PSP2 Is Real, 'Pretty Powerful' And In Developers' Hands

In an PAX 2010 interview about the upcoming Mortal Kombat reboot, Executive Producer Shaun Himmerick let slip the existence of a PSP2 development unit at Netherrealm Studios.

IndustryGamers asked about the possibility of a version of Mortal Kombat on the current PSP or the upcoming 3DS, and Himmerick replied:

[donniebaseball]

It's about time. I just wish Sony had used TGS to unveil the thing already. They need to do it soon before 3DS really grabs the spotlight next year.

[8-bit]

Agreed +1

@below, Yeah it is. I just might have to pick up both. The 3DS showed off some awesome looking games and I loved my PSP although it seriously needs updated hardware and a second analog.

[FishCake9T4]

Its going to be an epic battle between the 3DS and PSP2.

[sikbeta]

Finally... I want PSP2 NOW!!!

[AtatakaiSamurai]

something I don't like about the news i've been seeing from TGS. way too many behind the scenes showings.

[Blaine]

And a lot of would-be good news turned sour.

New Devil May Cry game? Sweet! Actually... No, Ninja Theory fucked up this good news.

New game for fans of Demon's Souls? Well, it's published by Namco/Bandai (they produce awesome games, right?...) and it's multi-plat.

Etc... so far.

[Rainstorm81]

It needs to have dual analogs or it won further handheld gaming to where it needs to go......Ive said it before a handheld killzone or cod with dual analogs and multiplayer....and it will sell

[zen0]

I'm sold if it has dual analog.

[nix]

Dual analog plus it should be able to make calls, take pics etc etc..

[ReservoirDog316]

Probably unveiled next E3.

I guess I should start saving now...

Just found a nickel.

+ $0.05 towards PSP2

[Marquis_de_Sade]

I don't really see a problem with Demon's Souls going multi platform, it's hardly the best looking game around and I'm sure even the 360 could handle the first.

[ThanatosDMC]

I hope it has 3G so we can be online at all times on the psn, and if it's powerful enough, portable MAG!

[ConanOBrien]

The question is, what's the point of it? Will it just be a "better" PSP, like faster, higher rez, that sort of thing, but mostly the same basic idea?

[moparful99]

I was flipping through the new game informer today and they, without reservation, claimed that the psp2 has a built in mobile phone operating system like the android platform thanks to a partnership with ericsson. We all know that ericsson is sony's go to for mobile phones, this sounds legit... If sony makes the psp2 with iphone esque touch screen and cell phone functionality count me in.. I will sign a 5 year contract right now!

[Nihilism]

No it won't one sided fight are never fun to watch, PSP2 will be washed away by 3DS, just like PSP was by DS...sony marketing is just pathetic.

[Star51]

i mean sure the 3DS is strong competition, but maybe sony knows something we don't...like whether or not the 3DS is really releasing this year. If it's not, they have months to hype the new PSP. If the 3DS does launch this year and there's no specs or pics from sony...i'll be worried.

[jellybalboa]

BLUE RAY UMD,

[Kain81]

i thought Sony would show us the PSP2 @TGS...

[St0]

Maybe they will

[Etseix]

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[ABizzel1]

It's probably not ready, and won't launch in Japan until holiday 2011 March 2012 in the rest of the world.

Expect to hear about it at CES or E3.

[N4g_null]

I betting they have the emulator for the psp2 or a tegra. I don't know any one with this kit yet and this is a suprise yet I don't think they have the offical psp2 since it's not ready. The power jump will eat your batteries like drug addicts. Plus what can they do to one up the 3ds. True 3d would be nice.

[LinuxGuru]

A dual-core 1GHz Tegra chip was just released...I'm willing to bet something similar will be in the PSP2

[jellybalboa]

i have advertised my psp on ebay, ghost of sparta can wait, i,ll keep the money on the side until it releases, yes i know it may be well late into 2011. i am also putting my 360 on ebay coz i have only turned it on thrice since purchase 20/8/09.

[FragGen]

Are you seriously so poor that you can't afford to save $200 for a product that likely won't be available for 12months or more? That's less than $20 a month. You need to log off N4G and get a job.

Ghost of Sparta will PWN!

[JLeVRT]

Youre gonna need to sell your house if the PSP2 is as good as it sounds...

[moparful99]

If it has cell phone functionality expect it to have an exclusive carrier and a contract deal.. 99 dollars with a 2 year contract is my bet.. Look for it to be a sprint or tmobile contract as well.. Any takers??

[xAlmostPro]

agree'd they dont want the psp2 to go down the route of the ps3 at launch because they let a competitor release there console a year before.. 3ds looks like a pretty powerful device..

although did that just say they had psp2 running at 60fps?.. thats impressive right? xD

[f789790]

Well anything can run a game at 60fps if the quality is low enough for the hardware to handle.

[Millah]

Ridge Racer for PSP ran at 60fps. So whats your point? Sonic Adventure ran at 60fps on Dreamcast too. Framerate is meaningless if you don't know the quality of the visuals.

Not that the visuals won't be impressive or anything :P. I'm guessing this thing will have visuals slightly below 360, and probably better than 3DS.

[BrianB]

3DS is heading for a great start and it hasn't even been released yet, psp2 however is doomed before release, if sony doesnt develop a strong software lineup and release it at a reasonable price

[moparful99]

It's funny you mention price, there is no way that nintendo can release the 3ds for under 200.. I'm willing to bet the 3ds will sell at 239 us dollars... Are you willing to pay that much? I know I wont pay that much for a bunch of casual titles and 5 new versions of the same old pokemon.. Not even kid icarus is worth that much.. At least the psp has multimedia functionality...

[silvacrest]

i think your probably right, at first i thought the PSP2 and PSPhone were two different handhelds but now im not sure

[vhero]

Seems Sony don't want anybody to know what they got planned.

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

Please be real man, I never bought a PSP for several reasons but the PSP2 for sure will be a day 1 for me.

This is flippin BIG news, Sony make it happen!

[VINNIEPAZ]

What reasons?

[Biggest]

His comment makes no sense. He's stoked for a new system for no reason at all, but has avoided buying a current system for years because of several reasons. Maybe he doesn't like any game from any genre. There are too many of every genre on the current PSP.

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

@VINNIEPAZ
1) Wack graphics.
2) Too many versions.
etc etc...

@Above

Are you a gay sissy Emo? why do I need to tell you all of my reasons? I never bought the PSP for the same reasons so many other people didn't.

You sound insecure.

[BannedForNineYears]

Wack graphics?
What's a wack?
Have you even played it first hand?
Or just saw videos of it on the internet? :P

Too many versions? How's that a bad thing?
v_v

PSP is an amazing handheld.

@Raz....I know what you mean about wishing you had more time......

[davidrx7]

i got my psp for 20$ at a yard sale . .

[raztad]

I'm actually enjoying the hell out of my PSP. I only wish to have more time and its game to be cheaper. Like $30 for big projects like GoW:GoS, VC2 and even less for smaller ones.

[UP]

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep is good to. It is the best in the entire series.

[moparful99]

I just pre ordered my ghost of sparta bundle which incidently also comes with chains of olympus the best psp game to date and I'm also picking up peace walker and birth by sleep.. Man I just realized that gran turismo 5 comes out november 2nd.. Ohh man how am I going to fit all of this gaming in with two jobs and school coming up???

[YoungKingDoran]

hahah... etc etc

[divideby0]

lets all hope its the handheld we really want vs PsP go..(what a joke for a followup to the PSP)

this next PSP is gonna be EXPENSIVE.... just like the Go was

[Stealth20k]

Its already be confirmed to have a physical medium

[xAlmostPro]

other than the price the go was/is a good device.. the psp is playstation portable, but never actually fit in pockets.. they made the go to be portable.. although the price point was and still is insane lol..

[DatNJDom81]

I admit its too expensive, but if u didnt own a psp (like me) and dont want to carry all those umds, then I dont see what the big deal is. I have 12 games on it already. FYI if u buy it at best buy for the 200 price, u get 3 free games. if u go on psstore, they have alot of the best pspgames that came out. and they are very cheap. 17 bucks for coo 10 bucks for syphon filter and 13 for the other one. the convinience is worth the price.

[newhumanbreed]

Sony is making their platforms too powerful. The competition is still in the dinosaur age with theirs.

[SkylineR]

Yet that dinosaur tech Is and will continue to crush anything PSP. ;) 135 million DS units so far... I'm sure the 3DS will carry that popularity over.

[moparful99]

The ONLY and I mean ONLY reason the ds sells like it does is for two reasons. Pokemon being the biggest and every snot nossed kid on the planet begs for every new nintendo handheld made.. Thats it, it holds no merit when it comes to quality gaming. I've yet to enjoy a game on the ds with scribblenauts being the exception... That game was clever and I really enjoyed it...

[FinalomegaS]

You talk as though you've played every 1000+ DS game, but only one sticks out :P

The DS didn't sell like that because of 1 million unit series but it has many and please remember that nintendo did advertise the thing strong to every age group especially women and older folks.

the 3DS is going to bring the power the core gamers want yet can still give those casual buyers what they want.

PSP2, funny how they have the dev kit for something that sony hasn't announced but they don't have the 3DS, just find that odd.

[Lord_Doggington]

pretty much this. how many holes can sony dig themselves into before the realize a powerful platform doesn't sell anything

[Kingdom Come]

A second Analogue Stick...
Glad to know it's in development and hope it receives new ip's and not just new spin-offs of console games like many Portable consoles get. The 3DS has proven the potential of the next generation of Portable gaming, lets hope the PSP2 can keep it up!

[AceofStaves]

Sony has an opportunity to make PSP2 something special, especially if it includes a second analogue stick.

[PatoJavier]

Maybe they're waiting for next year's E3. Anyhow, day 1 for me too. I love my psp (though I consider the DS being the best of both anyway)

[ShiNe-Box-]

Odd that they don't have a debug 3DS :/

[Kain81]

maybe they have something, that they are confident about, but sony should release the PSP2 ASAP...

[Matthew94]

i shant be getting it.

no doubt there will be 3 or 4 more hardware revisions and itll take a while for the good games to appear

3ds looks way better and is much higher on my list

[SoapShoes]

As with the DS, there'll be 3 or 4 more hardware revisions... and take a while for good games to appear so 3DS will follow in the DS's footsteps.

[LOOK_AT_THIS_I]

are you retarded or just that blind by fanboyism?

nothing exists of the psp2 yet (to the public) and the 3ds looks better? dumb.dumb.dumb,dumb.dummmmmbbb bb.

if this is legit and the guys at mk studios got their hands on it already dont you think other huge sony standout studios have this as well and are already working on titles and have been for a hot second? perhaps this time around they will copy apple in the aspect of doing a suprise announcement and launch shortly thereafter.
NO BUTTONS/2 ANALOGUE STICKS= NO BUY!!!!!!!

[f789790]

I'll be getting the first version they release. Stupid waste of money? Maybe a little but without first adopters there is no future for a system. I will also be hacking it as soon as possible. I will still buy games, I just want to put my ps2 collection on there.

[SexyPrawns]

Wow. How many "behind closed doors" rooms do they have in that place?!

Maybe TGS is one big game of hide n seek.

Kojima: Hey, Nomura! You're it! You gotta count now!
Nomura: What the frick? You'll just hide under a stupid box again!
Kojima: *snicker*

[Umbrella Corp]

LOL bubbles SexyPrawns you have made my day.

[milohighclub]

i really wish that the pic used for this article would be the model for psp2 then i would buy because thats well funky.

[maniac76]

if its launching in 11 then why wouldnt companies have one,dont they have to sign something so they dont let slip unless sony want to allow some gossip. anyway,we know its gonna be powerfull just by wot mobile phones can do now like apple and droids cpus,gpus. cant wait for both 3ds and psp2.

[-Gespenst-]

Man I suppose that guy could've been paraphrased, but what a dumbass. How could you let something slip so obliviously like that.

[cardgenius]

Cant wait....but it better have a damn Second Analog Nub!

[SpoonyRedMage]

I know it's a proper source and everything but I have a hard time believing that if a really powerful PSP2 was in the hands of developers that Kojima would be bothering with the 3DS. The same goes for people like the Resident Evil team and SE's Birth By Sleep team...

They'd be working on the PSP2 now.

[JLeVRT]

Theyre just not tellin us... and Im sure the PSP2 will get great launch titles... how does a new GTA sound?

[jay2]

Who said their NOT working on a PSP2?

[N4OGs]

I take my psp out in public but not my ds. Psp is so good at movies, music, and has those big console sized games with good graphics. KH bbS, GTA vice city stories, persona 3 portable, god of war, monster hunter, ps1, psn games, etc.

I had the dave chappel season 2 umd and its crazy hilarious. sony handhelds are just cooler and multi functional for public use and portability.

If they add trophies, second analog nub, longer battery life and touch screen then it will be perfect because they games will be there and so will the multimedia capabilities.

I hope it can be used as a camcorder as well because then it will totally own.

[Allowen]

I don't expect that the PSP2 will support UMD games frm the PSP .
But what I do expect is that games bought at the PSN for the PSP must work on the new PSP2 system.

If that happens then I will try to buy the PSP2 on day one.

BTW, hopeffully Sony will put a web browser that does work on the new PlayStation Portable 2 :)
Thanks Sony : )

[Zinc]

Whatever happens, I think both the PSP2 and the 3DS will be great additions to gaming. I'm really looking forward to seeing what comes of both platforms and what they both have to offer.

[SandWitch]

Faster, SONY, faster, we need PSP2! Hurry up or we will choose Nintendo.

[Sigh]

SHOW IT TO ME ALREADY SONY!

[xer0]

So i'm looking forward to getting my mits on PSP2.

[hazelamy]

if it is driveless like the rumours say they can count me right out, i don't want that kind of device, not while i have to deal with a monopoly supplier.

[silvacrest]

atleat i know it exists, with the lack of proper info i was having real doubts especially after TGS didn't show it off like i hoped

now the real question is, if developers have got a early version of it, how far away is it before we atleast get a official sony announcement?

[LiquifiedArt]

*To play psp games on the psp2
*TO Buy retail games and Rip them onto my Harddrive
- Allowing both Registering and UnRegistering(to resell) a game to the system.
*Size comparable to the PSPGo

[DRiX]

Depending on price... Day One. If not then soon after.

[havethumbs]

I have been holding out for a new PSP2 for I don't know 2 years now. I do still enjoy my original PSP but there are too many glaring problems to even consider purchasing a new PSP without a complete overhauling.

http://havethumbs.blogspot....

[kesvalk]

i just hope they don't try to make a extremely powerfull handheld...

if they make something along the 3DS specs, it will be able fight it in cost, and grab the multi-plat market...

the PSP sufered too much from not having the amazing games of the DS, i hope sony have learned the lesson...

and of course... a touchscreen...

[TheLastGuardian]

PSP2 is going to be amazing. I can already tell. It will be so powerful it might even be able to play PS3 games through remote play. I hope it's they make it capable of HD and 3D.

[Nugundam0079]

Third Birthday and Dissidia012 are coming out-i dont care about GOW-there are better psp titles to look forward to other than another game featuring an angry overgrown half naked man child puuhhlleeezz.

[TheLastGuardian]

That was random. Screw you, Ghost Of Sparta is going to be the greatest portable game ever. Action/Adventure > RPG any day of the week.

[JLeVRT]

I love Sony's handhelds. They have good graphics and GOOD, FULL games, unlike the DS's shovelware and the iPhones MANY zombie 2 hour app games... Sony all the way!

[Trroy]

Man I hope it *doesn't* have 3D. I'll take extra shading power instead. Using half your texel/pixel fill for 3D, like the 3DS does, seems like an unreasonable cost, to me.

[Allowen]

I really love my PSP but I got to say that I used my DS much more on the past 2 years bc it was some thing unique with dual screens and touch screen with mic.

The PSP 's games always tried to port PS3 games so there is nothing unique ,plus the control normally is a little slow since the D-pad got to simulate a second analog stick that the PSP does not have.

Just look at this 3DS ,it will also be a unique piece of hardware, totally different from the wii and probablly quite different from the next NES in terms of game play and games as well .

Lets hope that the PSP2 brings some thing different in terms of game play and games and that the devs don't worry too much about porting console games to it .
Uber Graphics is not every thing or the PSP would have sold 3 times more then the DS did .

[slutface]

im on the psp2 hypewagon....i know sony will try to top 3ds like their lives depended on it! its gonna be an epic battle!

[remanutd55]

so TGS has come and go sony , where are the in house AAA PSP titles for next year sony ? uh ? last big game sony have is God of War Ghost of Sparta and maybe Patapon 3 but thats about it , could it be that the majority of in house sony developers are working on the new PSP ?

[Xfanboy]

3Ds wins from popularity alone!!

[Lord_Doggington]

sorry marcus. your career ended before it began

[jay2]

I'm NOT geting this on ANY kind of mobile/cell phone contract, no way. I'd brought an iPhone if I wanted games/music/movies and calling in one place.

[silvacrest]

an all in one device is what i have wanted for a while now

[zak94ma]

waiting to see what i am gonna pick next year 3DS or PSP2 ?

[Johandevries]

The PSP Go launch was the biggest failure of 2009

[FinalomegaS]

if there is nothing "special" but stronger system than the previous model, does that warrant people to go crazy for it?

Sony doesn't just nintendo anymore but Apple showing their mug around now... Just hope both companies can keep handheld gaming strong.

[JJFNIGHTS80]

THEN SHOW ME SOME PROOF!

[Voodoochild]

I will be getting PSP2 on day one as long as it has a second analog nub.

[auen1]

i would have liked to have seen it at the last e3, because rumors have been swirling around about this for a while now. when mgs peacewalker came out i was planning on getting the bundle, but held out waiting for the psp2.