Aren't the Tegra chipset problems also why we haven't seen an onslaught of Android based tablets yet?  

Nope. If Microsoft fucked up the PSP2, they would release a 3 year warranty on heat related failures. If Sony fucked up the PSP2 they would deny the fuck up ever happened, and then redesign it, claiming the imaginary problems had been fixed.

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My question is, if the PSP2 doesn't have 3D, then it's already fucked up...wait...is that a question?

Honestly, I think Sony should just not release the PSP2. I really don't. I don't think it will benefit them, and I think it will probably end up costing them money. There is definitely a risk involved, and with the 3DS/iPad/Android phones, Sony is facing some pretty stiff up front competition. The general public won't see a tech advantage no matter how good the graphics are, and in fact, they will think the 3DS has the technical advantage because of the 3D aspect. If Sony's big plan is to add a touch screen and increase the graphics, then the next console will fail compared to the PSP. There are now significant multimedia advantages on any mobile phone, the PSP2 will be seen as technically inferior by most people and even some gamers(compared to the 3DS), it will cost more, have less battery life, and have much stiffer competition from not only Nintendo as an obvious winner in the next gen of handhelds, but also apple for portable multimedia devices.

Their alternative is to create a glassesless 2 screen 3D touch screen device with better graphics than the 3DS....but comeon, lol. Could they ever live that down?

Yeah I agree. They're best of waiting a year, releasing it at a ridicolous inital cost and coming in last place.

actually, you have the thing in reverse, NV2A was one of the first to have programmable pipelines, but the xbox was too much like a PC and had bottlenecks when it came to memory, the Cube parts worked much better in sync than the original Xbox ever could. The problem if you ask me, was the limited storage with the mini DVD in the cube, stupid decision.

power draw is a bitch

SO another thread where a rumor of a psp2 which means it should just die or will be a failure by the usual crowd?

yep

Just ask the Experts at Digital Foundry OK?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-vs-nintendo-3ds?page=1

"What we do have is a massively significant increase in rendering power over the existing DS, leap-frogging the PSP and probably offering around the same horsepower as a Dreamcast, maybe in some respects giving PS2-level performance. But from everything I've seen so far there's no sign of the sort of rendering features that you see in iPad or iPhone 3GS, so no evidence of programmable pixel shaders or other state-of-the-art OpenGL ES 2.0 loveliness."

"That being the case, to compare 3DS with Wii, or even GameCube, in terms of graphical quality based on this beautiful demo probably doesn't do the home console justice. The best demos we see based on actual game assets are of Dreamcast quality."

My opinion is, PSP already lost the battle to the DS even it has much more graphical power (PS2 vs N64, which is night and day), it can still barely hold on in Japan because of Monster Hunter only, a third party game which can jump ship any minute.

The difference now between 3DS and Tegra 2 is only between shader and no shader, to be flank, I wont know the difference. The only thing Tegra 2 might offer is ease of development by utilizing Open Gl on familiar Nvidia architecture by most of developers. 

PSP2 need to have groundbreaking technologies to counter the naked eye 3D effect of 3DS, polygon numbers doesnt matter now. Dual analog for FPS and no-stylus Capacity touchscreen for adventure game is a must.

I ain't gonna buy a PSP2 if it doesn't have dual analogue sticks, affordable launch price and quality games.

tegra and powerVR 5 are opengl 2.0, tegra problem was battery, sony makes batteries i just hope fuel and next gen battery were ready.. li-ion -polymer batteries are starting to show it age.