Capcom: NGP's OLED screen can make PSP games look better!!!
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The much-anticipated PSP2 is not going to be called a PSP2 at all. Instead, it'll be codenamed NGP (Next Generation Portable) and it's coming this holiday season in Japan. Sony's unveiling tonight in Japan produced a ton of details, so come with me on a magical journey/bulleted list:
* Revolves around five key concepts: Revolutionary User Interface, Social Connectivity, Location-based Entertainment, Converging Real and Virtual (augmented) Reality
* 5" OLED touchscreen
* 960 x 544 resolution (four times more than the PSP); graphics will rival PS3
* Dual analog sticks (not nubs!)
* 3G
* Built-in WiFi
* Rear-mounted touchpad (directly under the front screen, and the same size, too)
* Accelerometer/gyroscope (same tech as in PlayStation Move)
* Electronic compass
* GPS
* Front- and rear-facing cameras
* UMD format being abandoned; games will be on flash-based "new media" (looks a bit like a DS cartridge, but no specific name yet)
* Compatible with PlayStation Suite (basically the Android phone PSN)
* New user interface called LiveArea, featuring cross-game social networking
* Trophies
* First handful of game demos: Uncharted, LittleBigPlanet, Killzone, Resistance, Little Deviants
That all sounds super cool, no? Here are the official tech specs from Sony, and check out the pile of NGP images in the gallery below (sorry about some of the engadget watermarks):
* 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: 5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colors, OLED
* Touchscreen: Multi-touch screen (capacitive type)
* Rear touchpad: 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 and left sticks; Start button; Select button; volume buttons (+/-)
* Wireless communications: Mobile network connectivity (3G); IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n = 1x1) (Wi-Fi) (Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode); Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (A2DP/AVRCP/HSP)
Launched earlier this week, Sony's hefty NGP already has quite a number of game developer fans. Among them is the company behind Gears of War, Unreal Tournament and Bulletstorm.
"I've played our demo on it and I've played Dungeon Defenders on it," said Epic vice president Mark Rein. "I think Sony has done a great job with this device and that it caters to many gaming experiences."
Unreal Engine, the popular game engine found in titles as diverse as the iPhone's Infinity Blade, Xbox 360's Gears of War, has already been customized to work on Sony's new platform, Rein said. Adding that the NGP is "in the same class as the Playstation 3."
"We're already impressed with what we're able to do with it today and we're really just getting started," he said.
Rein declined to say what games his company may be working on for the device, but pointed to how quickly the cross-platform tactical RPG Dungeon Defenders was able to make the jump to the NGP.
"At Sony's PlayStation event we showed Trendy Entertainment's Dungeon Defenders game on NGP," he said. "It was a great demonstration of Unreal Engine 3's fantastic cross-platform capabilities.
Trendy had never even seen NGP prior to coming to our office and in under a week they delivered the fully playable version of the game we showed on stage... If we had given them another week they would have shown us NGP playing against PS3 as well – they already plan to deliver that functionality when they ship the game."
Rein calls the NGP a "pretty huge deal" for not just Playstation fans, but gamers.
"A truly portable high-end gaming experience just seems so awesome to me," he said. "I've said for a while that triple-A isn't going away, it's going everywhere. The idea of a portable device that delivers the kinds of high-performance dual-analog stick experiences I can get on a console definitely appeals to me as a gamer and the NGP can do that and so much more."
You should just wait for PSP2 then and see if the PSP games are compatible with it. Hopefully, PSP2 can improve the graphics of PSP1 games. It's not impossible, cause if those specs are real, the psp2 can achieve early or maybe current day PS3 games in graphics quality...
I really want to get Final Fantasy 1 & 2 and Kingdom Hearts for PSP
I hope the PSP2 still uses UMD, Sony should realise the PSP GO flopped for a reason. People aren't ready to just download all their games, plus certain developers refuse to release thier games on the PS Store and only release them physically.
Good for them I think, they have the right attitude. I'd buy a physical product over a download anyday, it's the same with music.
I really want to get Final Fantasy 1 & 2 and Kingdom Hearts for PSP
I hope the PSP2 still uses UMD, Sony should realise the PSP GO flopped for a reason. People aren't ready to just download all their games, plus certain developers refuse to release thier games on the PS Store and only release them physically.
Good for them I think, they have the right attitude. I'd buy a physical product over a download anyday, it's the same with music.
O noes... UMD sucks! bb.Long Load times, Too Expensive and Too big to carry around. I'd rather have an SD card than a UMD...:heart:
PSP2 sounds promising. The first PSP became old to me really fast.
I hope they bundle Gran Turismo Portable with the hardware. I didn't like Gran Turismo PSP as much as I've thought I would cause there were no SIMulation option. I mean Gran Turismo without a SIM option? I'm not having that...
I'll update this thread. The first post has already a gameplay of Uncharted embeded, I'm still searching for all the videos of the conference so for the meanwhile that's it.
Launched earlier this week, Sony's hefty NGP already has quite a number of game developer fans. Among them is the company behind Gears of War, Unreal Tournament and Bulletstorm.
"I've played our demo on it and I've played Dungeon Defenders on it," said Epic vice president Mark Rein. "I think Sony has done a great job with this device and that it caters to many gaming experiences."
Unreal Engine, the popular game engine found in titles as diverse as the iPhone's Infinity Blade, Xbox 360's Gears of War, has already been customized to work on Sony's new platform, Rein said. Adding that the NGP is "in the same class as the Playstation 3."
"We're already impressed with what we're able to do with it today and we're really just getting started," he said.
Rein declined to say what games his company may be working on for the device, but pointed to how quickly the cross-platform tactical RPG Dungeon Defenders was able to make the jump to the NGP.
"At Sony's PlayStation event we showed Trendy Entertainment's Dungeon Defenders game on NGP," he said. "It was a great demonstration of Unreal Engine 3's fantastic cross-platform capabilities.
Trendy had never even seen NGP prior to coming to our office and in under a week they delivered the fully playable version of the game we showed on stage... If we had given them another week they would have shown us NGP playing against PS3 as well – they already plan to deliver that functionality when they ship the game."
Rein calls the NGP a "pretty huge deal" for not just Playstation fans, but gamers.
"A truly portable high-end gaming experience just seems so awesome to me," he said. "I've said for a while that triple-A isn't going away, it's going everywhere. The idea of a portable device that delivers the kinds of high-performance dual-analog stick experiences I can get on a console definitely appeals to me as a gamer and the NGP can do that and so much more."
i dont like PS3 it doesnt let me play PS2 or ps1 games on it
and i only play south park rally which is on PS1...they need to upgrade it to play all.
if thats what NGP is for?
You can PS1 games on the PS3
And they've upgraded certain PS2 games into HD (with trophies too) to be playable on the PS3 (God Of War 1 & 2, Prince Of Persia 1, 2 & 3, Sly Cooper 1, 2 & 3)
