Sony’s PSP2 Revealed Publicly, Coming This Holiday 2011

Sony has just shown off its ‘PSP2’ at the PlayStation Meeting event in Japan, which is codenamed as NGP (Next Generation Portable).

It has Dual analogue sticks, Six Axis controls, Front and rear cameras, A five inch OLED screen capable of displaying 16 million colours and the Six Axis motion control capability, Touch pad on the front and rear, Flash memory, 3G and wifi.

Official tech specs:

The system itself consists a rather beefy and heavy stats of technical specifications. Check them out below –

CPU

ARM CortexTM-A9 core (4 core)

GPU

SGX543MP4+

External Dimensions

Approx. 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth) (tentative, excludes largest projection)

Screen

5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colors, OLED

(Touch screen)

Multi-touch screen (capacitive type)

Rear touch pad

Multi-touch pad (capacitive type)

Cameras

Front camera, Rear camera

Sound

Built-in stereo speakers

Built-in microphone

Sensors

Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), Three-axis electronic compass

Location

Built-in GPS

Wi-Fi location service support

Keys / Switches

PS button

Power button

Directional buttons (Up/Down/Right/Left)

Action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square)

Shoulder buttons (Right/Left)

Right stick, Left stick

START button, SELECT button

Volume buttons (+/-)

Wireless communications

Mobile network connectivity (3G)

IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n = 1×1)(Wi-Fi) (Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode)

Bluetooth 2.1+EDR ?A2DP/AVRCP/HSP?

List of third party pblishers and developers:

They have also unveiled a list of third party publishers and developers that have signed up to work on the new handheld.

As expected, all of the biggest names are on board, including Sega, Square Enix, Capcom, Namco Bandai, Konami and Tecmo Koei, as well as developers such as CyberConnect2, FromSoftware and Rockstar Games.

Here’s the full, extensive list –

Japan

* Acquire
* Alvion
* AQ Interactive
* Arc System Works
* Arika
* Artdink Corporation
* ASCII Media Works
* Capcom
* Chun Soft
* Codemasters Software Company
* Crafts & Meister
* CyberConnect2
* D3 Publisher
* Dimps Corporation
* Edia
* Enterbrain
* FromSoftware
* Gameloft
* Genki
* Grasshopper Manufacture
* GungHo Online Entertainment
* Gust
* Hamster Corporation
* Hudson Soft
* Idea FActory
* Index Corporation (Atlus)
* Irem Software Engineering
* Kadokawa Games
* Kadokawa Shoten Publishing
* Konami Digital Entertainment
* Level-5
* Marvelous Entertainment
* media5 Corporation
* Namco Bandai Games
* Nihon Falcom Corporation
* Nippon Ichi Software
* Now Production
* Q Entertainment
* Sega
* SNK Playmore
* Spike
* Square Enix
* SystemSoft Alpha
* Tecmo Koei Game
* Tomy Company
* Tose
* Ubisoft
* Yuke’s

North America

* Activision
* Capybara Games
* Demiurge Studios
* Epic Games
* Far Sight Studios
* Frima
* High Voltage Software
* Kung Fu Factory
* Paramount Digital Entertainment
* PopCap Games
* Powerhead Games
* Trendy Entertainment
* Ubisoft
* Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
* 2K Games
* 2K Sport

Europe

* Avalanche Studios
* Climax Studios
* Codemasters Software Company
* Eurocom Developments
* Eutechnyx
* Exient
* Firemint
* Gameloft
* Gusto Games
* Home Entertainment Suppliers
* Impromptu Software
* Rebellion
* Rockstar Games
* Sidhe Interactive
* Sumo Digital
* Team 17 Software
* Ubisoft Entertainment
* Zen Studios

Features and support for trophies and apps:

According to the video released by Sony that was shown at the press conference during the official revelation of the PSP2 or it’s codename NGP, it’s claimed that the system is to support some amazing new features, trophies, apps and some social features like messaging.

Though the video doesn’t actually show the PSP2 – or NGP as it’s codenamed, but it does showcase a few features and some fancy graphics pointed to Trophies on the handheld as well as apps (a map app in particular) and messaging.

Check it out below:

Sony has confirmed that it will be released this holiday 2011.