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Re: PSP2 Information Emerging

Live Area is like the hub page for a game, where users can get information on different games, and jump right into the PlayStation Store, and other parts of the PS space.

It's easy to hop in and out of the game almost instantaenously. Think about how fast you can open and close apps on an iPhone. Same speed here, when launching games.

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You can drill down even deeper to see how many people are playing Hot Shots in your area, for example. If you see someone playing a game, you can touch it and buy it instantly on the PS Store to start playing for yourself.

Tapping on the avatar shows the games that user was playing recently. This is like a Google Map for gamers, showing when, where, and what people are playing. So much information!

[Burns11]

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Meh. I went in at probably an 8 on the interest scale, and now I am at a 4. It would be higher if I was in Tokyo or NYC where all of the Live Area stuff might have been at all useful, but I'm not. It's just too big and doesn't do enough, I just wouldn't be able to carry this and a 4"+ android device.

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Also the port of Lost Planet 2 (which looks slightly less than the ps3 version) only took 2 weeks to complete.

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Meh. I went in at probably an 8 on the interest scale, and now I am at a 4. It would be higher if I was in Tokyo or NYC where all of the Live Area stuff might have been at all useful, but I'm not. It's just too big and doesn't do enough, I just wouldn't be able to carry this and a 4"+ android device.

What are you looking for it to do?

The social apps and stuff im not interested in but its there

The scanning in realtime to see whos online wherever you point it is cool but I dont care of online stuff that bad

Im worried about price

[Leon]

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Their Playstation Suite thing just did the Android platform one huge favor. A unified store for games. Also, SONY is practically making Playstation phones without actually having to make one.

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Their Playstation Suite thing just did the Android platform one huge favor. A unified store for games. Also, SONY is practically making Playstation phones without actually having to make one.

True enough Leon

Althogh it makes me wonder if this is just their way of breaking the phone into the market at some point since android has such growing popularity

[Leon]

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True enough Leon

Althogh it makes me wonder if this is just their way of breaking the phone into the market at some point since android has such growing popularity

I bet. As a direct rival to Apple's App Store (in-terms of games, anyway), Playstation Suite has a good chance of leveling the playing field for Android devices and leveraging the Playstation brand. Developers would have a unified framework to work with (which should make things easier considering the multiple hardware) and a direct sales channel compared to the old fragmented Android stores.

I don't own an Android (iPhone user) but I find that very exciting. Now if you can take your data on your phone, then play it on your new PSP, now that would be impressive.

[Flawless]

Re: PSP2 Information Emerging

Source: NGP battery life is 4-5 hours

The recently announced PSP2, codenamed Next Generation Portable, has a battery life of between four and five hours, Eurogamer has been told by a source.

Six to eight hours of life was Sony's original target, Eurogamer understands.

Sony announced the NGP this morning at a Tokyo press, but failed to discuss the device's battery life.

NGP pricing is also yet to be revealed, but Eurogamer was told this morning that Sony will "make a loss".

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Features, Specs, Software

Key NGP features:

• Multi-touch 5-inch organic light emitting display (OLED) as the front display
• Multi-touch pad on the rear of the device
• Dual analog sticks
• Two cameras (front and rear)
• Software titles on small, dedicated flash memory-based cards
• Three motion sensors, gyroscope, accelerometer and electronic compass
• Wi-Fi and 3G network connectivity
• PlayStation Network access, including ““LiveArea™”, “Near” and “Activity” log features Trophy Support
• NGP will be able to play PSP titles, minis, PS one classics, video and comics from the PlayStation Store.

Technical:

• 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 (Touch screen) - 5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colors, OLED Multi touch screen (capacitive type)
• Rear touch pad - 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 stick, Left stick, START button, SELECT button, Volume buttons (+/-)
• Wireless communications - Mobile network connectivity (3G), IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n = 1×1) (Wi-Fi) (Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode), Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR （A2DP/AVRCP/HSP

Software Franchises shown or talked about at PlayStation Meeting 2011 (titles are not final)

• Killzone
• Uncharted
• WipEout
• LittleBigPlanet
• Call of Duty
• Resistance
• Little Deviants
• Hot Shots Golf
• Reality Fighters
• Gravity Daze
• Smart As
• Broken
• Hustle Kings

[BlueNGold]

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4-5 hours? Ouch.

Well, it does look nice as hell. That's for sure. And finally dual analog sticks!! It shouldn't have taken 6 years for that to happen, but oh well. Glad they got it in now.

I'm definitely more interested in this than I was before the announcement. I don't think I'm going to jump in and buy it on release day or anything, but I guess I should wait until I see what games come out on launch and get more details on the system itself before I say that for sure.

I'm just thinking that (and this could be said for every gaming system on the face of the planet) it'll be better to wait a little while so the early issues get ironed out, the games get better and all that good stuff. Hopefully they'll figure out a way to extend the battery life down the line as well.

[DickDalewood]

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Sooooooo awesome! I'm ecstatic that they kept it in the size/design of the 3000... that device is SO much more comfortable to game on than the Go. And being able to have TRUE portable versions of Uncharted, Killzone, and Resistance? HELL. YES.

I'm in.

BTW... what's the point of the touch pad on the rear of the system?

EDIT: AND IT SUPPORTS TROPHIES??????

[adice15]

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Hopefully gamestop or someone does a promo to get more money for your old psp if you trade it for this one.

[DickDalewood]

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More pics:

[DickDalewood]

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Electronic or not... that thing is sexy.

[CaptainZombie]

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I am all over this one for sure pending on price......that thing looks sweet and sounds awesome from the specs. Hopefully it won't come in over $300 or else Sony will be looking at the premature death of this thing. I can see the argument that this thing is a beast, but in this economy and people's spending habits have changed.......you want to convert those 60 million+ PSP owners to this device.

My only concerns are the analog sticks. I wonder if those will be comfortable or not.

Plus this is another thing to add to my Trophy addiction. LOL!