Sony Officially announces Next Gen Sony PSP (NGP) with Quad Core Processor and GPU

Today, Sony has officially announced its next-generation PlayStation Portable (PSP) in Tokyo. This PSP console is codenamed NGP (Next Generation Portable) and feature a 5 inch OLED touch scree, a Quad-Core Cortex-A9 processor and a Quad-Core PowerVR SGX543MP+ GPU.The Sony PSP 2 will come equipped with two cameras on its front and rear, as well as three motion sensors, gyroscope, accelerometer and electronic compass. It also sports stereo speakers and a microphone.

The Next Generation Portable device will have 3G, WiFi, GPS and a unique multi-touch pad on the rear.

Full Specifications of Sony PSP console:-

The PSP is definitely going to be one of the most powerful handheld consoles to hit the market with a quad-core CPU and a GPU. It is expected to be released by the holiday season of this year.

More details about Sony PSP (NGP).

Stunning OLED and Revolutionary User Interface

NGP incorporates a beautiful multi-touch 5-inch organic light emitting display (OLED) as the front display. A high-performance CPU / GPU combined with OLED enables rich, visually striking graphics never seen before on a portable entertainment system, for both games and other digital entertainment content. The new system also incorporates a unique multi-touch pad on the rear, and together with the front touch display, NGP offers new game play allowing users to interact directly with games in three dimension-like motion, through “touch, grab, trace, push and pull” moves of the fingers.

Super Oval Design and Dual Analog Sticks

While succeeding the basic design philosophy of PSP, NGP adopts the Super Oval Design form factor, created to fit comfortably in users’ hands. For the first time, a portable entertainment system will feature two analog sticks, which enable a wider range of game genres to be brought into the portable experience.

LiveArea

Every game title for NGP will be provided with a space called “LiveArea™” where users can share the fun and excitement with other players. Users will have access to the latest information of games provided from SCE and 3rd party developers and publishers through PlayStation®Network. Additionally, NGP users will be able to view an “Activity” log that is constantly updated with accomplishments from users who are playing the same game, which in turn can trigger active real-time communication among users.

Near

SCE will also provide location-based services on NGP as part of the basic features utilizing PlayStation Network. The new application called “Near,” developed specifically for this service and the network, will be pre-installed in the system to let users find out what their friends in the vicinity are playing now or what they were playing recently. Users can meet their friends and new players virtually, regardless of what games they are playing, simply by sharing their game information across different dimensions of time and distance.

New Game Medium

NGP adopts a new game medium, a small flash memory based card, dedicated for NGP software titles. Taking advantage of the flash memory feature, this innovative card can store the full software titles plus add-on game content or the game save data directly on to the card. By adopting flash memory based card, SCE will be able to provide game cards with higher capacity in the future, allowing developers to store more game data to deliver rich and immersive games.

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