The recent news about the 2009 PSP lineup raises up one question…”Is the PSP2 not in the works?”
The PSP2 is rumored to have a touchscreen, Dual Analog Sticks, UMD format dropped entirely. Do we really need this soon? Look at this like, what was the main problem with the PSP? The lack of games. Where are the games? The PSP was lacking software, not hardware. Look at what Nintendo is doing now with the DSi, adding SD slots to match technology of the PSP. The PSP to me has advanced hardware for a handheld system.
On the UMD format, everyone wants it gone. But why? Everyone claims it is a useless format BUT WHY? Is it becuase it’s not third party? Every handheld system has their own media, and isn’t third party? No one complained about The Gameboy with the cartiages and the DS with the chips. Or is it becuase everyone is scared on the shape of UMD? I don’t know. What format would you like to use? To me there is no point to take UMD format out, unless they are going into the whole digital distrubution era early.
For the hardware. Does Sony really need to add all these hardware features to jack up the price? And for what? Sony learned their lesson with the PS3. The PSP is selling like crazy and is Sony’s money maker. I feel the PSP affordable. There is no reason to raise the price for new hardware if it isn’t necessary. If they did with all these rumored features it would bring the price up to around $400. Everyone would go crazy, but you get what you asked for I guess. The PSP was lacking software, and now with the this new lineup for this year I feel Sony is basically staying comminted to the PSP and giving it what it needs; software. Isn’t that what we truly all want?
Point is, yeah we will eventually see a new remodel/design/upgrade of the PSP as with everything as technology advances. To me, I feel the PSP will be in need a revision in 2011 when it announced not this year at E3, but next year at E3 2010 to be released in 2011. We will see though. E3 2009- June 2-4th!
As always, Thanks for the support, and stay tuned tomorrow for Vice Weekly 24, as we will discuss this PSP2 deal more and discuss Killzone 2 right here at GamingVice.
-Havoc
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The lack of games is largely attributed to lacking hardware. For instance, the biggest money maker in the game industry is FPS games. The PSP needs a second analogue stick for FPS games.
Strategy games would need a touchscreen with the lack of a mouse/dual analogue.
Finally, the PSP is notorious for its poor battery life, and this in large is attributable to the UMD drive. The real doom of Sony’s PSP will be when gamers who hacked their system and are playing ISO games off their memory cards have better battery life than those who are playing games off UMDs, the way Sony intended it to be.
So yes the PSP hardware does need a major revision.
As for the PS3 fail, it’s easily explained by:
1) Came a whole year after the Xbox 360.
2) It’s difficult to program for, and ports from the X360 easily worse due to this fact.
3) Lack of exclusives.
4) Too expensive components.
While the PSP2 wouldn’t be using hardware that hasn’t been used on smartphones for more than 2-3 years now.
I hope we see a PSP2 this year as the current PSP is too old-gen and lackluster for me now.
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