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Sony To Offer PSP Bundle With Madden NFL 12 And Need For Speed Shift

, Aug 10th 2011 Discuss [1]

Sony's PlayStation Portable will soon be available in a special bundle called the PSP Entertainment Pack. So, if you've been wanting to get a portable gaming console and you're not patient enough for the next-gen PS Vita, then at least wait until August 30, when this PSP deal hits store shelves. The bundle will include the PSP itself plus two games and a 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo for a total of $159.99. Read The Full Story

Sony PS Vita May Not Ship Until January 2012?

, Jun 22nd 2011 Discuss [5]

Sony's PSP successor, which has long been dubbed the NGP for next-generation portable was finally unveiled at E3 2011 as the PS Vita. It promises to bring PS3 console quality games to handheld and was slated for this fall just in time for the holiday season. However, recent reports from online pre-orders through Amazon suggest that the device may not ship until January of next year. Read The Full Story

Sony Answers All Your PS Vita Questions

, Jun 9th 2011 Discuss [67]

One of the major announcements kicking off this past week's E3 2011 conference, was Sony's unveiling of the next-generation portable (NGP) now known as the PS Vita. The new portable gaming device boasts front and rear cameras as well as a unique integration of front and rear touch panels into its gameplay among several new features. Pricing and general timeframe for availability was also revealed. But if you still have more questions, Sony has posted up a long FAQs to answer everything or at least what it can say for now. Read The Full Story

Sony NGP Select Games Get Early Preview

, Jun 2nd 2011 Discuss [2]

Just earlier today, Sony confirmed that the NGP handheld will be backwards compatible with all those PSP games you've purchased in the past. The company also decided to do an early preview of select NGP games during its private event at the Sony Pictures soundstage in LA. Read The Full Story

Sony NGP Backwards Compatibility Confirmed And Detailed

, Jun 2nd 2011 Discuss [1]

The Sony PSP successor codenamed the NGP is expected to debut at the upcoming E3 2011 conference. When the NGP was first announced, it was said that the device would be able to play previously downloaded PSP games. At a press event today, Sony has gone further to confirm and detail this backwards compatibility. Read The Full Story

Sony PS Vita name for NGP tipped via PlayStation site source code

, Jun 2nd 2011 Discuss [1]

No one will argue that Sony needs a new portable console. The PSP has never sold as well as the competition, even when it was new, and the new 3DS is now here and doing well. Sony needs a new portable to compete and the Sony portable we know now as the NGP has been tipped to be officially called the PS Vita when it launches. Read The Full Story

Nintendo 3DS eShop landing on June 7

, May 12th 2011 Discuss [1]

The Nintendo 3DS is a cool little handheld and when we got our hands on it for a review back in late March we liked it well enough. We did have a few complaints though. The most notable was the lack of the digital eShop to buy download games and other stuff. If the lack of the digital shop is what has kept you from picking the 3DS up, that omissions will be remedied very soon. Engadget reports that the 3DS eShop will be available starting on June 7. Read The Full Story

Sony says Japanese disaster won’t delay launch of NGP

, Apr 7th 2011 Discuss [3]

A few days ago, we mentioned that the Sony NGP might be delayed due to production issues resulting from the disaster in Japan right now. The story of delays in the next portable console from Sony started with Bloomberg and now Sony is saying that the Bloomberg report was not correct. Read The Full Story

Knowles Acoustics unveils new low-power digital MEMS joystick for handhelds

, Mar 30th 2011 Discuss [0]

One of the things that most mobile phones that are used for gaming and a lot of the portable game consoles lack is a joystick. I for one would like to see joysticks get integrated into consumer devices to replace tilt sensors and virtual d-pads. Read The Full Story

Sony NGP to be priced at $350 and $250?

, Mar 16th 2011 Discuss [9]

We already know that the cool sounding Sony NGP will come in two models. The difference between these two will be one has 3G and the other will lack 3G. What we don’t know is what the actual price of the portable game systems will be. Ubisoft has conducted a survey of users to see how likely they will be to buy a NGP. Read The Full Story

Sony’s Kaz Hirai talks NGP with Official PlayStation Blog

, Feb 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

I was never that impressed by the original PSP, the games on the system weren't that great and the portable device itself was just not as fun as the Nintendo DS to me. When Sony unveiled the NGP last month the new portable looks great and I am excited about it. The unveiling of the NGP early in the year for a launch near the holiday season of 2011 left a lot of us wondering why the console was announced so early. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review- Week 5 2011

, Jan 30th 2011 Discuss [1]

Welcome to this week's edition of the SlashGear Week in Review! If you are a PC hardware geek an AMD spokesman causally showed off an unannounced video card on Monday called the HD 6990. The card has dual GPUs and should be very fast. We heard a bit of early detail on the PSP2 from Nikkei that claimed the new portable would have an OLED touchscreen, 3G and a new CPU. That would make for a very impressive portable indeed. Read The Full Story
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