Sony Shows Off Inheritor To PSP

Sony has denounced its new handheld games console the PSP 2.

At a special eventuality in Tokyo, firm bosses suggested what they are strictly mission the NGP or Next Generation Portable.

There were no sum on how sufficient it is expected to cost but it is expected to be out someday towards the finish of 2011.

The NGP is being launched in to an increasingly aggressive marketplace with Nintendo's 3DS out shortly and a bang in mobile gaming on smartphones.

The device boasts a 5-inch OLED hold shade screen together with Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity to capacitate people to download games and other content.

The oval pattern (182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm) moreover features a back row touchpad to manage specific activities and a suit sensor.

There is a front and back camera too in addition to the normal navigation buttons and, is to initial time, twin equivalent term sticks.

Executives at Sony hope the new features will be great enough to win over gamers.

Its predecessor, the PSP, was launched in 2004 and to date has sole 65 million units.

But that is reduction than half the number of sales of Nintendo's DS (136 million).

Nintendo are moreover rising the world's initial 3D handheld games console in March, the 3DS.

The 3DS has generated a outrageous amount of hype, partly since users do not need special eyeglasses is to 3D calm to work.

Meanwhile smartphones are moreover fuelling a bang in mobile gaming leaving a few experts wondering either specific handheld games consoles are apropos redundant.

A renouned pretension similar to Angry Birds expenses a fragment of the cost of console games to rise and is moreover cheaper for customers to buy.

Yet with around 40 million downloads it has raked in millions of pounds for developers Rovio.

However, Sony is more than wakeful of the future of mobile gaming.

The heavily rumoured PlayStation phone is expected to be denounced at next month's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

It moreover voiced its new PlayStation Suite focus for Google Android phones at the Tokyo conference.

Out after that this year, that will let users run video games with the same high quality of the original PlayStation and be matching with the NGP.

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