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what's up everyone John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo here and yesterday or this morning depending on which time zone you live in Sony took the wraps off their new PSP PSP too called n GP which stands for next generation portable presumably it just can be called the PSP 2 let's go ahead and run through all the facts and talk about them and analyze what you guys can expect to the next generation portable console all right so first I'm going to run through all the facts and tell you what its gonna do and then let's talk about it cuz there's a lot of things to actually discuss with it so it's got a very similar design to the current generation PSP and not the bastard child PSP go this is the actual PSP the two thousand three thousand five thousand nine thousand the one that's long and oval it looks very very very similar it does have front and rear facing cameras and I should say that specs were a little light this guy's not getting released until holidays 2011 so Sony was just sort of nebulously talking about it it's got a screen resolution on a 5-inch o le d-- capacitive touchscreen display of 960 by 540 4 which puts that at about four times the resolution of the current PSP so super high resolution things will look crisp OLEDs screens are awesome blacks you're gonna look really black colors you're going to look bright and vibrant and pop out right at you now them 3d but they look quite good and a new touchscreen interface we'll talk about in just a minute on the back of it it's got two rear touch panels for extra navigation and extra buttoning so you actually be able to do some navigation with games on the back it depends how the developers use that we'll talk about that in a minute as well 3G and Wi-Fi capable also I'm gonna pop in a SIM card I don't expect this to be released on a carrier although who knows what carrier might subsidize 3G they showed it with a SIM card but presumably there could be maybe an LTE version or a CDMA version that might not use a SIM card so that's kind of interesting maybe carriers are going to get in to the gaming business maybe they'll be some sort of billing system where you can just bill your carrier directly if you want to download some games I'm speaking of games those games are not going to be played on um DS anymore all of your um DS are now obsolete so the hundreds and $100 that Sony had you buy for the proprietary format no longer works I need to buy a new proprietary format it's going to be flash card media looks pretty much like an SD card a little bit strangely designed basically it is an SD card so what are you gonna do with all your old UMD disks well me you can stack them and use them as coasters for tiny little coffee cups if you want to play those games you're going after you download them again and somebody hasn't said it there's gonna be any system to offer free downloads of those games but I would probably guess forget to pay for some of those games again so not awesome it's not going to be backwards compatible with your old titles so that's also got a six axis controllers in a gyroscope meaning you can move it and they'll change perspectives this is not me driving cars that need holding a PSP and moving around so they'll have all those touch controls and be able to utilize motion for controls of the games again in the hands of the developers it's going to have a new UI called live area which is gonna take event a touch screen essentially it's a super invasive social networking Ike if you want it to we can pull down features to tell you where you are at every single minute what you're playing what your scores are essentially let everybody know what you're doing it'll do everything to tell all your friends sort of letting them know you're in the shower and if you tell it to do that it might actually do that as well so I'm gonna keep that in mind as far as all that sort of pervasive stuff goes not necessary the biggest fan but it is nice to see a capacitive touchscreen utilized on the new PSP presumably you'll be able to use that as well for some browsing action five-minute screen is really nice this may serve sort of as a tablet functionality as well you know five inches is really sort of a not too big not too small I'm not really gonna throw it in your pocket but you don't need a duffel bag to carry it around sighs I might be able to get some of your tablet action on there as well against when you launching in the holidays 2011 no pricing were released nor any hardware specs up 'its or further hardware specs but sony is claimed and this is a big claim that somebody gets powerful as a ps3 mm-hmm that sounds a little fishy but who knows that claims gonna have a revolutionary new mobile processor Sony can come through on that you know it's gonna be absolutely tremendous it may perhaps you know redefine gaming I'm really positioned Sony again as the mobile graphics leader comes to gaming and the Nintendo 3ds is more of the I guess niche casual gaming market certainly the Wii is achieved vast market penetration but there really is that same segmentation of the market that we saw with the wean the ps3 with casual gamers and hardcore gamers we're gonna see that as well at the 3ds and the PSP - or NGP or ever PSP go to whatever they decide to call it I are gonna sort of see that same schism which is kind of interesting one of the cool ways that you can use the PSP to those back touch panels and gets gonna be a lot of fun actually when you use the device if you ever use a PSP your fingers sort of sit there if I hang the trigger so that's another dimension of control obviously in first-person shooters it would be great we to sort of move around you also can be able to do that via two new analog sticks so you can actually have full control over the guys as well which are kind of nice for navigation so here's the interesting thing about the PSP 2 or NGP it's not launching for about another 10 11 months presumably around that timeframe so you have to sort of wonder what the markets gonna look like in 11 months this thing launched today it'd be an absolutely killer and a beast and a bear but looking at 11 months from now the 3ds has already been out for eight nine months if she presumably loved you but looking for these games are going to want to pick up a 3ds to get sort of what's at least right now the most up-to-date mobile gaming also what's going to happen to the current PSP line you assume sales of that are gonna go straight on down and as you're going to be a customer backlash because of the lack of um DS that sounds bad but uh you know you're gonna be upset that you spent so much money on back paddle in a games that you can no longer use you know I guess that sort of part of the generational evolution of consoles and I guess mobile would be considered a console but it's definitely discouraging to these many many diehard PSP fans out there so I'm really curious what you guys have to say are you excited about the PSP - are you not excited eleven months is a long time from now we'll have presumably the iPhone 5 in hand in six of probably circulating at that point we'll probably have the Nexus Google MJ you know might be out you know there's gonna be a lot of mobile technology out and a lot of platforms that are really capable with mobile gaming you know we may be very well in the heat of Tegra 3 you know it was really fast dual-core processors that might be able to put the PSP to get a little bit of competition as far as gaming prowess goes so it's gonna be very interesting to see how the marketing ball telemark involves over the course of the year personally I'm excited about the PSP 2 or MGP I can't wait get my hands on it and see if it really does define mobile gaming but I'm also very curious to see how the market evolves over that period of time so I'm John Breton driven TechnoBuffalo and I will see you in the next video we should be checked out TechnoBuffalo for all your tech news and for 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