Andronicus said:
Wow [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/104054-Rumor-PSP2-Rocking-Hands-By-Holiday-2011], new [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/92954-Rumored-PSP2-Will-Boast-Powerful-Quad-Core-GPU] PSP [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/90772-New-PSP2-Rumors-Suggest-Touchscreen]? This [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103829-Rumor-Sony-Gearing-Up-for-PSP2-Launch] news [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/102892-Rumor-PSP-2-Features-Reverse-Touch-Screen-Controls] comes [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107195-Japanese-Newspaper-Claims-3G-Support-for-PSP2] as [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/106904-Rumor-PSP2-Could-Hit-Stores-in-Time-For-Halloween] a [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105958-Source-Compares-PSP2-to-Portable-PS3] complete [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105720-Sony-Unleashes-Deluge-of-Handheld-Touchscreen-Patents] shock [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105385-Rumor-PSP2-Images-Hit-the-Streets] to [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103543-Mortal-Kombat-Dev-Reveals-Existence-of-PSP-2] me [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/101700-Sony-Nixes-3D-For-Next-PSP].
Pshaw, whatchyoutalkinaboutwillis? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCrjLVSapII&feature=related]
Tom Phoenix said:
Oh well, to Sony's credit, at least they were smart enough to drop the awkward UMDs, although that isn't going to help them much at this point...If anything, the lack of backwards compatibility with the PSP library is just going to hurt them even more.
Remember, by and large, Sony is a
tech company, they are not exclusively a game company, of course they're going to push for technological innovations, whether one considers them "smart" or otherwise. From the sound of the specs, and the release schedule, I think that Sony has put a bit much in this project and are probably going to handle this smarter than the PSPGo. And backwards compatibility has neither been confirmed nor denied, unless you can provide links or something (The USB stick thing could be used for transfers and whatnot).
But, as for me, while it does look like an interesting piece of tech, I doubt I will buy it. I am not a handheld gamer, as evident by me playing my DS only once a year when I go on the annual family vacation. I'm afraid that I'll be sucked in to an impulse buy like I did with my Wii and DS, but I will keep it open as an option as, to be quite honest, I do prefer Sony's products (I was a more flame-buoyant fanboy back in the day, still am sort of
)