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PSP2 as powerful as PS3, set for Q4 launch

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HD device on shelves by Xmas; Media storage solution keeps retail in the mix; Third parties to help drive launch buzz
Sony isn't going to take Nintendo's 3DS challenge lying down.
The format-holder is preparing a swift reveal for the true PlayStation Portable successor, due at Christmas. As was reported yesterday, the first announcement is pencilled in for January 27th.
Most importantly: the format-holder is pitching the device as a high-end portable equivalent of its next-gen home console, with rich games content to match.
Sony has told licensees the device ‘is as powerful as the PlayStation 3’.
High-level sources told us they expect Sony to start outlining its 2011 handheld strategy within days of Nintendo events in Amsterdam and New York detailing the 3DS Easter rollout plans.
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The new PSP is expected to arrive within the Q4 period, perhaps as early as October, and includes a HD screen with twin-stick controls in the familiar ‘brick’ form factor.
Sony has already consulted publishers about launch timings and the first wave of games.
It is specifically requesting richer, more in-depth content to differentiate its device from app-centric Apple and Android devices.
Plus, securing HD handheld games will help build launch excitement amongst publishers, developers and consumers over the next nine months.
Sony is already plotting to reveal more at GDC and E3 after this month’s first tease.
‘PSP2’ will even use a media format to make sure retail has a part to play in the console’s lifecycle by selling physical software.
But the device will also provide access to plenty of downloadable content, smaller games and apps via PSN – and maybe even incorporate a phone, but not as a primary function.
This next-gen PSP is separate from the games-oriented phone sister division Sony Ericsson is working on, which is due for its formal unveiling at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress in February. That device runs Android and downloaded apps and smaller games, plus potentially older PSone titles.

Source: http://www.mcvuk.com/news/42499/PSP2-as-powerful-as-PS3-set-for-Q4-launch
 
Wow that looks much more better than the current PSP go. Will the UMD come back?
 
its rumored they might work it out some how, but it's also rummoured that because this is a new console/generation they might not but it
either that or special memory sticks with games on them or something.
 
Shade said:
its rumored they might work it out some how, but it's also rummoured that because this is a new console/generation they might not but it
either that or special memory sticks with games on them or something.
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Oh, i would still buy it though
 
yeah since I odn't have any consoles I'll more than likely buy it unless they end up making another POS such as the psp go
 
yeah the psp is the best handheld/portable console in my book
 
They won't need to bring back the UMD. The idea of digital download is significantly more profitable than releasing a disc in stores. If Steam (on PC) doesn't give one a heads-up on what's going to be the futre, I don't know what is.
 
el canadiano said:
They won't need to bring back the UMD. The idea of digital download is significantly more profitable than releasing a disc in stores. If Steam (on PC) doesn't give one a heads-up on what's going to be the futre, I don't know what is.
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its already stated that they will have in store physical media, as the psp go was only digital media and was a total flop because many users didn't like the idea of having to download the games to the psp go and not having a physical copy, and since memory was limited on the go you were limited to a certain number of games

steam is extremely different then sony with the psp

they target to different demographics, its almost to the point where you can say they are not competitors and that they cant be compared.

since one is for pc which its users are more keen to the idea of downloading and installing without physical copies, and then you have the people used to psp and do not like the idea of not having physical media
 
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