PSP2: Touch-screen, two cameras, games for “end 2010, beginning 2011″

VG247: If you thought a hint that PSP2 may make an appearance at E3 was exciting, get a load of this.

[saint_john_paul_ii]

LMAO no wai. 4 CORES??? 0_o. how about an extra analog stick and a web browser that works. i know that its primarly a gaming machine first, but i want web browsing on the go properly.

[darkmurder]

Yeah I'm sure you can get 4 cores...? That would chew through the battery like a mofo. If this was real this product would be priced ridiculously high considering the stuff that's in it.

[NOOBKILLA]

Well it is Sony, so the PSP 2 hardware is most likely going to be out of this world. The key is the price point for the thing. In my opinion, it has to be about $199 or less for people to think about jumping on it day one. I hope the price isn't close to the cost of a PS3 ($299) or it will fail to make the numbers.

[WhittO]

Well they could 'under-clock' it taking less power/heat etc.

Isnt that what apple does with the iPhone ?

Im looking forward to PSP2, I skipped the PSP because I thought the games were of low quality but would buy the second 1 with better graphics/more integrated PSN etc.

[SuperM]

Bullshit. There are always people that will buy it on launch nomather how high its priced. But if you want it to sell alot over a long period of time then you will have to lower the price. However i find it highly unlikely that they will price it as low as 199$. Do you expect apple's next iphone to launch at 199$ perhaps? Surely PSP2 will cost just as much to produce as Iphone4G

[NOOBKILLA]

I agree with you, people will buy it regardless no matter the price point. People bought the PSP Go and it was $250 bucks. Did it make it in the long-term? Nope, that crap failed!! I mean hell I am going to buy the PSP2 regardless because I'm a whore and I get all new systems. =) But the average consumer is going to look at it like why should I buy a PSP2 for let’s say $249 when I can add $50 and by a PS3. Also, let’s say the price of the PS3 drops $20 to $50 before the PSP2 comes out. The PS3 could possibly be around $249 - $279 by the time the PSP2 hits. I just think Sony has to think of the long-term and know that the 3DS won't be over $199.

[HighDefinition]

Two analog sticks or it`ll will most likely be a no go for me.

[360RRODFIX]

agree, if after all cries and rant from fans and media, they still ignore and put one stick, then f them.
BTW this description sounds unrealistic. Especially no disk part. After how big flop PSP go was

[Parapraxis]

I couldn't imagine them NOT having 2 analog sticks.
The PSP was their first foray into the handheld market (pspgo is merely a redesign)
People have been asking for dual-analog for years now, it'd be bad business not to improve the controls.

Also, if those features were legit the PSP2 would be EPIC.
Throw in BC with all the downloadable PSP games and you have a winner off the get-go

[SuperM]

Iphone pretty much proves you dont need a physical disk drive to be a success. Id go as far as to call Sony stupid if they added one. It would only take up space and battery time. I dont know if you even could call PSP Go a flop but the reason it lags behind the original PSP in sales is because its higher priced and because not all PSP games are availible on PSN yet. With the PSP2 all games will be availible on PSN and will be cheaper then if you were to buy them in a store. Its gonna yield more profit for publishers and less cost for gamers.

[Ju]

It would just be a "microCell". 4 cores could be a MIPS PPU (or a PPC - mips uses less power) and 3 SPUs. SPUs use low power. For a handheld, no GPU would be needed in that case. Or just an additional texture unit. But that would mean complete Sony inhouse. No Tegra or ARM or anything...interesting.

[kharma45]

A PSP with a Cell chip with 4 SPE’s? (note SPE’s, not actual cores. PS3 has 7 SPE’s)

The battery life would be horrible were they to do that, plus how would you cool the bloody chip in it?

[randomwiz]

its not going to be the same chip with less cores... its going to be a mini mobile version of it in a smaller, more efficient design.

In my opinion, I'd rather just see a powerful single core processor with an apple app store type process... that way, we can see MANY more games, and I as a regular person can develop for it. But if they're not going to open up their developer market like that, I don't care what they put in it, as long as its cool.

[kneon]

That's right, it would be a low power version, running at a lower frequency and using the latest (smallest) fab process. This makes sense in that developers would have an easier time porting PS3 games.

[kharma45]

Yeah suppose they could do a CULV version or something, though I'd be highly sceptical of it being the Cell or a variant of it.

It could always be a Snapdragon chip in the new PSP

http://goonlinegames.net/20...

[Ju]

SPUs totally make sense. Sony owns the design, it's low power and it can replace the GPU. Over all, this could be less power / cooler than the current PSP - and much more powerful. I doubt, though, they'll use a PowerPC PPU core. Either they stick with a MIPS or replace it with an ARM core.

Sony's own PhyreEngine runs on the PSP already, it would be easy to port it to such a PSP2. Tool chain could even merge with PS3. Mobile PS3 games (kind of dual binary) or like Minis running on the PS3. Yeah, that would be cool (960x540 res on PS3 would be good enough, LOL).

[saint_john_paul_ii]

the bigger problem is how much is the thing going to cost. hopefully they have learned their lesson when it comes to pricing based on what happened with the PSP and the PSPgo.

[mrv321]

Isn't the big battery eater hard drive or disk drives? If it moves to SSD then the battery life could be increased or even just a flash drive.

Sony announces a nuclear battery for the PSP2 :P

[Briefcase Joe]

I'm thinking about avoiding game sites 'til E3. I'd like some surprises, and there will be hardly any next month.

[NewsForSnowflakes]

PLEASE!!! No more effing cameras. We don't need to add cameras to every device we own. I'll use my camera as a camera thanks. I think I must own about 6 devices now with unwanted and unused crappy cameras.

[saint_john_paul_ii]

with cameras in place natively from the get go, you now have games that would take advantage of it. why wouldnt you not want it? not to mention they are cheap to add as well.

edit: yes they do. with the right imagination, anything is possible.

[Stealth20k]

Cameras add nothing to games period

[Stealth20k]

That sounds so fake. Without a physical medium, the system has already lost to the 3ds..... that is if it was true

[sinncross]

This does sound fake.
Personally I think the PSP2 should simply just be a stronger PSP with:
- 2 analog nubs.
- 4 shoulder buttons
- basic rumble
- Sixaxis tech

This way your PSP2 could function as a PS3 controller which could be very nice!

and i think it will include physical media... the PSP GO has proved to Sony that only digital releases at this point is not entirely feasible for their core market.

[willie6289]

"That sounds so fake. Without a physical medium, the system has already lost to the 3ds..... that is if it was true"

Yeah, no device has ever been successful without physical medium. oh, except for that little iphone thing. but it never really took off.

[Akagi]

Jesus Christ, is VG247 trying to take HHG crown for rumour spreader?

[Brewski007]

This is why i decided not to buy a psp last year. Now this is on the horizon i'll wait :) . Looking good cant wait !

[capn_crunch]

So much for those NDA's eh?

[Dellis]

Give it up Sony, PSP as a brand and device its a total fail

how about restarting all over again?, leave that crap PSP

stigma behind and bring out something new?

[frankymv]

"4 core cell cpu"

damn thats hot

[food86]

lol im assuming you mean its hot because its running four spe's good one sir good one

[jay2]

Well £425 lauch date UK price for PS3 so I think it will be 'high' price wise, but don't forget how much you pay for phones, like £720 on an 18 month contract costing £40, people need to really think things through when it comes to cost.

People moan about prices, and yet they're paying, maybe more for other things without a second thought, and specs wise, sure why not, they've had yrs to make a smaller CELL CPU and what we have here.

Come on, how many cameras dose DSI/XL have, let's think, TWO, new iPhone, TWO, most phones for years, TWO so why not?

Temp wise who knows, I said it before and I'll say it again, PSPGO=tester for online DL only senario for PSP2, why? to prevent/try to prevent piracy.

Is PSP 2 coming, come on, we've known this answer since we saw PSPGO, Yes.

[Meryl]

it sounds really nice:):) but i hope the battery life is not going to suffer, make sure you give it a good battery and i will be happy sony, this will not cost as much as you think guys cell tech has been around for a while now i see it at no more than $199

[heylo]

bullshit.

You can buy a 4GB Micro SDHC card for about $9 and a read-only memory card produced for the mass market should be a lot cheaper than this.

[coolasj]

LOL. whatever. maybe they can do 3G with verizon

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

Just recently in the last couple of months researchers have made many breakthroughs in battery technology and here you guys are whining about how the PSP2 will eat up it's power.

There's also a 95% chance the the PSP2 will come with an OLED display since this company (I forgot the name) has just made a breakthrough in prolonging the lifespan of an OLED screen up to 15 years. This same company can now produce OLED screens in the 42" range.

So now there's no risk in equipping the PSP2 with an OLED screen since the fear of having the screen die within 4-5 years has now gone.

Some of you really need to keep up to date.

[Godmars290]

The PSPgo didn't have one when it sorely need it and came in at an insensibly high price.

Don't see how this is going to have two, doing all else that it does, and isn't going t cost as much as a PS3 when it first lanched.

Nevermind that it'll only have one analog!

[Heartnet]

They shud put crap technology in it then do Cloud Gaming lol.. make it cheap and have great graphics :)