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Eurogamer’s spanish arm and their sources apparently told of a PSP2 to be released by the end of this year or the start of the following year. It is also rumored to boast of Xbox Quality Graphics which would put it at Halo 2 or Jade Empire Quality. Considering these games required Directx 8 capable gaming graphics(Think the Geforce 3-4/Radeon 8k-9k) and close to a gigahertz processor(700mhz in the Xbox’s case) to power, this speculated next-gen PSP2 really would be a mobile powerhouse indeed.

The PSP Go which is scheduled to be released very soon already possess a processor that runs up to 480mhz against the current 400mhz cap of the current-gen PSPs. But yeah, what about the PSP go? Sony appears to be going the way of Sega with release after release of incremental upgrades that really does not do much justice to the Playstation brand name nor bring to the fore new features to be excited about. Consumers are getting stuff like a brighter screen, thinner specifications or better battery life in the 3 releases of the current PSP(1k,2k,3k series). That is all well and good but Nintendo did that in one release, the DS to the DS Lite and brought new features with the DSi, Sony has done what the DS Lite has for THREE generations instead of ONE and that excludes the arguably incremental soon to be released PSP Go which removes the UMD drive and includes flash memory and a faster processor along with other minor changes.

The PSP Go could be seen as a variant of the PSP that brings new features but for that to happen, it has to mirror the lifespan of the DSi and has time to settle into a vastly saturated market today. If Sony releases the PSP2, no matter how excellent it is, the product could fail as consumers has already lost faith in Sony keeping their products on the market for a sustained and supported period instead of quickly eliminating it for a newer variant. The PSP Go could be the DSi for Sony, but could the PSP2 be the Dreamcast that will sound the death knell in Sony’s flagging console business?
Translated Source from Eurogamer Spain