Sony Announces The NGP

Rumors have been circulating around the web of Sony releasing a new handheld system. Well, last night at their press conference, they put those rumors to rest and unveiled "Codename NGP"!

They've confirmed that they are doing away with the UMD disks in favor of a new flash memory-based card. It will have two thumb-sticks, a front touchscreen, a back touchpad, and front and back cameras. They also confirmed some titles for the system will be Call of Duty, Broken, Gravity Daze, Hot Shots Golf, Hustle Kings, Killzone, LittleBigPlanet, Little Deviants, Reality Fighters, Resistance, Uncharted,  and WipEout. Full specs of the system are below:

CPU: ARM Cortex-A9 core (4-core)

GPU: SGX543MP4+

External Dimensions: Approx. 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth) (tentative, excludes largest projection)

Screen: 5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colors, OLED

Touchscreen: Multi-touch screen (capacitive type)

Rear Touchpad: Multi-touch pad (capacitive type)

Cameras: Front camera; rear camera

Sound: Built-in stereo speakers; built-in microphone

Sensors: Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer); three-axis electronic compass

Location: Built-in GPS; Wi-Fi location service support

Keys/Switches: PS button; power button; directional buttons (Up/Down/Left/Right); action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square); shoulder buttons (Right/Left); right and left sticks; Start button; Select button; volume buttons (+/-)

Wireless Communications: Mobile network connectivity (3G); IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n=1x1) (Wi-Fi) (Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode); Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (A2DP/AVRCP/HSP)

It's also just been announced that the battery life for this will be 4-5 hours, good enough to pass the time between classes. Nintendo is going to have a lot of competition when this little beauty is released!

~Eagle