Oh Hai PSP2
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?Sony revealed its second next-gen portable gaming system, what you and I and everyone will be calling the PSP2, but which Sony is calling the NGP (as in, Next-Gen Portable, I shit you not) for the time being because they’re Sony and ridiculous like that. Kotaku has all the specs, but I can give you the good stuff:
? Two analog sticks
? A touch-sensitive screen
? It’s a Sixaxis, meaning it recognizes its movement and tilt and speed and what-not
? Cameras in the front and back
? No UMD bullshit (finally)
? It ran Metal Gear Solid 4, so it’s significantly closer in power to a PS3 than a PS2
? There will be an Uncharted game for it
It won’t be out in Japan until winter, so it’ll probably hit America in 2012. I can’t find a price mentioned for it, but if Nintendo’s charging $250 for the 3DS, then I feel like Sony has to charge at least $300 for NGP, if only to remind people that it’s more technologically advanced. Of course, they could charge $400 for it, too — the damn thing’s pretty much a mini-PS3.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.