The PSP2 Has FINALLY Been Confirmed and it's Not What we Expected

This is Sony's next portable handheld, codenamed the NGP, Next Generation Portable. As you can see, it looks a lot more like a PSP than many people were guessing; the key additions and changes are a 2nd analog stick, moving the power button to the top, moving the storage slot to the top, and making the games cartridge based for the first time in Sony's history. Here are the exact specs, as provided by Sony:


CPU: ARM Cortex-A9 core (4 core)

GPU: SGX543MP4+

External Dimensions: Approx. 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth) (tentative, excludes largest projection)

Screen: 5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colors, OLED

Touchscreen: Multi-touch screen (capacitive type)

Rear touchpad: Multi-touch pad (capacitive type)

Cameras: Front camera; rear camera

Sound: Built-in stereo speakers; built-in microphone

Sensors: Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer); three-axis electronic compass

Location: Built-in GPS; Wi-Fi location service support

Keys/Switches: PS button; power button; directional buttons (Up/Down/Right/Left); action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square); shoulder buttons (Right/Left); right and left sticks; Start button; Select button; volume buttons (+/-)

Wireless communications: Mobile network connectivity (3G); IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n = 1x1) (Wi-Fi) (Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode); Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (A2DP/AVRCP/HSP)


In addition to all that, the NGP will have full PSN support, including trophies. Sony has hinted that 3G will not be included on all systems and may release two versions of the handheld, a cheaper version without 3G and the base version that includes it. Because the NGP has Six-Axis and Bluetooth technology, it's entirely possible this could be used as a fully functional PS3 controller. As far as what media games will come in, Sony has created a new flash-based cartridge that will be the main medium games will come in. The other media is digital download just like the PSP and PSPgo before it. As far as how games will be saved via digital download, Sony has not revealed anything other than the NGP does feature a slot to put a memory card of some sort, but has not revealed whether it's an SD card, a memory stick, or onto a hard drive. It's fairly obvious that because the games will not be disc based anymore, games can be saved on the cartridge.

This thing is going to be incredibly expensive.