DEV HINT: PSP2 FOR EASTER 2011

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Following yesterday's news that UK first and third-party developers already have PSP2 dev kit in-house, we made some phone calls. Looks like the Sony handheld will be coming to the public in six months.

Due to Sony's understandable non-disclosure policy to development teams in receipt of pre-release hardware, actually getting a developer to admit to having such thing in-house proved difficult. We were informed - under rules of strict anonymity however - by one dev that, "I won't say a thing mate. Absolutely nothing."

Seems cut and dried? Not when a "No, we definitely don't have any PSP2 kit" would have covered it.

We were also informed by a developer, asked if when they looked around their studio they could see a PSP2 device of any kind, "I can't tell you. I'll be able to tell you why I can't tell you in six months though."

Six months from now, March 2011. Just in time for the second biggest buying period in the West, and with enough time to avoid Xmas Kinect, but bumping smack bang into the launch of the 3DS.

Via [Spong]

I love the picture

This.

I seriously doubt Sony would release the PSP2 head to head with the 3DS.

If they're not allowed to talk about it until six months from now, that implies an announcement in six months, not a launch.

Silly reporter.

Edit:  So beaten.

Hope it doesn't take too long.  Don't want it to launch TOO long after the 3DS.  :(

OR OR OR a full blow out at the Fabula Nova conference in January! Agito a PSP2 launch title! "Surprises" await us remember!

One can dream :D

so is E3 in six months?  or any other event that would make sense to reveal a psp2?

That suppose PSP2 in the picture is identical to DS, how the hell will PSP2 top 3DS's software line-up, already it has at least 30 appealing looking games. 

That picture is flawed actually it says PS2P. Unless Sony are releasing the Playstation 2 portable!  What a slip up.

So... 6 Months time?

Game Developers Conference? It's on in March...

Would be a perfect place to reveal it. Then hype the nuts off it up until E3... Then release it towards the Holidays?

It's obviously a fake man.

I mean... It has no analog nub!!