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I think that the next PSP should not be called PSP. Maybe a completely different name....for a mainstream Sony product.

  • -Naked 3D
  • -2 versions: with phone and without phone.
  • -biannualy upgrades in graphics and the screen
  • -touchscreen like minority report
  • camera for augmented reality and 3d photos and videos
  • accelerometers and gyroscope
  • games in flash cards and all of them in PSN too
  • A AWESOME OS to compete with iPhone. Maybe Android? There wouldn't be a conflict between psp software and android software? >.< that would be a problem.
  • Maybe Cloud Streaming, allowing the device to play PS3 games? That would be awesome.


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i don't know thats a hard question . . .



NINTENDO

nintendo forever . . .

Sony's main issue is that they need to show consumers reasons to play PSP games on a handheld as opposed to a console. PSP has some good games, but most of them just don't mesh well with the handheld experience. They are often epic cinematic and complex games. I think a lot of people who play handhelds just want quick pick up and play games.

They need to have their handheld games be unique and differenciate themselves from console games like Nintendo does with DS. DS games cannot be played on home consoles, and if they could, they wouldn't be the same experience. PSP games are just PS3 games with worse graphics. This is also why you usually see either the PS3 or PSP doing well, but not both. The PSP was thriving when the PS3 was struggling. Now that the PS3 is doing better, PSP sales are waning. They're just too similar.



PSP2 with graphics powerful than a PS3. Oh wait they can't, they'll be digging their own grave.



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All those Ys games are making it hard for me not to get a PSP.  UGH!



No Android for PSP as it is open source OS and easily hacked.

  1. Tight software security that does not need to be updated twice a week,
  2. custom made flash based physical media, 
  3. stylus FREE multi-touch capacitive screen like Iphone to differentiate itself from 3DS, 
  4. 3D naked visuals with 3D slider like 3DS, 
  5. powerful GPU made by Nvidia/Ati chip with Xbox 1 graphic with Unreal engine support for lazy developers,  
  6. Dual analog stick for FPS
  7. Backward compatible with PS1/PSP/PS2 games download
  8. Cheap 
  9. Bought off Level 5 to develop exclusive Professor Layton games, and develop in house gotta catch them all games
  10. PSP mini to have very low price  and some of them free like Iphone apps, cover all categories (some fart apps or sleepmakers wont hurt, better is some organizer apps), interchangeable with Sony Ericsson Android apps to double the market, and lower the dev cost
  11. Launch Playnow software suit (example Itunes) that can back up the apps, preferences and can purchase 3D movies and music at a cheap price, Sony Pictures and Sony Music can play their strength here
  12. Employ back Phil Harrison to innovate the casual market, he is the one discover Singstar and Little Big Planet


Take five people from each of their most talented studios and make them come up with PSP games in 6 months to a year.  I'm talking 5 people from Naughty Dog, Santa Monica, Media Molecule, Sucker Punch, Slant Six, Quantic Dream, San Diego studio, London, Cambridge, Liverpool, Guerilla Games.  Make them some talent to boot. I bet you would find interesting games in quick succession.  Those studios are large enough to lose a little talent and still thrive.  Give PSP the software backing it has always needed. Put your A gamers on the system because western 3rd parties aren't seeing success.  

PS Advertise the GAMES! and how low cost high quality they are.



I think they need to find a direction for the PSP. One of the problems the PSP has is ambiguity. You know it plays games and does some media functions, but it doesn't market itself as succeeding in either of them. They need to target a specific market and succeed with that market rather than targeting multiple markets at one. I'm not saying take functionality away, but give it a clear direction with the other things to be known as extras. Making it a phone won't help it at all. It would just add to the ambiguous nature it already has. Basically if they are going to make a handheld, then they need to make it a handheld. If they are going to make it a portable media device then it needs to excel as a media device. If it is going to be a phone, then it needs to exceed as a phone. Marketing it as a phone/gaming handheld/portable media device hybrid isn't going to help. Again, I'm not saying they should take away functionality, just make it clear what it does first and foremost and what the nice "extras" are.  



tingyu said:


  • Bought off Level 5 to develop exclusive Professor Layton games, and develop in house gotta catch them all games
  • Pretty sure this'll never happen... besides, PSP getting it's Pokeclone from L5 already (Danboard Senki).