PSP2 is NGP – everything in one place

Looks awesome……. and very expensive

$599?

“Five hundred and ninety-nine US dollars,” etc.

Hilarity aside, I reckon it’ll be £300.

£300 sounds about right. And by “about right” I mean “too fucking expensive”.

And by “too fuckin expensive” you mean “I’ll just get an 3DS instead, Sony!”

I can’t see this RRP’ing for less than the 3DS, so £300 sounds ‘realistic’ to me too.

No, I mean I’ll keep my money and spend it on booze and cheap women.

@7 If keeping the money, why not expensive women?

Mind you, at £300, it’d still be cheaper than an iPhone 4.

But an iPhone 4 fits in my pocket, and has loads of apps.

The size of this thing is strange… It’s too big for your pocket, but not big enough to be carried like a tablet or a netbook.

@ 9

I do hope you’re not insinuating that an iPhone is a better buy?!

From my point of view it is.

Oh come the fuck off it! Are you winding me up?

So if the PSP2/NGP hits stores at £300, you think that’s too much?

How much is an iPhone 4?

@ 10:

It totally depends on what you’re looking for.

If you just want to play console games on the go, I’m sure this is what you want.

But something like an iPhone 4, or even an HTC Desire HD, is a little PC in your pocket and much more.

Phone, email, internet, games, books, GPS, films, audio, podcasts, etc, etc, and with a better battery life too, if the rumours are correct.

I’m sure that this will have it’s own app store or whatever, but it will have to go a long way to get close to iTunes/Android Market.

I safely bet between $299 and 349$

That was a little bit trolly, sorry.

But like G1GA says, it depends on what you want from a device. If you offered me a 3DS, PSP2 or iPhone for free right now, I’d take the iPhone – mostly because I’ve no interest in carrying around “another” device and the software costs of the 3DS and PSP2 are likely to be far, far higher than I would ever want to pay for quick-fix gaming.

Your mileage may vary, of course.

iPhone 4 PAYG is about £500, I think.

Much less on contract, depending on the contract.

You are all wrong because you need to carry iPhone, PSP2, 3DS, DS, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC and 55 inch TV with yourself. If not, you are left in the dust. Sorry guys!

Fair points all.

£500-odd for Apple’s latest updated version of the same over-priced over-hyped device is frankly ridiculous to me.

we’ll need fairly large packets for that 55″ tv Erth

I say Job’s reality distortion field is nothing compared to Sony or Samsung’s presentations. those two make me sick.

It will be an interesting year for apple in the sense that there’s no Steve Jobs (on his med leave) and his ‘beautiful, magical,’ etc adjective speech so hey who knows it might do a bit worse this year.

PS Suite does sound like it’s trying to compete with the app store since it’s cross platform so we might actually see android prices on that storefront. Still too early to say but it could be that the PSP2/NGP might be trying to compete on two fronts with two things 1) sets of priced apps (Of course major devs won’t release titles on it, but you could get stuff like angry birds and other indie stuff for a pretty reasonable price I’m guessing)
2) regular games which it’s always been doing.

I have an iPhone 4 and PSP2 is a day one purchase for me.

Why? Because I am a gamer. Sure, my iPhone 4 has a few nice little gaming treats with stuff like PvZ, Infinity Blade and Dead Space, but gaming is my first love and my iPhone while a superb multipurpose device simply does not satisfy me terribly well from a gaming standpoint.

It could be down to the type of games on offer or even perhaps the unwieldly touch screen control methods that get forced upon you when you want to play something that isn’t a puzzle game, but ultimately I am a hardcore gamer and the PSP2 has the power to give me what I want on the move with comparable visuals to what I see in my living room.

As far as pocket room goes, I am a hardcore gamer, why the fuck do I care about looking fashionable/presentable?

Said it before, will say it again. To most westerners, a decked out Cell Phone > a dedicated handheld. It just makes more sense on a lot of levels.

That being said I am kind of excited about the PSP2, but at the likly price point I will have to wait a couple of years for the bundles to come out and the price point to fall, just like I did with PSP.

iPhone and gamer in one sentence, I lol’d hard.

Despite the price tag, I have to admit, it is a sexy little thing.

@24

Awww why is that? Because I didn’t list the rest of the consoles that I have or because you are utterly ignorant of the iOS platform in general?

@25

They announced a price tag!?

@26: second

@OlderGamer

Well just tell the wife and kids that your Taxes broke even this year, and hide the actual refund in a safe until time to buy..ROFL

@28

Hehe Can’t say I blame you tbh, there aren’t that many standout games for it.

@22

Spot on. It’s the control scheme that will be the greatest incentive for purchasing a PSP2. Touch-screen controls are all well and good but simply don’t have the responsiveness and tactile feedback needed for quite a number of gaming genres.

This is y Sony r bringing out this PS Suite thing because small games that maybe only require the touch-screen can be played using an Android phone as well as the PSP2 but for more ‘hardcore’ games the full control scheme of the PSP2 can be used.

I’m looking forward to this and hope that it has quite a few of the same features that r on the PS3 such as good Divx support for video playback, iPlayer, 4od and hopefully some way of playing PSN games I’ve bought on the PS3.

No good there Frosty, I have one of those nerdy smart type wives, she is the one that does the Taxes! I …I, just can’t figure …too many forms, makes my head hurt.

Only saving grace is that she is a gamer too, hence the new 68M hs on Biolab lol, but no way she would go for a handheld, me either till prices drop a fair amount tbh.

I want

Im getting the full shabang! 3g enabled, I’m not going through those crybaby moods about how they lowered the priced but dropped features again. Like the 60gb vs the 160gb ps3 you get what you pay for and I’m getting the whole package. The wonderful thing is there probably won’t be some b.s lite or slim version to release later because this bad boy is sexy and it knows it.

I’ve gone heterosony-ual!

Well this is looking awesome. So Uncharted is a spin off? That’s good. I don’t want to be playing only remakes.

Not too happy with their decision to go with this design though. Alot like the first PSP, and i found the PSP Go’s design much better. But i ain’t gonna judge so early though.

300$ for 32gb wi-fi version, 350$ for 32 gb wi-fi+3g version.

Anything higher than this and sales will suffer sooooo bad.

I don’t get it. Why would you need a touch screen on the back? I’m down for it I guess. I just don’t get it.

*TouchPAD, not screen, anyways, it’s so you don’t obstruct your view while playing, I would imagine that it’ll feel very natural once your get it in your hands for yourself. Hope when they do ports that we’ll be able to use certain sections of the pad as L2/R2 replacements, would have preferred those buttons to have been included but you can’t win ‘em all.