[PSP2 DISCUSSING THREAD]ARE YOU READY FOR PSP2 ?

alexanderswang

ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF PSP?

SOURCE

Sony CEO Speaks Out on PlayStation Phone

PSPgo Gets Price Cut in US

PSP2 Hits Next Fall With Dual Analog Sticks, Touch Pad and Bigger Screen

NOTE: The above image is not a picture of the new device just one of many fan-created mock-ups of a new PSP.

In an interview during PAX 2010, Mortal Kombat Executive Producer Shaun Himmerick revealed a successor to the PSP, the "PSP2", stating "... we have a PSP2 in the house and we're looking at the engine, like what can it support. Always a big thing for us is the performance. We're running at 60 fps, what can we do and do we have to build all the art assets over. We're definitely looking at them. PSP2 looks like it's a pretty powerful machine."

PSP - PlayStation®Portable : Game on - wherever, whenever

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PSP History

PSP-1000 released in December 2004

PSP-2000 released in September 2007

PSP-3000 released in October 2008

PSPgo released in October 2009

PSP2 will be released in ??? ???

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PSP Games

Top PSP games from metacritic http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/release-date/available/psp/metascore?view=list&num_items=100

Upcoming PSP games
God of War: Ghost of Sparta
Michael Jackson: The Experience
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Predator
... ...

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Media Go

Media Go is a video and audio player developed by Sony Creative Software, announced at E3 2009 for Microsoft Windows. Media Go manages content on Sony family products such as Sony Ericsson cellular (mobile) telephones and the PSP (PlayStation Portable)/PSP Go; it is also able to playback multimedia content, serving a similar function to that of Apple's iTunes. Media Go is capable of accessing the PlayStation Store, Sony Ericsson's PlayNow Arena and in some cases, third-party online stores (such as BigPond Music, for Telstra customers), while serving as a replacement for the Sony Creative Software "Media Manager" applications, used by the PSP (PlayStation Portable)/PSP Go, Sony Ericsson and Walkman products in the past.

Media Go homepage http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/mediago/default_enu.asp

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PSP region codes

PSP-x000 Japan
PSP-x001 US / North America
PSP-x002 Australia / New Zealand
PSP-x003 UK
PSP-x004 Europe
PSP-x005 Korea
PSP-x006 Hong Kong / Singapore
PSP-x007 Taiwan
PSP-x008 CIS
PSP-x009 China
PSP-x010 Central / South America

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Spicy_Rev

What the what?

cloudeagle

Cool your jets, Alexander. Kotaku loves to print unsubstantiated rumors. Absolutely nothing is confirmed yet.

joshofalltrades

The real question is, "Is the world ready?"

And right now the answer is probably no.

Later, maybe.

alexanderswang

Well , maybe it's not true(cause Kotaku has released a rumor before) , but something is better than nothing ...

And what is true is that PSPgo in Japan and US has a price cut today which does mean something , right ?

Unlucky

alexanderswang wrote: »

And what is true is that PSPgo in Japan and US has a price cut today which does mean something , right ?

Terrible sales.

joshofalltrades

It means you can now buy a PSPgo for a cheaper price today than yesterday

alexanderswang

joshofalltrades wrote: »

It means you can now buy a PSPgo for a cheaper price today than yesterday

Actually I've bought a PSPgo early this month , it's too bad isn't it ?

Rent

joshofalltrades wrote: »

It means you can now buy a PSPgo for a cheaper price today than yesterday

so you're saying things change from the past going to the future?

Do you know what else was in the past?

The PSP1.

THINK ABOUT IT!!!

joshofalltrades

Seriously though I did look around on the news sites and every site that isn't Kotaku that is reporting this exact thing with those two exact pictures in the OP is citing -- for their article --

Wait for it

Kotaku

ShinyRedKnight

I wouldn't be surprised if the rumors are partially true. I mean we just saw the announcement of the 3DS and its release date. Sony doesn't want the PSP to seem like its going to lose, so of course they want to play the 1up game. Usually that means a hurried announcement.

It would be interesting timing though, to announce the PSP 2 only a few months after the full release of the 3DS, rather than before.

To be honest, I prefer the PSP. I understand why the DS is huge, and I'm excited for the 3DS. But no games on the DS have entertained me as much Peace Walker and Monster Hunter on the PSP. So I'm really looking forward to a next gen PSP.

alexanderswang

I like PSP too .

It's a perfect entertainment platform rather than a great gaming machine , what makes me crazy about PSPgo is the use of digital distribution which makes the go smaller and sexier !!!

Rakai

alexanderswang wrote: »

joshofalltrades wrote: »

It means you can now buy a PSPgo for a cheaper price today than yesterday

Actually I've bought a PSPgo early this month , it's too bad isn't it ?

Considering that Amazon and Walmart have been selling it for $200 for a while now, the price cut to $200 means it's actually still the same price.

alexanderswang

Rakai wrote: »

alexanderswang wrote: »

joshofalltrades wrote: »

It means you can now buy a PSPgo for a cheaper price today than yesterday

Actually I've bought a PSPgo early this month , it's too bad isn't it ?

Considering that Amazon and Walmart have been selling it for $200 for a while now, the price cut to $200 means it's actually still the same price.

I bought PSPgo at the price of $200 , but it'll surely get a cut at Amazon and Walmart soon . So if someone wants to buy one , just wait for a few days ... 8-)

urahonky

Of every console out this generation I know that the PSP has clocked the least amount of time played by me. Maybe hovering around 40 hours... That's because of Crisis Core and FFT. The thing about the thing is that it's very uncomfortable for me to play. I always get a sore neck, or my hands start cramping... I can't really enjoy it.

I hope they end up with a better handheld next generation. If it looks almost identical to the PSP then I'll just not buy one and save myself the money.

cloudeagle

alexanderswang wrote: »

I like PSP too .

It's a perfect entertainment platform rather than a great gaming machine , what makes me crazy about PSPgo is the use of digital distribution which makes the go smaller and sexier !!!

Yet the exact same digital distribution didn't make the PSP-3000 any smaller. Maybe it's got a slower metabolism or something.

NailbunnyPD

Am I crazy or do these pictures look like the same mockups that came from the PSPgo rumors?

cloudeagle

NailbunnyPD wrote: »

Am I crazy or do these pictures look like the same mockups that came from the PSPgo rumors?

No, you're right. They are.

Mostlyjoe13

cloudeagle wrote: »

NailbunnyPD wrote: »

Am I crazy or do these pictures look like the same mockups that came from the PSPgo rumors?

No, you're right. They are.

Verily, tiss rumor and not fact.

Big Classy

I see it's that time of year again, PSP2 rumour season.

TetraNitroCubane

I remember a while back that one of the devs on the Mortal Kombat reboot 'let it slip' that they had a PSP2 'in house'. I think the original story was this one over here, but I'm not sure how much credit I'd give that. A lot doesn't add up - it seems weird that a developer would just blurt something like that out, particularly in such glowing terms under unprompted circumstances.

alexanderswang wrote: »

I like PSP too .

It's a perfect entertainment platform rather than a great gaming machine , what makes me crazy about PSPgo is the use of digital distribution which makes the go smaller and sexier !!!

Really? I mean, I like the PSP plenty, but calling it the perfect entertainment platform is more than a slight stretch. Let's face it, UMD movies ate it hard, and the PSPGo is a rather silly waste of money, considering you were paying more to get less.

Jubal77

enGadget has pictures that look identical to the ones posted in the OP.

Talkc

The only way id be interested in the Psp2, is if its cheaper for the amount of power, than the 3ds.

If its significantly more expensive than the 3ds.... it better be way more powerful.

Lucedes

I don't want them to release the PSP2. It is completely unnecessary, as the PSP's library is sort of weirdly reaching its prime, and hasn't really begun to decline yet.

UncleSporky

Lucedes wrote: »

I don't want them to release the PSP2. It is completely unnecessary, as the PSP's library is sort of weirdly reaching its prime, and hasn't really begun to decline yet.

How does a library decline? You mean that devs are still making high budget games for it, it's not relegated to nothing more than the yearly Madden?

Why would the library matter at all if none of it is selling? I think KH was its first top ten game in what, a few years?

cloudeagle

UncleSporky wrote: »

Lucedes wrote: »

I don't want them to release the PSP2. It is completely unnecessary, as the PSP's library is sort of weirdly reaching its prime, and hasn't really begun to decline yet.

How does a library decline? You mean that devs are still making high budget games for it, it's not relegated to nothing more than the yearly Madden?

Why would the library matter at all if none of it is selling? I think KH was its first top ten game in what, a few years?

At least.

PSP software has been selling utterly horribly for over three years, with the PSP itself selling like crap for at least a year and a half. If nothing, we're long overdue for a new generation.

joshofalltrades

Talkc wrote: »

The only way id be interested in the Psp2, is if its cheaper for the amount of power, than the 3ds.

If its significantly more expensive than the 3ds.... it better be way more powerful.

I'm not trying to be a douche, but this is the wrong way to look at it.

The other thread on this -- the one that got so retarded I had to leave 2 or 3 pages in -- had somebody claiming they wanted the PSP2 to be as powerful as the PS3, but portable. This was just... yeah. I'm not even going to go into how much such a device would cost.

There is a difference between portable gaming and gaming at home on your couch. That's why the PSP has failed to compete closely with the DS, in my opinion; Sony didn't understand that people don't want to watch movies on the tiny little screen. They don't care about super awesome processing power or a handful of exclusives (no matter how desirable they may be). They want portable gaming, which is its own thing, at an affordable price, and they want something fun.

Sony has just seemed so out of touch the last few years. They've been desperately trying to seize on the demographic of people who want the biggest newest fastest thing with the most CPU clock cycles per second no matter what the price! The PS3 finally came into its own after the price dropped.

If there's a PSP2 on the horizon, I hope it's fun.

alexanderswang

joshofalltrades wrote: »

Talkc wrote: »

There is a difference between portable gaming and gaming at home on your couch. That's why the PSP has failed to compete closely with the DS, in my opinion; Sony didn't understand that people don't want to watch movies on the tiny little screen. They don't care about super awesome processing power or a handful of exclusives (no matter how desirable they may be). They want portable gaming, which is its own thing, at an affordable price, and they want something fun.

But in fact if you have a PSP , you don't need a MP4 or MP5 any more . And maybe you will not need a cellphone in the future since SONY released the news that cellphone functions might be added to the new generation .

Gaming is the most interesting entertainment while it's not the only one . Some people do like listening songs , watching videos and surf the Internet wherever and whenever , PSP can meet all of these needs and also it's definitely better than an iTouch for it's a perfect gaming machine , maybe not much better than but still not worse than the NDS .

Unco-ordinated

cloudeagle wrote: »

UncleSporky wrote: »

Lucedes wrote: »

I don't want them to release the PSP2. It is completely unnecessary, as the PSP's library is sort of weirdly reaching its prime, and hasn't really begun to decline yet.

How does a library decline? You mean that devs are still making high budget games for it, it's not relegated to nothing more than the yearly Madden?

Why would the library matter at all if none of it is selling? I think KH was its first top ten game in what, a few years?

At least.

No. 13 months.

Anyway, this is the second PSP2 thread based off nothing but random rumours, well done?

Glal

alexanderswang wrote: »

Some people do like listening songs , watching videos and surf the Internet wherever and whenever , PSP can meet all of these needs and also it's definitely better than an iTouch for it's a perfect gaming machine , maybe not much better than but still not worse than the NDS .

PSP can only "surf the internet" as a pure technicality. It can. Doesn't mean anyone not a complete masochist would ever want to.

vagrant_winds

Glal wrote: »

alexanderswang wrote: »

Some people do like listening songs , watching videos and surf the Internet wherever and whenever , PSP can meet all of these needs and also it's definitely better than an iTouch for it's a perfect gaming machine , maybe not much better than but still not worse than the NDS .

PSP can only "surf the internet" as a pure technicality. It can. Doesn't mean anyone not a complete masochist would ever want to.

Unless you have CFW and install a custom browser where you avoid the ram cap and surf much faster. It's at least a hell of a lot better than surfing on the DS that way.

But really... leave portable internet for your smartphones. That's what they're there for.

Spicy_Rev

I am on my second psp and I would buy another if this one broke or something happened to it. The device is realyl great, and I would gladly buy a psp2. The only caveat is that I would not buy it if it uses the slide up design that the Go has and this mockup has. Honestly, one of the things that keeps the psp in constant use in my house is the ability of my son to watch movies on.

How the heck could they really provide a sturdy, durable case with that design? I know the DS is pretty tough, but a psp with a good hard case is really great as well. This is just something I want and am worried that I won't get.

greeble

I love my psp. Its been my most used console since the summer started. (I've put more time into it than my 360 and wii put together) That said I'm going to be real cautious about buying a psp2 simply due to the fact that I think the 3DS + iPhone is going to bury it and and I'm worried that developer support will drop off fast.

Borys

So does Sony want to repeat the PSP vs DS battle with PSP2 vs 3DS or do they aim big and will target Apple (iPad)?

Only time will tell. When Reggie kinda-sorta positions Apple as their real competitor it would be funny if Sony fought with 3DS yet Nintendo acted like PSP2 doesn't even exist.

ShinyRedKnight

Borys wrote: »

So does Sony want to repeat the PSP vs DS battle with PSP2 vs 3DS or do they aim big and will target Apple (iPad)?

Only time will tell. When Reggie kinda-sorta positions Apple as their real competitor it would be funny if Sony fought with 3DS yet Nintendo acted like PSP2 doesn't even exist.

I wouldn't be surprised if Sony tries to take on both Apple's Ipad and the 3DS.

The psp2 can be a great thing, but at this point it needs to be more than an updated PSP.

urahonky

Hopefully they change the name too. PSP2 doesn't sound really good.

UncleSporky

urahonky wrote: »

Hopefully they change the name too. PSP2 doesn't sound really good.

It shall be called the PSP vIBE.

Borys

urahonky wrote: »

Hopefully they change the name too. PSP2 doesn't sound really good.

Hmm I think name is good, it has to have the PSP abbrev. somewhere maybe iPSP

Kidding aside PLAYSTATION(TM) brand has to be in the name but I agree that the Portable part will be probably dropped just like Nintendo GBA --> Nintendo DS.

Playstation... Pad? Phone? Tab?

joshofalltrades

The PlayStation MAXImum Pad

Riokenn

PEESPEEN duex

But no seriously? Another PSP, WE JUST HAD A HANDHELD FROM YOU GUYS LIKE 5 YEARS AGO. >:/

alexanderswang

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