod touch and think it's nice, I'm all about tactile buttons, especially for games. Touch screen games (a la iPod touch/iPhone) are going to bring back bad memories of Nintendo buttons not working.
More like OLD screen. This mockup was rendered when word started spreading about a PSP sequel.
A touchscreen would be best because theoreticaly, with advances in technology, you would have a keyboard that pops up and dissapears - with a web browsing experience not unlike what we have on iPhones.
Not for games, but for Wifi internet browsing.
Looks very very nice.
But it sucks badly.
You play 20 minutes with this kind of design and your hands will hurt you so much you will cry.
ergonomics = 0
but it sill looks nice..
"OLED touch screen!"
I think that would be ridiculously expensive and annoying.. touch screens are not for gaming, and everyone, especially Apple, need to realize that.
Has anyone tried playing Cube on the iPhone/iPod Touch yet? While the game's graphics look impressive (yet slow to process), the way the developers laid out the controls is pretty cumbersome. I don't think I could ever enjoy Cube by awkwardly holding my iPhone in such weird positions without radically changing the controls to make gameplay easier. Just an example of why physical controls are still the way to go.
"touch screens are not for gaming"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS
Go Tigrex, go!
That mock-up with a few enhancements would look cool. That said the Pandora is looking good. Sony have alot to do if they do bring a psp2.
[sarcasm]If this doesn't take UMDs, I'll turn to the next gaming device of the century- the iPhone [/sarcasm]
I swear if they dont get rid of that cursed UMD disk im going to startt a riot. and NO that doesnt mean they can stuff it with some other proprietary drive.
For the record, this is an old fan render, and is completely unrelated to the story. Don't get excited.
I hope thats not the new design...I like the PSP design.
That pic is nothing what the new psp will look like. That is actually a different product that someone has cleverly photo-shopped to have PSP features saw it on NewLaunches about a month ago and here...
The new PSP2 will have dual analogue because if Sony doesn't they will lose the handheld market that they have now.
Hopefully it'll allow us to play PS2 games on the go...one can dream...
Have their hands full of what?
It took them clowns nearly three years to double the ram in the psp. Bullocks!
Besides, the ipod touch is fast becoming a powerful gaming device. It has a 500+ mhz arm chip and a very good graphics engine.
It is something to watch out for. I just hope Apple goes full throttle and give it the needed controls for more advanced gaming control.
That's my 2 cents.
the ipod touch has NOTHING on the PSP in terms of gaming (i say this having both devices). I just laugh when people say that the ipod touch is a "gaming" device. Yea it has games, but it seems like games on the iPod Touch are more gimmicky, 40+ Year old Soccer Mom type games.
All the horsepower in the world won't help if there are not proper dedicated controls. The chances of apple adding dedicated gaming controls to the iphone/ipod are right up there with the chances of apple releasing a 12 button mouse. It goes against their core UI principles.
A graphics ENGINE? No... a graphics engine is software. Like the Source engine or the Cry engine: Controls physics and graphics, and is at the heart of the game.
What the iPod touch has is a graphics processor, rendering the output from a graphics engine.
the chances of it turniong out like that are slim, but if it does i might be inclined to get one:)
lol that pic up there is over 2 years old ATLEAST. Still, the PSP2 BETTER look like that...if Sony knows what's right (and they make good decisions so I trust them)
I can't tell if you're serious or not.
nintendo probably will introduce their new handheld before psp2, plus the chance that M$ will release its own handheld, all in the not so near future.
I bet it different. M$ couldn't even get WM working properly, a handheld down the pipe, please? How can you expect a kid who can't dress himself properly to start a t-shirt company?
Like Sony said, no PSP2, but that could mean they call it the NEW PSP
the mock-up is oh so sexy! Here's my best guess
It'll still take UMDs - and it'll feature a DUAL laser assembly - featuring the traditional red laser to read the UMDs of the psp1, and (hold your breath) - a blue laser to read the blu-ray UMDs!!! It's technically possible to gain the increase in storage by making the blu-ray disk fit into a small umd correct?
take a hit on the hardware and reap the benefits of software / movie sales!
I really hope for your sake that you forgot to add "/s" tag, since blu-ray players don't need two lasers to read older disc. The "blue" ray is backwards compatible...also, I think UMD sucks ass and hopefully they move to an online distribution model completely, like they have with UMD Classics on PSN.
The current screen size is too large to make a phone that people might want to carry on a day to day basis.
If it has a touch screen around the size of an iPhone, or the N97 with a slide out panel with game controls, it would be awesome!
Let Sony do something right for a change and use Memory Stick Pro Duo instead of UMD.
You wouldn't believe how much battery life is gained. I went from 4 hours to 8.5 using the custom firmware.
SD cards > every other memory card. I doubt Sony would use it though...
Screw Sony. Playstation 2 was there last and best system. Its over. Screw bluray for that matter. Download. No more buying of 30 dollar movie so I can put it on my shelf and let it collect dust. Xbox.... Everything is better on XBOX, Games, Online, Commuity.... Die Sony.
Could the title be any more vague? I guess "Sony to release new product" would work...
There have already been rumors that both nvidia and imagination technologies were signed on by Sony for a new project, so a psp 2 should be no surprise really.
They need to badly, the whole thing was flawed from the start, i have one, havent used it in 6 months, thankgod for Dark Alex , he saved it for me really i actually use it abit now. The design is poor, uncomfortable for an extended period of time, UMD was just a stupid decsion from the start, only a silly asian company would dream up a new format to make lives more difficult they all seem to. It definatly has potential they just need to get rid of UMD, redesign it and give it some sort of online distribution that is easy to use a la iTunes.
Sorry but I can't resist.....
"sources close to Sony say that sometime in the future, a new PlayStationPortable will be released."
In other news, Ford will be at some time in the future making a new car.
Oh wait. Maybe not.
But seriously a company that makes video games consoles might make a new version sometime in the future is news? /shrug
BUZZ! Buy me a soda
(OK.. Now I'm acting like my kids)
Parallel Though FTW (x4)!
This blows my mind. Apparently no one got that this entire post is poking fun at a vague rumor. To be clear -- this post is completely sarcastic.