Sony shows off the PSP2

Ok, so technically they referred to it as the "NGP", or Next-generation Playstation Portable (wouldn't that be NGPP?). But name aside, this little machine looks like a dream when going over the specs sheet:

Take a nice close look at that. This baby is packing a quad-core Cortex A9 CPU AND a quad-core PowerVR GPU! There's never been a handheld packing this much pure horsepower, and you have to wonder just what kind of battery life they will be able to squeeze out of it. Sony did announce that games will be on "new media", so ditching UMD like on the PSPGo will help some with battery life.

The system will have the a 5-inch touchscreen OLED display with 960x544 resolution, 4-way directional buttons, the standard Playstation 4 action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square), 2 shoulder buttons, dual analog sticks (not "nubs" like on the original PSP), multi-touch pad on the back of the system, front and rear cameras, GPS, Wifi, 3G, bluetooth, gyroscope, accelerometer and compass! There's really nothing that you could wish they would have in there that isn't currently on the spec sheet.

Sony showed demos of future games including Killzone, Resistance, Little Big Planet and Uncharted. They also showed off a cutscene from MGS4 rendered in real-time on the PSP2. The code was pulled directly from the PS3 version (no optimizations done at all) and ran at 20fps.

No pricing was discussed, but Sony said it will be available this holiday season. This is very exciting, and we at Techphules cannot wait to hopefully get some hands-on time with this device at E3 this June.