Well, at last: For months, rumors were drifting on a new portable game console from Sony through the net. Now the company has announced the device at last - for the holiday season. What could really bring the Group forward, but it was another message. Tokyo - Sony will win back with a new mobile high performance console and the opening of Playstation games for Google's Android operating system lost ground in the gaming market.
The new Playstation Portable 2 comes under the code name NGP (Next Generation Portable Entertainment System) at the end of this year on the market, Sony had announced on Thursday in Tokyo. The oval-shaped device has a five-inch, touch-sensitive OLED screen, an additional multi-touch pad on the back of the console, motion sensors, and one camera on both sides.
This allows users to interactively play with characters in 3-D-like manner. The price of the NGP is not yet clear. There are also two new analog control knobs, as they love a lot of gamers. The combination of touch-screen, analog control buttons and the touchpad on the back is open, according to Sony game developers new possibilities of the game controller.
Thus, the virtual game space let by finger pressure on the rear of the arch as desired. Climbing movements of a figure can be shown to be realistic with the touchpad. Games in 3D supports the console, however. For the distribution of games via retail Sony has developed a new memory card format.
The new type of card based on flash memory chips will not be an pure read-only disk. Instead, it is also possible to store the games software and accessories matching scores to the games memory card itself. Moreover, it should be possible to download games via Internet on the console. A connection to the Web should be able to make the PSP 2 via UMTS or WLAN.
In conjunction with Sony's online service PlayStation Network will be games that users play so far on a PlayStation at home, can also play on the road by the scores online compares. Also, location-based services should be utilized. It would be now on the software developers to exploit the capabilities of the console, "said Kazuo Hirai, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, told journalists.
From the development of software titles Sony is ultimately dependent on the start of sales. No atypical phenomenon, because the success of a game console depends largely on the games offered software. For Microsoft X-Box 360 is about the game called "Halo" as irreplaceable. Millions of potential Playstation androids same time opens the electronics giant in the mobile games market for other platforms.
In addition to their own cell phones and smartphones soon Tablet PC based on Android to be compatible with PlayStation content, it said. The games will be offered on the new "PlayStation Suite" and run on the open operating system from Google. This opens up the Japanese company a potentially multi-billion dollar market.
That you can market very successful games for smartphones and media players, Apple with the iPhone and iPod touch, makes the procedure. For the supply of Android phones more attractive game software, however, is not yet clear. This Android is in the process becoming the most popular by far the operating system for smartphones.
If there's more? With this combination of 2 and Playstation PSP Games for Android phones Sony could create two of his worst problems of the world. On the one scored in mobile consoles to date, especially the Japanese rival Nintendo with its DS console. Last but Nintendo also suffered under the fierce competition.
In the first nine months of 31 March fiscal year, the company earned dramatically less than last year. Following a profit decline of 74 percent of Nintendo stopped short on Thursday its forecast for the current quarter. In addition, last made smartphones, and especially the iPhone, PSP, Sony competitors.
Through the "Playstation Suite", the Group could then make up for lost ground. With this system, Sony could not only reach more users around the world, but also opens a new market for game developers. According to unconfirmed media reports, Sony has also a "Playstation" - Phone in the quiver.
The company trying to introduce the game of the Sony Ericsson brand mobile phone in February, it was said - probably on the mobile phone Mobile World Congress trade fair, on 14 February in Barcelona begins.
The new Playstation Portable 2 comes under the code name NGP (Next Generation Portable Entertainment System) at the end of this year on the market, Sony had announced on Thursday in Tokyo. The oval-shaped device has a five-inch, touch-sensitive OLED screen, an additional multi-touch pad on the back of the console, motion sensors, and one camera on both sides.
This allows users to interactively play with characters in 3-D-like manner. The price of the NGP is not yet clear. There are also two new analog control knobs, as they love a lot of gamers. The combination of touch-screen, analog control buttons and the touchpad on the back is open, according to Sony game developers new possibilities of the game controller.
Thus, the virtual game space let by finger pressure on the rear of the arch as desired. Climbing movements of a figure can be shown to be realistic with the touchpad. Games in 3D supports the console, however. For the distribution of games via retail Sony has developed a new memory card format.
The new type of card based on flash memory chips will not be an pure read-only disk. Instead, it is also possible to store the games software and accessories matching scores to the games memory card itself. Moreover, it should be possible to download games via Internet on the console. A connection to the Web should be able to make the PSP 2 via UMTS or WLAN.
In conjunction with Sony's online service PlayStation Network will be games that users play so far on a PlayStation at home, can also play on the road by the scores online compares. Also, location-based services should be utilized. It would be now on the software developers to exploit the capabilities of the console, "said Kazuo Hirai, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, told journalists.
From the development of software titles Sony is ultimately dependent on the start of sales. No atypical phenomenon, because the success of a game console depends largely on the games offered software. For Microsoft X-Box 360 is about the game called "Halo" as irreplaceable. Millions of potential Playstation androids same time opens the electronics giant in the mobile games market for other platforms.
In addition to their own cell phones and smartphones soon Tablet PC based on Android to be compatible with PlayStation content, it said. The games will be offered on the new "PlayStation Suite" and run on the open operating system from Google. This opens up the Japanese company a potentially multi-billion dollar market.
That you can market very successful games for smartphones and media players, Apple with the iPhone and iPod touch, makes the procedure. For the supply of Android phones more attractive game software, however, is not yet clear. This Android is in the process becoming the most popular by far the operating system for smartphones.
If there's more? With this combination of 2 and Playstation PSP Games for Android phones Sony could create two of his worst problems of the world. On the one scored in mobile consoles to date, especially the Japanese rival Nintendo with its DS console. Last but Nintendo also suffered under the fierce competition.
In the first nine months of 31 March fiscal year, the company earned dramatically less than last year. Following a profit decline of 74 percent of Nintendo stopped short on Thursday its forecast for the current quarter. In addition, last made smartphones, and especially the iPhone, PSP, Sony competitors.
Through the "Playstation Suite", the Group could then make up for lost ground. With this system, Sony could not only reach more users around the world, but also opens a new market for game developers. According to unconfirmed media reports, Sony has also a "Playstation" - Phone in the quiver.
The company trying to introduce the game of the Sony Ericsson brand mobile phone in February, it was said - probably on the mobile phone Mobile World Congress trade fair, on 14 February in Barcelona begins.
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