I don't like the placements of the sticks, wouldn't it be a bit hard or uncomfortable to hold it when the sticks are too close to the edges of the device?
...and there you have it...the truth ladies and gentleman, the pics are so grainy because a 1 year old took them. Or at least a person under the age of 3.
But even though .... this thing has got my undivided attention. I would much much rather have this then the 3DS.
It looks flawless .... couldn't ask for anythig more and judging by that comment about the memory ... I expect a effin powerhouse of technical goodies underneath the hood.
Seriously though, even if this device has all the features, expect it to play second fiddle to the 3DS till the end. It will bee seen as premium priced, more serious gaming/multimedia hardware and will not sell nearly what Nintendo will.
That fixes one issue. I'm wondering what kind of media they will use, I know umd is out, and I'm not sure if there just going to do DDL. Touch Screen? My hopes for the PSP2 are high, and can't wait to see what it can really do. The PSP has sold 60 million +, A really soild, sleek, and multi-functioning PSP2 could easily pass that in this day and age.
This looks pretty good. I’m hoping for two more things for the PSP2, now that it’s got two analog sticks. ((#1)) I hope Sony will start releasing PS2 Classics (like the PS1 Classics already on the Store) and they will be playable on both the PS3 and the PSP2. Alongside this wish, I hope the PSP2 will have all four shoulder buttons so all PS2 games will work. ((#2)) I hope Sony will get rid of the UMD format and put the PSP2 games on ROM SD Flash cards. They’re small, easy to carry around, and are available in capacities up to like 64GB, even more than a bluray disc. ——————- I really hope the first thing I wrote will come to fruition because having the PSP2 being able to play the entire catalog of PS2 games would be a HUGE selling point. GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas are all games I’d like to see put on the PS Store as PS2 Classics and I hope they’ll be playable on both the PS3 and PSP2.
it's just a prototype-ish model sent to devs containing the beast within. The form factor aswell as the actual design of the console will change drastically before hitting markets. Sony has sent this to devs so that even if it's leaked, like in this case, the final "look" will still be retained.
Alternatively, it might be that they haven't really finalized the design yet and hence sent it to devs in the current form.
The earlier if they are smart and the later if they are lame.
Looks horrendously poorly fabricated, even for a dev kit/prototype. Interesting though, shame the images look like they were taken from a 1990s camera phone.
My point exactly, why fabricate some random D-pad and buttons like those when you have the ones you already produce in the PSP Go. It would have been cheaper.
Are you serious? Did you see the Ps3 dev kits, they were monsters. Sony isn't going to spend their money making beautiful looking dev. kits that are only going to be used for testing, debugging, and programming, just to throw them out and ship the next build of dev. kits to developers. That's a waste, if Sony did that, we'd be paying mad extra money for the console when it ships to consumers. It's all about what's on the inside, and when Sony finalizes it, they will wrap it all up in a nice, shiny, ergonomically correct shell.
Update: We’ve been told by a source that these images are from the last kit. There’s a newer one, which is a single, non-sliding block. Remember those last Kotaku rumours of the unit over heating? Sony switched back to the current PSP form in order to cool it down.
Wtf? Do you guys expect someone with a freakim Nikon taking pictures CSI style? I'm sure that these were really hard to get and not taken from an actual camera. Common sense is dead
To all those sperting fake because it looks too much like a console, surely that's pretty logical, instead of giving them some computer with a VGA port and telling them to use and design for certain specs, it'd be wise to give them a similar to final design and make a game designed for those layouts.
That would explain the early PSP games who used the analogue stick poorly.
Well its probably a shi*** pic because someone risked their job to take it. This would be very hush hush with confidentiality agreenents signed. I cant wait to see what a beast this will be. I hope its not 300 though as i could get a ps3 for that.
i hope the final product has two analogs
Looks like cheap plastic, and it's nothing i imagined it would be.
Or maybe it's just a prototype.
Can't wait to throw my old psp away for this
The final design will likely be given a big overhaul. Sony would never use a d-pad design like that. They always separate their direction buttons
Looks horrendously poorly fabricated, even for a dev kit/prototype. Interesting though, shame the images look like they were taken from a 1990s camera phone.