Thursday, January 27, 2011

PS, Sony tries again comes Next Generation Portable

Sony tries again and from Tokyo presents its new PlayStation Portable, code-named Next Generation Portable (NGP), heir to a console that since 2004 has been sold in more than 65 million units. We'll see in stores by Christmas 2011, with its beautiful OLED touch screen 5 inch (960 by 544 pixels), a powerful ARM processor core four, wi-fi, GPS, 3G, two integrated cameras and price still to be define (guarantee low, I wonder if it really well).

Use as support flash memory cards, which replace the Universal Media Disc (UMD), a sort of mini DVDs that Sony hoped to impose as a standard but that has proved to be completely bankrupt. NGP on video games you buy in stores but also online, as was the case with the PSP Go Out in 2009, at a ridiculously high price (250 euro), this version of the half had left the Umd for betting on the symbiosis with the PlayStation Network, the Web channel for all Sony console where in addition to being able to play with others, you can buy games, movies and music.

It 's the future of distribution, Sony supports it for years, which in this case has a present with fewer than 68 million users have downloaded since 2006, nearly a billion and a half of paid and free content. Not surprisingly, in addition to wi-fi, the Next Generation Portable is the 3G connection, so that we can always connect from anywhere.

In short, a machine that link almost everything on the computing power, distribution via the Web, the quality of the graphics and the usual warhorses like Sony's Killzone, Little Big Planet, Metal Gear Solid, Uncharted. Unlike what was done by Nintendo, with the 3Ds (to be released in late March), has chosen the path of the three dimensions can be enjoyed without glasses.

I wonder if Sony just to maintain its market share in an increasingly more difficult as that of mobile devices. According to the latest data AESVI (the association of publishers of video games in Italy), as it is a field that has lost 20.3%. And who knows if it will be enough to stem the hemorrhage of players seduced by the growing popularity of smartphones, now in effect of pocket console.

And so, giving a shot at the rim and a barrel, Tokyo also announced the birth of PlayStation Suite (Suite Ps). Platform for video games for the Android world eerily reminiscent of the latest evolution of Nokia N-Gage, one of the many missteps that the Finnish giant has made in recent years.

In the case of the PlayStation Suite is a sort of certification and distribution of content via the PlayStation Store for all phones that use the Google operating system, starting with the PlayStation Phone, Sony Ericsson will present in mid-February. But they are two worlds that are unlikely to live, starting price, as Android Market video games are already expensive and small sums of money.

And probably the people willing to spend to play or replay Tomb Raider mobile at the end are not that many. As history shows precisely the N-Gage.

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