Sony Announces Next Generation Playstation Portable…. Is This The Future Of Gaming?
I’m guessing that Sony is sick of seeing the portable gaming market go to Nintendo, not to mention Apple with the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones. I say that because they announced their next generation Playstation Portable today. Codenamed “NGP” it looks like it will kick a** and take names…. At least on paper. Here’s what it has under the hood:
- A quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor
- 5-inch touchscreen OLED display with 960 x 544 resolution
- Dual analog sticks
- 3G
- WiFi
- GPS
- Rear-mounted touchpad
- The same accelerometer / gyroscope motion sensing as in the PlayStation Move
- Electronic compass
- Cameras on both the front and back
- Games shipping on “new media” as opposed to UMD discs…. I’m not sure WTF “new media” means, but whatever.
Oh yeah, the really big news is that all of this will allegedly be available this holiday season. If all of that is true and they can deliver this on time, then a lot of people in the portable gaming industry have reason to be scared. Very scared.
February 2, 2011 at 4:48 am
Yup, it’s a really nice spec, and having Modern Warfare on the platform is a brilliant move.
I think that in houses where TV time is at a premium, this will be a popular device for gamers who can catch up on the typical console games, whilst the partner or kids watches TV. PSP was supposed to do this really, but the controls were just too limiting to make it work, but this time I think they’ve got it right.