Dev Claims They Have a PSP2 in The House, “It’s Pretty Powerful”
Well, we are as surprised as you are. For months PSP2 rumors have been circulating the web, but nothing as solid as this: from out of nowhere Shaun Himmerick, executive producer on the new Mortal Kombat title seemingly confirmed a PSP successor.
IndustryGamers asked the developer if the new Mortal Kombat game would feature for the PSP. Himmerick replied
“We’re not launching day one on all consoles like that. We are looking at them; we have a PSP2 in the house and we’re looking at the engine, like what can it support. Always a big thing for us is the performance. We’re running at 60 fps, what can we do and do we have to build all the art assets over. We’re definitely looking at them. PSP2 looks like it’s a pretty powerful machine. We don’t have a 3DS system in house yet, but we’re looking to get one, and we’ll certainly look at what its power is.”
Wait, what? I know, we are thinking the same thing too. With Sony being so confident that the PSP has years left in the market, this is certainly a surprise if true. Sony responded to CVG:
“We haven’t announced any news on PSP.”
So, PSP2 apparently exists. It’s powerful. It’s in developers hands. It’s sexy. The latter is speculation.
12 Responses to “Dev Claims They Have a PSP2 in The House, “It’s Pretty Powerful””
OMG OMG OMG OMG! o.o
I just hope the price isn’t too excessive when it does actually arrive.
I wouldn’t count on that man… you know… Sony is indeed quality but man it ain’t cheap :O
i saw it (concept, and prototypes). i have a friend who developers for a certain company. its pretty powerful and it does what everyone wants (unless your a prick who asks for the impossible). sony might do what apple does with the different gigabytes range, so the prices will vary, but so will the features. so i guess sony wants to meet everyone needs and price range. sony will either reintroduce the vmu or change it to something more suitable but they are definitely trying to get the “digital download” and “hard copy” crowd into the same ball game. but sony might introduce a whole new format/disk that’s more suitable. unlike the 3ds that claims to be up-to-par with the current gen (my ass) the psp2 is definitely up there. its gonna be touch screen with the option of using hard buttons.
man i cant wait for it!!!
l’ll follow where ever the psp goes to. Can’t wait till they announce the psp2
this seems a little odd. An anouncement of new hardware is a pretty big deal. Usually its not just anounced in some random interview by one of the execs. Its done BIG, through a press conference. Even the pspgo was “introduced” properly at e3, even though there were some rumors and leaked screen shots.
Why would this guy just go and blurt out something so big like this? Its not like the psp2 was already announced and this guy is just like “ooh, we have one”. Its hasnt, and im sure if this guy has a grain of logic, he should know that and keep his mouth shut until Sony decides to talk about it. Ever heard of confidentiality?
Im not gonna make too much of this, but this guy is kind of an idiot.
westslide
you thinking to hard bro. theres is no such thing of confidentiality. a lot of people have been talking about the pspgo, from companies. psls just hasnt been reporting them. i read other sites and i read a couple of things about psp2 from developers. a lot of things usually get talked about before e3 or conferences. like the ps3 slim for example.
i mean psp2, but anyways people have been talking about pspgo before sony did a formal announcement
So guys who wants to guess a RELEASE DATE for this all mighty gizmo?
I say December 2011
I’m confident they will show the PSP2 at E3 2011 then release it either in the fall 2011 or more likely around March 2012
I hope is not 2012 since we will have until December to play with it! XD