Well, there won’t be much the PSP2 can’t do if the latest report from Japanese newspaper Nikkei is accurate. The paper is reporting (via Andriasang) that the handheld will ship with 3G support in addition to basic wireless LAN connection capabilities, allowing for, I assume, digital market browsing and online gaming on-the-go wherever a 3G provider has coverage. It’s also reporting that the PSP2 will ship with a “larger than normal” OLED touch screen and a processor which will handle high-resolution visuals.

In Japan, Nikkei believes 3G will be provided by NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese phone, video, and mail provider who, in addition to offering 3G, also broadcasts advanced earthquake warnings. It also has a popular mushroom mascot, who is the hero in Boing! Docomodake DS, apparently.

Well, there won’t be much the PSP2 can’t do if the latest report from Japanese newspaper Nikkei is accurate. The paper is reporting (via Andriasang) that the handheld will ship with 3G support in addition to basic wireless LAN connection capabilities, allowing for, I assume, digital market browsing and online gaming on-the-go wherever a 3G provider has coverage. It’s also reporting that the PSP2 will ship with a “larger than normal” OLED touch screen and a processor which will handle high-resolution visuals.

In Japan, Nikkei believes 3G will be provided by NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese phone, video, and mail provider who, in addition to offering 3G, also broadcasts advanced earthquake warnings. It also has a popular mushroom mascot, who is the hero in Boing! Docomodake DS, apparently.

awesome

Dual analog or bust.

I'm ready for another PSP. So this is cool.

I can think of some decent non-intensive uses for 3G support, but overall none of this sounds particularly interesting.
 
Except that OLEDs are the future. THE FUUUUUTUUUUUUUURE!

Boing! Docomodake DS is probably the single most stereotypical Japanese game title I've ever heard.

I heard it just had a D-Pad and two buttons labeled A and B. True?

Give me dual analogs and I'll be sold. Rumors and speculation say it's supposed to be pretty goddamn powerful - a working PS2 emulator might be asking a little much, but a man can dream.

Time to get some bets down. I'm calling 2 months before custom firmware. 

" Time to get some bets down. I'm calling 2 months before custom firmware.  "

I wouldnt really want to pay a monthly fee for 3G...

So does this mean that the PSP2 and the PSP Phone are the same thing?  Was the PSP Phone thing ever debunked or confirmed?  I really can't imagine that they'll release a PSP Phone in addition to a PSP2 with 3G.

I'm anxious to see how this will pan out. The best case scenario I suppose would be that this thing actually produces visuals on par with the ps3 (given lower resolution). Somehow I doubt it though given all of the gimmicks they're trying to pull with it like a touch screen and touch pad on the back. I wish they would focus on making games that control precisely and not games that are fun only in concept.

Touch screen is pretty cool, and the 3G will appeal to the Asian market that play in public, but I really hope it has two analog sticks.

An OLED screen? no way in HELL. Those are absurdly expensive to make and if those were in mass production we would've heard something about it months ago! BUT, if it IS an OLED screen this PSP2 will cost upwards of 500 dollars :|

But will it have a UMD slot?

" But will it have a UMD slot? "

" Dual analog or bust. "

So it's an iPad now? 

The article didn't mention that the PSP2 also folds into a miniature George Foreman grill for convenient low-fat portable hamburger making.

I heard that it will also cure cancer.

Dual skus - 3g and 3g-less/wifi only.  Please.

I may be alone here, but I don't care about this shit. I just want a powerful machine what will play great games on the go, with modern controls.

Yeah that's all good and all but will it be able to give blowjobs or print money for me like the wii does?

I can see they're taking the "It only does everything" motto to heart.

After hearing that the 3DS will only have 5-6 hours of battery life MAX i wonder how much this thing will have...

It sounds cool but it also sounds more and more like something I don't really want.

sony definitely doesn't owe me shit, but they're going to have to prove themselves this time around after almost abandoning the handheld through the first iteration.  I'm getting the 3ds, since the ds was what it was, a great handheld.  The psp was pretty good, but it felt like it was never their for their software side.  

Less than $300 and the 3DS is SUNK!

and if I was rich I'd buy it.  It sounds awesome but I already dumped a huge amount of money on an iPhone 4, so I'm not really looking for a new gaming handheld.

" Dual analog or bust. "

Does anybody care? At all?

it will come with everything but worthwhile games to play, would be my guess

The sad truth is that it'll get hacked (fairly quickly), people will steal games and it will fail unless they do something drastic to the firmware.

great, a bunch of stuff i dont want.

If the psp2 is at least competent enough to run ps2 games like psp does well enough with ps1, I am definitely getting one. Supposing that Sony would put up a ps2 store, just think of that huge great catalog of ps2 games. This got me wondering after playing persona 3 portable on the psp. If they can bring over persona 4 close to its originality, then I am that much more excited.

Fuck your milk!

" @MrKlorox said:

" Dual analog or bust. "

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im excited. sony has learned a lot from the psp, i hope. im leaving for the AF soon so i want something to play with while im away and on lights of airplanes

as long as the psp2 doesn't cost twice as much as the 3ds, i think we'll see a bit more of a fight on our hands in the hand-held market.

The ps2 super super super slim?