Magazine unveils new PSP2 pictures?

A magazine called PSM3 has an article related to PSP2 with supporting images of the portable gaming device. The image of the PSP2 looks like the leaked devkit images that were published by VG247 but the picture quality seems pretty sharp, neat and seems to have details as well.

Could this be real? Could this be fake? Only time will tell but till then, it's best to take this news with a grain of salt.

[EYEamNUMBER1]

well im sure there will be a few people who blindly believe this and post without even clicking on the link lol

[dc1]

..But boy does it look good!
(See beginning of the article second paragraph)

[Zydake]

Maybe they'll announce the PSP2 soon to battle the 3DS. And if it can play PS3 type of games 0.0 it'll be day 1 to me !

*Edit

forgot to add that of course its a fake but my original post is a thought.

[Comet]

I did a few researching and apparently PSM3 approached this guy from an online forum...

http://forums.luxology.com/...

[oli]

even if this were a psp2 concept model or wutever, id prefer the thumb nubs below the d-pad and buttons, not above

[HolyOrangeCows]

Probably a mockup.

EDIT:
@Comet
LOL, oh geez.
So much integrity in this industry.

[ThanatosDMC]

Bad desing on the buttons by the screen. It needs to be flat not sticking out and terrible positioning of the sticks. Oh well, whoever made the pic is good though.

[Muletroid]

who approved this? why is it even a top page article?

there is no article or story here its just A FORUM POST
i see waaaay loads of people report something just because its a forum

how did this get approved man the rules don't even matter here anymore

at least make a story out of this

[Digitaldude]

Yeah looks good, sleek design. I wouldn't mind if it was real.

[Masterchef2007]

It does look nice. But i have doubts on how usefull the track pad will be since you cant exactly see where your fingers are on the screen. I rather wait for official specs from sony. I am sure that it will be more powerful than the 3DS what i dont know is how much more. If they can replicate 360 graphics on the go that would be great

[nveenio]

I don't even think the article is real. If it is, they have a number of typos that were missed by the editor. Plus, this would have to be the best mag scan EVER (of course, I'm not sure if it's a digital copy, since I couldn't find a digital copy available on the mag's site). Or, if this is a leaked PDF, who is the source?

Second, I don't think the design is even real because the placement of the analog sticks don't seem natural.

[gaffyh]

It's obviously a render, but it doesn't look sleek enough to be a Sony design. The analog placements look like they will be actually quite comfortable there though, even though it looks a little strange.

[SWORDF1SH]

it is a design they made based on that psp2 photo and info they have received.

I have this mag and they make that point very clear

[CrazyForGames]

obviously fake

frontline isn't even a gaming magazine
this is like Time having a scoop on a gaming system before its even revealed

[Nitrowolf2]

It's not Frontlines Mag its PSM3

[Nitrowolf2]

Looks just like the PSP GO, except with more stuff and different location of buttons +2 Analogsticks. Looks better built also the the GO.
http://www.wokay.com/wp-con...

IDK, according to the page its a render dev kit. I like how it looks, i'm not really sure what i am expecting to how the PSP2 to even look anyway. Just as long as it's powerful.

So built in camera (both front and behind)
2 AnalogSticks
and a Track Pad

[-Superman-]

Only time will tell

[qface64]

how did this even get passed? its not even a story its just a forum post

ive had a bunch load of stories closed simply because it was a forum even when they actually had a story to it
>____>

[Darth_Bane79]

And I have also seen a lot of good stories getting reported because a bunch of goofballs think it's lame.. So it's basically like this: Personal opinion > Actual fact.

[showtimefolks]

when i say either it will be announced at GDC or E3 my guess is we will see it at GDC

as long as it has 2 analong sticks and it can produce a little better graphics i am all for it

[kneon]

The Playstation phone, or whatever they are going to call it will likely be announced at the Mobile World Congress in February. It's possible, though unlikely, that the PSP2 could also be announced then. But E3 is the most likely time for that announcement.

[meetajhu]

Its PSM3 and i think its legit.

[8thnightvolley]

is this is he psp2 for real i would get it thou powerful little bugger.

[Blacktric]

"A magazine called FRONTLINE..."

It's Frontline section of PSM3 magazine. Look below.

[CaptainPunch]

Idk, it looks pretty legit to me. Hoping for Sony to officially reveal the PSP2 soon.

[Bull5hifT]

I sorta really dont like all that extra wasted space on the round edges, id prefer round bottom,and a morphed squarish look to fit the nice Huge 720 p display on top ..... A thing that sorta bothers me out in public while playing is looking down at the screen , i feel im growing a hump and forcing a double chin ... Always in that position

[cLiCK_sLiCK9]

Lol...I remember when everyone was calling the PS3 Slim fake and ugly when first pics were first leaked. Turned out to be real as time passed.

[Sharingan_no_Kakashi]

definately needs to be cloud based only. I know we all like our hard copies but in order for it to be a truly portable system it doesn't need to be held back by having to carrying disks or memory sticks wherever you take it. Without a disk drive, hdd, or a memory stick slot it should drop the price considerably as well. come to think of it... this could be what playstation cloud was patented for. As long as they put the entire psp library on it.

[Punknoodle]

How would that work on a portable system depending on crappy wifi for the internet?

[alojuanjo]

FAKE.

http://forums.luxology.com/...

[dc1]

..and I really love my Droid X. Very happy that its not out now...as I fear that my very powerful 'knee jerk' purchasing powers would take over.

[Tony-A]

Looks just like the blurry dev kit shots. If true, it looks more sturdy than the PSP.

The way the buttons and analog sticks are dug in would add validity to the rumors heard from IGN about them being somewhat "concaved".

Whatever. My rumor-squashing abilities were done after truly believing that the old "leaked PS3 Slim" footage from a store in Indonesia was 100% fake. I was shocked to find out that a small store in a foreign country actually got a hold of the Slim 4-5 months before it was even announced.

[SnakeMustDie]

Its obviously FAKE!! Although I hope its real. I want a new NEXT-GEN PSP that can run games as beautiful as GoW3.

[NonApplicable]

All the idiots who are screaming "FAKE!" should read before mouthing off. The website clearly created this image by comparing the previous leaked dev kit. In fact, it explains it in the post...

[KiasuKiasiMan]

Frontline is the name of the section.

The magazine is the PlayStation Magazine 3

[silkrevolver]

... I’d be fine with it. I actually like the PSP Go’s form factor.

[wenaldy]

It's PSM3..!!! Hope that's legit tho'..

[Solbadguy]

If that's how it looks then I'm buying day one.

[supremacy]

like the features, don't like where the buttons are placed.(it almost looks like someone holding a dualshock upside down, thats not comfortable at all)

i mean it would make more sense the other way around or atleast one of the nubs in one area moved. like if the left stick and d-pad switched places that would make more sense. And if the right stick and the face buttons switched places as well, that would also just about do it for me.

It just looks uncomfortable i don't know.(speaking of the button placement)

As far as this design goes, i don't like it to be honest. But it looks like it can be a very comfortable device to hold in your hand which is always a plus.

Personally i would prefer something that looked sleek and sexy as hell like a smartphone look, but with these features of course. Something a bit more square-ish if thats even a word, you know like an iphone 4 if you will. Only a little bigger ofcourse and with the slide aspect of this design well for obvious reasons.

Overall i truly believe the next psp will be a beast of its own. Heck from all the talk of how powerful this thing is i wouldn't be surprised if you saw a near perfect port of games like resident evil 4, ninja gaiden and such on the handheld.

[IrishYamato_]

I like the position of the sticks. It looks really comfortable. Hopefully they use this control layout on the real thing.

[RevXM]

I would prefer the analogs placed under in the inne side, like Im used to with the Dualshock.

The analogs look comfy though.

Exept for layout I think it is a good design.

Fake or not, Psp 2 is being revealed soon either way I guess.

[problemchild84]

I agree that the placement of the sticks looks good and comfortable.

Depending on how big the unit is, switching the placement of the sticks with the buttons and D-Pad would be kinda uncomfortable, especially for longer gaming sessions

[Chaos Striker]

The shots of the new device isn't the PSP2. This section of the magazine is simply a supposition of what the PSP2 and PSP Phone can be and how the two products can fit in the realm of other smartphones and handheld gaming devices. The description also notes that the pictures shown are most likely out of date because a new PSP2 development kit was released which kept the original PSP design rather than the PSPgo one due to overheating issues. An interesting read nonetheless.

[StarScream4Ever]

If thats a render of the dev kit there's one question: UMD?

[Tony-A]

Most likely ruled out completely, but I think the idea of having games come in Memory Sticks is absolutely brilliant!

Maybe there would be some way of being able to read legitimate game saves from Memory sticks so that you can transport UMD games over to the PSP2 by Mem Sticks, you know?

I think it would be much easier carrying a pile of memory sticks around instead of UMDs. The PSP2 can keeps it's small PSP-Go-esk form factor and games can still come to retail. Everyone wins!

[irepbtown]

Noo,
One memory stick, go to the store, insert it in a slot, buy the game and done. Its in one memory stick which is like 60gb.

Now that would be sweet.

[Tony-A]

Even better. haha

[joel_c17]

i would buy it day 1

[YourFlyness]

The guy created that render based on the leaked photos... IT IS NOT REAL. The magazine asked him to create it for them.

Even if it was real it would be a pain to play with the button so deep down with those edges( I understand so it can slide, but too deep)

[s0ph1atr0n]

It's good looking concept art. I hope the final product doesn't look like that though. It's too much like the Go.

[BornToKill]

holy shit!

sold.

[R6ex]

Was hoping the screen would be larger.

Anyway, the speed at which Sony develops the PSP, I'm past caring.

Bring on the PS4 already!

[younglj01]

lol I'm sorry but tha PS4 is not coming anytime soon.PS3 its about to be tha PS2 all over again.

I would like to be tha first to congrats Sony on selling 100 million PS3.

[RevXM]

2012 soon enough?
I would love to have a ps4 by the end of 2012.
When a console turn 6 (years old) its time to launch the next gen IMO.

[KaiokenKid]

Thatll be cool if it looks like that. I like the two thumbsticks.

[theafroman]

it might be a fake pic but if psp2 looks like that ill orgasm

[younglj01]

please release tha PSP2 that this mag unveils.Even if this picture is fake I would buy 2 of them day 1.

[NonApplicable]

Is the second one for me?

[younglj01]

lol mayb since im in a christmas mood. ;)

[godslayer429]

this is epic

[RyuCloudStrife]

but not sold til i hear official words either way day 1 for me

[Relientk77]

Why did the analog sticks and d-pad/right side buttons switch places? The analog sticks are supposed to be underneath

[supremacy]

Thats what I mean, uncomfortable just to even imagine myself playing with this thing.

The psphone on the other hand has it right, the only thing with the current psphone model is the touch pad sticks? They are just flat and all I can picture is someone doing circles in a 2D enviroment. I believe that in order for that work out fine in a 3D space they would have to somehow make them green dots pop out like two little lumps for that 3D feel, both physically and in game, but ofcourse not too big of a lump that the phone couldnt slide open either.

With the psp2 I would simply switch the button layout and find a way to shave that deep feel it displays near the stick area for that whole analog feel.
But really though they should find a way to do this without a deep feel, man imagine playing a fighting game with that feel, specially something like say street fighter? good luck with not getting your thumbs caught in the middle of a fireball bout. Because we all know how does go..

[strickers]

The render is based on the leaked pics(PSM3 did indeed commission it)but apparently that was a n early design given to devs.
Now it is a single piece like the first PSP because it was over heating and this change apparently helps that problem.The screen is larger than PSP by nearly in inch,is the rumour and HD.

[liveActionLeveler]

What I don't understand is that by switching to a PSP1000 form factor, they wouldn't have a lot of space for buttons with a 5.3in screen, unless the PSP2 is really big. So I think that the PSP2 screen was supposed to be 5.3in in the PSPgo form factor, but now since it looks like the PSP1000, the screen size has also changed.

[Michael-Jackson]

With people complaining about the sticks above the buttons and dpad, have you actually tried it to see if it works or not? I think it's bad but I haven't tried it and can't think of anything that has this set up.

[RevolvingHeart]

if they actually use/go with that analog placement it could be revolutionary. really hasnt been done before on a major console/handheld.

[Vherostar]

Cant visit that site in any of my browsers it has a redirect loop that is endless and wont let me view it.

[Rahim92]

I hope this isn't real, cause it looks hell ugly. Plus it already looks really similar to the PSP Go. How about a square-ish design this time Sony ?

[Stealth20k]

Anyone who thinks it will be dd only is fooling themselves. They need a store precense or else it will basically fail immediately

Cart like read only memory sticks will be sold in stores with games

[Theonik]

Should be under rumour.

[9thGenHero]

Didn't care to read the article, I only know that I'm probably going to splurge and buy a Monster Hunter Version of this PSP when it comes out LOL

[josephayal]

I cant wait to paid $400 usd for this beauty

[zero_cool]

I don't like the twin analog placement in that picture which the analogs should be where the face buttons & dpad are just like on the dual shock controller speaking of which dual shock should be in psp 2 along with a hd touch screen,motion censors & keep the xmb interface no need for a brand new interface just build off the xmb interface.

[raiden-49]

luckly the pic is based off the prototypes

[alojuanjo]

FAKE!!

[Laeto256]

Sony Ericsson has a completely diff device, the PSP 2 will be a legit PSP 2, like going from PS2 to PS3. Fake as hell and that trackpad was dumb we've already seen from the dev kit that it's just a line on the back probably used for tapping as L2/R2

[-Gespenst-]

I think it looks super slick if that's actually it.

[RAVEN81]

sweet

[RAVEN81]

sweet

[liveActionLeveler]

If this were real, which it is not, I think a trackpad on the back would get really dirty with lots of dust in the edges.

Here's a confirmation of the pic being a fake render from the artist.

http://forums.luxology.com/...

[sam2236]

Not very original is it (If it's real, that is)? Looks like the Go with an added analog stick.

[raiden-49]

ITS A 100% RE-RENDERED FROM THE PICS SEEN FROM VG247!
dont disagree i have the mag here and it says it in black.

[ShinFuYux]

When the magazine easily states "this is a re-rendered image of the leaked pictures."

It's a good article, read it, you fools!

[Bounkass]

I don't think a magazine would be the first... I'm guessing someone who works for the magazine, or someone who get's their hands on the pictures...

[kraze07]

Location of analog sticks seems kinda dumb to me. Doubt this is legit.

[creamsoda]

Looks alright, I just got a PSP 3000 and it feels so comfortable to play with. Not a fan of this design though the PSP2 will have to have some really spectacular features and upgrades from the psp to really impress me.

[Solid_Snake-]

5 models later and they call it a number 2. lol

[remanutd55]

it better have Full psn functionality , let me watch my HD movies from the store not just SD , text , chat with my psn friends , trophies , PS home , 2 analog sticks and a kick ass launch line up ( doesnt need much just Uncharted , Little Big Planet 2 , Motorstorm Arctic Edge 2 , Resistance Retribution 2( on first person view ) , Guerrilla Games new IP and Sony Santa Monica on board and im good to go lol

[JasonX43]

Isn't this like the 3rd or fourth time this has been posted on here?

[alojuanjo]

FAKE

http://forums.luxology.com/...

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

It's a render based on the REAL dev kit, obviously the pictures fake but the hardware's real.

[Hozi89]

I only hope the battery life of the real PSP 2 last at least 4-5 hours with Xbox 360 type graphics for it's games.

[tubers]

Cool but the buttons are etched too deep for comfort.

[tweet75]

no backwards compatibility with umd discs? no thanks !

[chainer3000]

Same image was published in game informer last month, with a caption saying "Artist Rendition" - as in, not a real picture of final product, just an estimate.

[WhoBurnedMyToast]

I think they should just throw out their designers. Sony is so obsessed with "style" they forget to actually test it in peoples hands.

I own the PSP-1000, and a PSPGO. I have 300+ hours on Monster Hunter on my 1000. I play the PSPGO for more than 20 minutes and my hands get all cramped up. Screw that design Sony.

Also my SONY Ericson phone is a slider, and it lasted 1 year before the screen stopped being able to communicate with the rest of the phone resulting in a black screen. If that's the quality of the slider tech Sony has, I fear for my PSPGO, and for the PSP2 if they go with slider.

:Q