Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida likened the power of the next PSP to that of its current home console. A handful of developers took the stage to show just that, playing an all-new Uncharted game designed for the new handheld, as well as a few games based on existing PlayStation 3 titles.
Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima showed a demonstration of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots running on the PSP2, looking almost as good as its console counterpart. “This game used the model data and environments from PS3, and it was exported directly to NGP,” Kojima said, adding “On NGP, we can enjoy the same quality as the PS3.”
Sega’s Toshihiro Nagoshi also showed off a PSP2 version of Yakuza 4, extolling the ease of using PlayStation 3 assets, saying the Yakuza team created its NGP demo in a very short time frame.
Capcom’s Jun Takeuchi showed two games running on the PSP2, a copy of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd to illustrate the system’s backwards compatibility with downloadable PSP games and a demo version of Lost Planet, which looked close to its PlayStation 3 ancestor.
None of those titles were officially announced as PSP2 games, however.
William Hamilton
Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 8:56 PMRelease metal gear 3 and 4 on the psp 2 and you have a satisfied customer.
moloko
Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 9:09 PMThe screen is 5 inches, everything looks good on a 5 inch screen. My Wii looks as powerfull as a PS3 plugged into a 5 inch screen.
Russell Leung
Friday, January 28, 2011 at 12:30 AMIf it runs ps3-like games, it’s battery is going to be fail; worse than 3ds probably
Michael Barnes
Friday, January 28, 2011 at 4:26 PMThen you will be surprised to hear its better than the 3DS battery. 4-6 hours; same as the PSP 3000 vs the 3DS 3-5. These are with both systems other features on such as wi-fi. The problem is the 3DS uses the same battery as current DS where as I suspect the NGP uses a newer battery or simply the OLED uses less juice.
roxahris
Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 3:31 AMDamnit, guys, stop calling it Yakuza 4. It had zombies in it, for crying out loud! It’s evidently Yakuza Of The End!