Next Generation Portable - A breakthrough in handheld gaming

     The upcoming NGP aka PSP2 is one of the most awaited handheld gadgets which will be out before the end of 2011. Sony claims that it can compete with the Playstation 3. Is this true? We don't know yet. Why don't you check out its uber cool features first by scrolling down below.



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Sony's NGP (for more images, click here)

• 5 inch OLED with a touchscreen feature
• Secondary touchpad around the back
• Front and rear cameras
• Built-in microphone
• 3G
• Bluetooth capability
• Wi-fi support
• Dual analog sticks
• Sixaxis motion sensing technology
• Augmented Reality (AR)  feature
• Plays NGM (New Game Media)
• NVG card - a new proprietary flash card format, rather than on Universal Media Discs (UMDs)
• Near -  A program which detects other NGP users in your immediate vicinity shows you their PlayStation Network ID information, their Trophies, library of games, and scores.
• LiveArea - A new interface for Playstation, not like the XMB in PSP and PS3 consoles.
• PS1, PS2 (hopefully), and PSP games compatible
• For the list of games for the NGP, go here.

Rear touchpads (left and right) and a rear camera (top center)

For those who want to know about the technical features of NGP, here it is compliments to gamepro :

• Operates with a ARM Cortex-A9 4 core CPU
• Approximately 182.0mm width x 18.6mm height x 83.5mm depth (the original PSP is around 170mm x 74mm x 23mm)
• 5 inch/16:9 OLED multi touch-screen display, at 960px x 544px (the original PSP has a 4.3/16:9 TFT LCD display, at 480px x 272px)
• Multi touch-pad on the device's rear
• Built in microphone, with dual front/rear cameras
• Six-Axis motion sensing technology, gyroscope, accelerometer, electronic compass
• Built-in GPS system, Wi-Fi location service support
• Face buttons, shoulder buttons, PlayStation button, directional pad, and dual analog sticks(emphasis on the "sticks" -- these aren't nubs)
• 3G mobile network connectivity, IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR compatibility
• New flash memory based game media (the PSP uses Universal Media Discs -- or UMDs)

     You want to buy it already right? For the pricing, currently there is no official price. Matt Peckham from PCWorld predicts it is around PHP12,960 - PHP15,120 ($300-$350). It is kind of cheap for a monster like this one huh?

     So this is it guys, for the latest official updates on this baby, subscribe with your email address on http://us.playstation.com/ngp/

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 Thanks to my sources : Playstation, Wikipedia, Gamepro, G4TV