I personally kinda want it to fail like the previous "NGP" back in 1998. Now objectively speaking, there's two things that stick out about the system that make me wonder a bit: Battery running time and the system's originality in general.

The battery runtime was bad enough on the old PSP in my opinion (PSP-2000, around 2 hours at 222 MHz and the battery is half empty?), but what's it gonna be with a quad-core CPU and GPU, as well as an OLED display? Of course, the 3DS isn't exactly the longest lasting machine out there either... It's why I look back at my old DS Phat and praise its battery life, which hasn't really ever let me down, with hours of Pokemon SoulSilver without having to recharge.

Now the "originality" thing... What's so special about the system? It's a smartphone with game controls, and as far as I'm aware without telephone capabilities (besides 3G for data), more or less. Sorry that I keep comparing it to the 3DS, but that one's at least got the whole stereoscopic 3D aspect going for it, not to mention original game titles and in turn possible uses for the 3D effect, where I fear the NGP might end up with many downgraded PS3-to-NGP ports and such.

Also, probably less important overall but it is for me, there's backwards compatibility, or the lack thereof in NGP. I don't know if anything in that regard has been announced yet, but I take it if backwards compatibility to the PSP will be possible in the end, you'll need to re-buy your games via PSN as digital downloads. They scrapped that UMD-to-download trade-in idea for the PSPgo back then, so I don't see them do it for this machine.

Oh well, enough ranting from me. It does have a chance to kick the 3DS into the nuts if they do it right, but I'm not sure if that'll happen.


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Originally posted by Stigandr

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One man's originality is another man's lame-ass gimmick. That said, name another handheld with actual analog sticks, not shitty nubs.

Which is in fact the part that got my interest.

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I've never had a problem with the PSP's nubs, so I didn't even consider the difference here as important. But as you say, people have different opinions.

I was also thinking more of significant things being done here, than just a relatively minor difference (as, nub or stick, both are analog) in one part of the system - the 3DS's 3D display is something like that, or hell, the PSP's analog control before. The NGP does not look like it's going to deliver anything like this, at least to me.


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