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First pics of current PSP2 DevKit [Update: Large Update In OP]
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Cow Mengde
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amstradcpc said:
:lol :lol :lol
donkey show
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Time to head to the Philippines. :lol
.Lunchbox said:
I don't think it's an either/or in that sense.
Based on a very rough eyeballing, using the buttons as a point of comparison (assuming they're the same size), whatever this is would be a bit bigger than the Go. Maybe someone else can do a more exacting comparison. I was going to take a stab at screensize, but the image is really shitty, it's hard to know where the screen begins and ends.
I wonder if they're replacing this unit, or as Kotaku reported, considering it as one option vs the PSP-3000-ish one.
Sipowicz said:
There's shoulder buttons there I think. They're just not the same design as PSP's.
Ninja Moomin
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JordanLMiller said:
OMG so OBVIOUSLY fake.
badcrumble
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I still think that the 'rear trackpad' idea is stupid, stupid, stupid.
Graphics Horse
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Sipowicz said:
I think they're a bit like 360 bumpers, maybe not but I can't think of a better comparison right now.
rollingstart
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I don't get why people say there are no shoulder buttons. Am I missing something? have they mentioned no shoulder buttons? because to me, these:
look like shoulder buttons
look like shoulder buttons
Shalashaska
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At this point after thinking 2 screens on a handheld was stupid, as was the idea of the Wii, I'm willing to give it a shot. It all depends on how it is utilized however, and Nintendo tends to be the master of that.badcrumble said:
Father_Brain
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badcrumble said:
Agreed. Using it instead of a conventional touchscreen makes no sense unless Sony has gone the autostereoscopic route after all, which is unlikely considering every comment Sony execs have made about 3DS.
gofreak said:
it's still riskier. the back touch screen is more of an unknown quantity than 3d, accelerometers etc. once again two very different approaches from sony/nintendo
i dont think it's the same as the phone though. the phone had no analogues and it had a shitty little touchpad on the front
painful fart
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Did someone make a pretty good photoshop and then take a crappy pic with 10x10 pixels mobile camera?
Sipowicz said:
The analogs are mapped to the pad on the phone. And yes, the touchpad is smaller but functionally could serve the same purpose. Where it's used in a less abstract 'direct' way here, that could be mapped to front touchscreen functionality on the phone.
badcrumble
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2 screens on a handheld is weird and different, but clearly offer something new. Motion controls are weird and different, but clearly offer something new.Shalashaska said:
Rear touch panel is weird and different but also offers nothing to advantage it over an actual touchscreen.
I really hope this isn't it. I'd rather the PSP2 and 3DS differentiate themselves well so they can both have cool applications of their own technology that the other wouldn't be capable of. To me, this means multitouchscreen vs. 3D.Father_Brain said:
gofreak said:
i doubt it. i dont see how a little touch pad could be substituted for two analogues. a front touch screen would also be useless unless you closed the phone, at which point you'd lose access to the analogues/buttons. an issue the psp 2 doesn't have
there's too much of a disparity between the phone/psp2. it'd also creare issues in multiplayer games
DevilWillcry
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Awesome looks like it is everything I was expecting it to be. Now just get rid of that god awful D-pad and replace it with the traditional Playstation D-pad.
MvmntInGrn
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Curious how trackpad would work for first person looking. Left thumb on left analog, right index on trackpad.
Maybe it will be like the GBA SP D-pad. Would definitely be better than the classic playstation D-pad for 2D movement.DevilWillcry said:
rollingstart
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badcrumble said:
Two screens are still weird and different, and frankly, stupid. There still hasn't been much practical applications for two screens and the entire appeal of the DS is the touch screen, and it could have been better with one larger touch screen.
Similarly, this rear touchpad is weird, different, and stupid. Who knows if people will latch onto the idea like they did the dual screens. Only thing I'll say for sure is that having a rear touch screen and no touch screen proper, that would be a questionable choice.
GarthVaderUK
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Left analogue and d-pad switched around compared to their usual dual analogue set-up - if this is real I wonder if they'll carry that through to the PS4?
Not sure about the back touch panel, I haven't used one before but it seems a bit odd - I'd definitely like to see how it'll be used in games.
Not sure about the back touch panel, I haven't used one before but it seems a bit odd - I'd definitely like to see how it'll be used in games.
Sipowicz said:
Whether you like what you see or not, that's clearly what's intentioned in the SE phone design we've seen. The touchpad is rounded at the sides and has two little 'dots' - fairly clearly intended as centres of gravity for mapped analog control IMO
Sipowicz said:
I'm not sure why that need be the case.
We can certainly argue over which configuration is more comfortable or 'better', but I can totally understand why SE would make the type of design it made if it wanted to 'condense' the PSP2 interface into a form factor that would be less conspicuous, which would be required of a phone. The phone design we've seen is a fairly efficient, alternate representation of these same controls.