New PSP to take on iPhone this Christmas?
Thanks to a chatty developer, we recently heard and relayed rumors that the next-generation PSP will have a sliding screen. Well, a second mystery developer, who's allegedly "working with the new hardware," has upped the ante: he or she claims Sony's next-gen portable gaming console will actually have a sliding touch screen along with the much-requested, dual-analog thumbsticks.
This all comes from Pocket Gamer, which doesn't name its "insider" source but says, "The new handheld will arrive before Christmas and will be far more similar to the iPhone than the current device." It also claims the new PSP will be announced in June at E3.
Take the rumor for what it's worth, but all the chatter seems to suggest that a new PSP will be a true PSP 2 and not just another incremental upgrade. Pocket Gamer speculates that Sony accelerated development on the new device after the success of the iPhone and the arrival of the Nintendo DSi. There's also continued talk that the new PSP will forgo UMD and instead rely on an expanded PlayStation Store that rivals Apple's App Store (at least in terms of games).
If this all pans out the way the rumors are pointing, I don't think there's any doubt that the PSP will be a better gaming device than the iPhone. The question is, what else will it be capable of doing? As I've said before, if Sony can integrate some of the features found in its Mylo Communicator, things get very interesting. If not, Pocket Gamer probably won't be able to go around calling the new PSP an "iPhone beater."
What do you think?
Source: Pocket Gamer via Kotaku
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However is the PSP2 is to compete with the iPod Touch it will have a WVGA or WSVGA screen so older games may look pixelated. But they'll load really quickly since it should have 64gb of inbuilt storage and M2 expanded.
Hopefully it will run on 1.5ghz snapdragon with 1gb of ram too.
http://kotaku.com/5153705/rumor-syphon-filter-5-in-development
It has a touch screen. Great, that's awesome.
It does not make it anything like a cell phone. Stop comparing it to an iPhone!
No, they shouldn't make it into a phone.
No, they shouldn't market against the iPhone.
The pure and simple facts are that the Playstation brand is for gaming, and the iPhone is for... phone calls (it's not a gaming machine, no matter how much you try to convice yourself).
Stop drawing weak parallels between two completely seperate products.
I don't dislike the iPhone, it's just not a gaming console. I wish people would stop making these comparisons.
Another issue is that gaming devices take A LOT of abuse. Do you really want to put your iPhone through this?
The hardcore gamers need more than cute little iphone games. iPhone doesn't have the hardware to support those types of games. Give it another couple of generations.
Rendrik Said the iPhone is not a gaming console and you try to shoot down his comment by using a qualifier in your own. You just proved his point. The iPhone is not a gaming device.
The iphone is a serious multifunction device approaching a hand held computer... please, smart phones are nice but a random restaurant selector and a bunch of over grown widgets don't make a device a portable computer
catered to people who want to play indepth games with a Real story and good graphics. That said I belive a psp could threaten the iPhone with a better Internet browser and music player. I like both and don't see why there is so much hate on both sides.
Moreover..... it's clear that the iphone is attempting to horn in on the gamer market..... but they haven't a clue how to do so. An accelerometer and a touch screen do not make for "good gaming".
The iphone isn't a threat to anything, it's joke.
A bad joke at that.
"It's just a mock-up, but could it be close to the real thing?"
And it doesn't look useless. It actually looks pretty cool! In side views of this mock-up (yes, they exist) the triggers are on the side, so you would hold it like a conventional Gameboy. That is, if you used it like me and put your index fingers on the side.
$249 isn't that bad actually, 299 would be ok if it had multitouch and 64gb of storage.
Rumor also has 16GB internal storage. Think about it... more power, less phone, and $50 less than a comparable iPhone! Which is not a mainstream gaming device. If the iPhone were just a gaming device, it would fail miserably.
Get a clue SONY
There are lots of flaws in the iphone like a 2 mp camera!! That is not advanced its backwards actually, its a given that apple has revolutionised the phone world by introducing touchscreen something phone manufactures that have been long in the biz should be ashamed of failing to deliver!
http://ipcommunications.tmcnet.com/hot-topics/ims/articles/4660-lg-prada-develop-worlds-first-touch-screen-mobile.htm
i don't even see how you can even start to compare them...
I'd definitely like it if they allowed you to prove you owned UMD games and then let you download them to the new device. This thing would seriously be my one and only device in my pocket, and it would go with me everywhere.
- by Tarkona April 7, 2009 2:44 PM PDT
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