NGP was with five key concepts in mind: Revolutionary User Interface, Social Connectivity, Location-based Entertainment, Converging Real and Virtual Reality. Along with a slightly new design including front and back touch screens, two analogue sticks, and front and rear facing cameras Sony's NGP boasts a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, a 5-inch touch screen OLED, 4 times the pixels as the original PSP, 3G, WiFi, GPS, accelerometer, gyroscopes, and an electronic compass.
With its two touch screens and two new analogue sticks the PSP has gotten a complete makeover which will modify the way portable games because the old PSPs had no touch screen and only one analogue stick. The old PSP also used used tiny discs to play.
Sony, with NGP, is breaking away from their traditional UMD's (Universal Media Disks) and moving towards digital gaming much like the app store for ipods. Sony is also trying to implement mobile gaming which is were they use your current location during gameplay similar to online gaming for the Playstation.
At Sony's live event they announced the NGP and they showed games such as Little Big Planet, Metal Gear Solid 4, Killzone, Uncharted, and Resistance. It is speculated all previous games on the Playstation the Playstation2, the Playstation3, and the PSP, but this has not been confirmed
Sony is planning on releasing the NGP this holiday season but it all depends on how fast they can work out all the minor details of design, and the logistics.
About these PSPs, why not get a smartphone? Can't they do the same things now?
ReplyDeletepsps are fun to play on i play my brothers a lot
ReplyDeleteI love the PSP! I think they are better than Nintendo DS.
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