PSP2: Official tech specs unveiled

wildhook2 on 27 Jan '11 said:

More powerful than Xbox 360.

Balladeer on 27 Jan '11 said:

Volume buttons.

Scage on 27 Jan '11 said:

£400-£600.

plodalong28 on 27 Jan '11 said:

Wow! looking good. Although i'm currious on what kind of battery this monster is going to have.

StonecoldMC on 27 Jan '11 said:

What was it Vanilla Ice Sang again?

Price Price Baby?!

photoboy on 27 Jan '11 said:

Seems rather big for a portable device. Not exactly going to slip into the pocket when it's only 2cm shorter than a GameGear... I'm excited by the power of it, but I can see this being left at home in favour of a smaller device like the iPhone or 3DS.

plodalong28 on 27 Jan '11 said:

£400-£600.

i'm going for £300-£400

djreplay on 27 Jan '11 said:

All aboard the hype train.

shogunreaper on 27 Jan '11 said:

@photoboy

Ipad doesn't fit in people's pocket yet they like to claim its a portable gaming machine aswel.

I wouldn't want to put this thing in my pocket anyway, even if it was smaller unless you have super big and baggy pants it would be uncomfortable to walk, not to mention sit.

altitude2k on 27 Jan '11 said:

:shock:

More powerful than Xbox 360.

A handheld that's more powerful at launch than that of a 6 year old console? Who'd have thunk it, eh?

Insidious on 27 Jan '11 said:

So, every spec but the battery, then? Let's hope there isn't any particular hype-killing reason they left it out .

shogunreaper on 27 Jan '11 said:

Have they reported on if it's going to have physical media, and if so what it is?

rivariad on 27 Jan '11 said:

it literally f.cked the xbox 360

prof_crunchy on 27 Jan '11 said:

Quad core, OLED screen?...Jesus, this is gonna rape my wallet.

sweatyBallacks on 27 Jan '11 said:

F*ck i was excited to see this reveal first thing when I woke up.

Was dreaming about the CVG website last night in anticipation.

Looks like a little beast. First handheld ever with a quad-core processor? Or is it a quad-core dedicated graphics cards? Or BOTH??

mattant79 on 27 Jan '11 said:

rivariad "it literally f.cked the xbox 360"

Does that mean the PS3 is "f.cked" aswell then?
Seen as more people own 360's than PS3's?

The_KFD_Case on 27 Jan '11 said:

I'm impressed. Looks like Sony addressed a lot of the long standing complaints from customers (ex. thumbsticks, etc.). Will the price be less than that of a PS3 slim? I'm not optimistic.

Mark240473 on 27 Jan '11 said:

The processor sits somewhere between an xbox and a 360, so I think the 360 and PS3 are safe for now.

However, for a portable gaming device, it sounds outstanding.

Like others have said, the battery life could be a deciding factor for some. I'm hoping that Sony have got this covered and it offers at least the same as the 3DS.

twyford on 27 Jan '11 said:

Great spec, but you only have to look at mobile phones and tv's to know that OLED screens don't come cheap.

I can't see how Sony can possibly bring it in at under £250 without once again swallowing huge losses on each hardware unit sold. Given all the grumbling and out right moaning about the price of the 3DS presumably feelings will be the same for this.

sweatyBallacks on 27 Jan '11 said:

Have they reported on if it's going to have physical media, and if so what it is?

It will use Flash cards, which is super-quick

Padua on 27 Jan '11 said:

I am glad they didn't go 3D
I hope it supports a Skype client or something similar.
Dual-boot Android would be funky

I am really excited in what they will demoing on this baby... is it too much to dream of a pocket-Uncharted?

I'd get it at £249 but my head says £299 which would probably doom it to a sorry sales start.

AegisK on 27 Jan '11 said:

Its roughly twice the power of the original Xbox (or 4 times more powerful than a PS2) CPU wise and the GPU can roughly produce the same poly count as an original Xbox on a 5" screen. So it'll look pretty good. But by comparison, its 24x less powerful than a PS3, which is what most people are claiming it to be "as powerful" as.

Independent research ftw :p

veato on 27 Jan '11 said:

Calm down ladies. Lets have a look at this quote from PowerVR

At 200MHz core frequency an SGX543MP4 (four cores) will deliver 133 million polygons per second and fill rates in excess of 4Gpixels/sec

That would make it only slightly better than the Xbox 1's GPU

Laughlyn on 27 Jan '11 said:

Compared to 3DS it looks great, screen is gonna look amazing but with such a high spec comes a nice high price.
Look at teh high end smart phones and Ipads, its gonna be a struggle to get the cost under £400, also what media are the games on? if the machine produces games similar to the ps3 then the games will use a lot of storage space n after a quick look around the news stories from this morning i cant see any info on where all the data is gonna be going.

Most the PS3 game downloads arn't usually a too bad size but then require the install. If its a download only like PSP go then thats gonna be a major put off for me cos games off PSN Store are a massive rip off (mass effect 2 just come up £47.99) and obviously badly for consumers, none of the evil and sinful trade ins on games u've finished

theres1dentevil on 27 Jan '11 said:

The battery life isn't going to be as bad as everyone thinks. The cpu is an arm core. Arm are based in cambridge and specialize in designing micro processors that use next to no power. They already run 98% of the worlds mobile phones. People are going to be pleasantly suprised.

veato on 27 Jan '11 said:

People are going to be pleasantly suprised.

My Desire HD uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz (similar in design to Cortex A-8 and using ARM v7 instruction set) and battery performance is pants.

El Mag on 27 Jan '11 said:

My Desire HD uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz (similar in design to Cortex A-8 and using ARM v7 instruction set) and battery performance is pants.

You need it running 1.21 gigawatts

lwill on 27 Jan '11 said:

About the desire having s**tty battery life, it does, if you leave all stuff like 3G/wifi/Bluetooh/apps on.

I turned all that junk off and it lasts so much longer, I just have it on when I need it.

Presumably the same can be said for this new PSP, we'll see I suppose, but I can't imagine there's any way in hell they're going to release it if you can't play games for atleast 2.5 hours!

originalbadboy on 27 Jan '11 said:

And cue the rabid fanboyism .....

It looks nice ... Might be worth a punt at some point

pRM8 on 27 Jan '11 said:

Turning the screen off will almost certainly save quite a bit of power...

boskersrevenge on 27 Jan '11 said:

Using someone else's PSP2 will most certainly save your battery.

nuggit3000 on 27 Jan '11 said:

Like others have said, the battery life could be a deciding factor for some. I'm hoping that Sony have got this covered and it offers at least the same as the 3DS.

I think they've got it covered, I hear that it will be bundled with a 1 mile power cable, so you can play outside.

Seriously though. Im so looking forward to this. I had a wish list for this which i thought was unrealistic....
iPhone4 quality screen
Touch screen
Dual sticks
Accellerometer
Gyroscope
Magnetometer
GPS
Front and rear cameras
Mic
and HDMIout (at least 720p)

Well, The screen isnt quite the resolutuon of iPhone, but is still impressive, and there is no TVout been mentioned.
TVout seemed to me like the most likey feature to me, as it is a mobile media device - not just a games machine????

Anyway, Im very impressed and may need to get me one

Sleepaphobic on 27 Jan '11 said:

:shock:

More powerful than Xbox 360.

A handheld that's more powerful at launch than that of a 6 year old console? Who'd have thunk it, eh?

Well considering it has never happened before (To my knowledge at least) then ya it's a pretty insane claim.
It's not going to be as powerful as the 360 or PS3 though, there's just no chance in hell it will be so stop believing everything.

If that's how it looks then great (Hade sliders) but the face buttons and d-pad look a bit funky IMO.

w1gg1ns on 27 Jan '11 said:

And cue the rabid fanboyism .....

It looks nice ... Might be worth a punt at some point

what about dennis?

pp82 on 27 Jan '11 said:

The clock speed of the standard ARM CortexTM-A9 is 1 ghz

anytime on 27 Jan '11 said:

Breaking news: microsoft reveals new console that's 8x more powerfull than ps3.

veato on 27 Jan '11 said:

The clock speed of the standard ARM CortexTM-A9 is 1 ghz

Actually the A9 is scalable so the 'standard' clock speed is nonsense. This is from their website:

Cortex-A9 implementations delivering 800 MHz - 2 GHz typical frequency and delivering 5000 DMIPS of performance per core

kimoak on 27 Jan '11 said:

And cue the rabid fanboyism .....

It looks nice ... Might be worth a punt at some point

what about dennis?

Milky milky!

nuggit3000 on 27 Jan '11 said:

what about dennis?

Milky milky!

Love it... Im guessing it went over most of the readers heads though.....
......thats you that is.

Anyway, call me a little slow if you like, but Ive just realised the reason for the touch pad at the pack. There is no room on the thin body for a second set of triggers, so the pad will be split down the middle for most games and act as analogue triggers

Cogglesz on 27 Jan '11 said:

Looks great, and i Can't wait for this years e3, it will bound to be full of surprises, can't wait to properly see one in action either, the thing is faster than most pc's, its totally packed with tech, i almost feel like this could get more interactive than Nintendo's dual screen approach to handheld gaming with the whole portable being a controller, accelerometers and gyroscopes with rear touch and front touch along with all the buttons and triggers and sticks, its got more going for it than the 3ds has in my opinion, but i'm someone who plays handhelds regularly, and not really out of the house, i don't mind a big non casual game that will take 30 hours to complete, this must be opening the eyes of some developers, i can just barely imagine what could be done in rpg games with all this new tech.

Windowlicker79 on 27 Jan '11 said:

The "rear touchpad" seems like an odd addition.
http://pspmedia.ign.com/psp/image/article/114/1146358/ngp2_inline_1296114626.jpg
I wonder what it could be used for?
I'm still secretly hoping Microsoft announce a portable device this year.

boskersrevenge on 27 Jan '11 said:

It reminds me of a shaving advert.

pRM8 on 27 Jan '11 said:

The "rear touchpad" seems like an odd addition.
http://pspmedia.ign.com/psp/image/article/114/1146358/ngp2_inline_1296114626.jpg
I wonder what it could be used for?
I'm still secretly hoping Microsoft announce a portable device this year.

That's quite a nice rear actually, curvy.

Windowlicker79 on 27 Jan '11 said:

That's quite a nice rear actually, curvy.

But why is it multi-touch sensitive? On the back of the console?

only_777 on 27 Jan '11 said:

:shock:

More powerful than Xbox 360.

A handheld that's more powerful at launch than that of a 6 year old console? Who'd have thunk it, eh?

Actually this is the first time a handheld as ever been more powerful than a current gen home console, so yes *shock*!

Stevo UK on 27 Jan '11 said:

they should call it "The Sex"

veato on 27 Jan '11 said:

A handheld that's more powerful at launch than that of a 6 year old console? Who'd have thunk it, eh?

Actually this is the first time a handheld as ever been more powerful than a current gen home console, so yes *shock*!

Apart from that fact its not more powerful than a 360

kriscotw9 on 27 Jan '11 said:

I think it will be around £300, as i cant see it being more than the current ps3.

so excited for this!!!

Welsh Jester on 27 Jan '11 said:

Wow we don't even know the speed of the 4 cores and idiots are saying "Wow faster than 360" already, how stupid can you get? just because something might have more cores doesn't mean anything, We have no idea what Mhz they are running at and i would bet no more than 400-500mhz each core.

The Bossman on 27 Jan '11 said:

I think it'll be £250ish, maybe more with a bundle deal. Can't wait for it. Toilet breaks will never be the same again.

only_777 on 28 Jan '11 said:

A handheld that's more powerful at launch than that of a 6 year old console? Who'd have thunk it, eh?

Actually this is the first time a handheld as ever been more powerful than a current gen home console, so yes *shock*!

Apart from that fact its not more powerful than a 360

I know that altitude2k is quite keen on the 360 and if he says PSP2 is more powerful then I'm inclinded to agree with him.

veato on 28 Jan '11 said:

I know that altitude2k is quite keen on the 360 and if he says PSP2 is more powerful then I'm inclinded to agree with him.

The official blurb from the GPU manufacturers website says this:

At 200MHz core frequency an SGX543MP4 (four cores) will deliver 133 million polygons per second and fill rates in excess of 4Gpixels/sec

So on that basis the GPU is just about more powerful than Xbox 1

dsluckay on 28 Jan '11 said:

Whoa!
Sweet!
Now,I own PSP 2000
All these up coming games for PSP2,is it possable that they can be play on PSP2000?