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Next Generation Portable Third Party Developers Revealed

by Rainier on Jan. 27, 2011 @ 6:15 p.m. PST

NGP is designed to offer unparalleled interactive entertainment, offering a revolutionary combination of rich gaming and social connectivity within a real world context, made possible by leveraging SCE's experience from both PSP and PS3 entertainment systems.

Deep and immersive gaming is at the core of PlayStation's DNA, and NGP is the latest embodiment of this vision. By having both Wi-Fi and 3G network connectivity, together with various applications, NGP will enable infinite possibilities for users to "encounter," "connect," "discover," "share" and "play" with friends wherever they are. Within the device are a range of features that provide a genuinely cutting-edge, next generation ultimate portable entertainment experience.

  1. Stunning OLED and Revolutionary User Interface: NGP incorporates a beautiful multi-touch 5-inch organic light emitting display (OLED) as the front display. A high-performance CPU / GPU combined with OLED enables rich, visually striking graphics never seen before on a portable entertainment system, for both games and other digital entertainment content. The new system also incorporates a unique multi-touch pad on the rear, and together with the front touch display, NGP offers new game play allowing users to interact directly with games in three dimension-like motion, through "touch, grab, trace, push and pull" moves of the fingers.
  2. Super Oval Design and Dual Analog Sticks: While succeeding the basic design philosophy of PSP, NGP adopts the Super Oval Design form factor, created to fit comfortably in users' hands. For the first time, a portable entertainment system will feature two analog sticks, which enable a wider range of game genres to be brought into the portable experience.
  3. LiveArea: Every game title for NGP will be provided with a space called "LiveArea™" where users can share the fun and excitement with other players. Users will have access to the latest information of games provided from SCE and 3rd party developers and publishers through PlayStation®Network. Additionally, NGP users will be able to view an "Activity" log that is constantly updated with accomplishments from users who are playing the same game, which in turn can trigger active real-time communication among users.
  4. Near: SCE will also provide location-based services on NGP as part of the basic features utilizing PlayStation Network. The new application called "Near," developed specifically for this service and the network, will be pre-installed in the system to let users find out what their friends in the vicinity are playing now or what they were playing recently. Users can meet their friends and new players virtually, regardless of what games they are playing, simply by sharing their game information across different dimensions of time and distance.
  5. New Game Medium: NGP adopts a new game medium, a small flash memory based card, dedicated for NGP software titles. Taking advantage of the flash memory feature, this innovative card can store the full software titles plus add-on game content or the game save data directly on to the card. By adopting flash memory based card, SCE will be able to provide game cards with higher capacity in the future, allowing developers to store more game data to deliver rich and immersive games.

NGP will also come equipped with two cameras on its front and rear, as well as three motion sensors, gyroscope, accelerometer and electronic compass, all of which are designed to enable users to enjoy the world of entertainment that is linked with real life experiences.

The NGP is expected this holiday season and will launch with a slew of games such as Hot Shots Golf, Gravity Daze, Killzone, Reality Fighters, LittleBigPlanet, Little Deviants, WipeOut, Resistance, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, Uncharted and others.

Thirs Party Developers:

  • Japan:
    • Acquire Corp.
    • Alvion Inc.
    • AQ Interactive Inc.
    • Arc System Works Co., Ltd.
    • Arika Co., Ltd.
    • ArtDunk Corporation
    • ASCII Media Works Inc.
    • Capcom Co., Ltd.
    • Chun Soft Co., Ltd.
    • Codemasters Software Company Limited
    • Crafts and & Meister Co., Ltd.
    • CyberConnect2 Co., Ltd.
    • D3 Publisher Inc.
    • Dimps Corporation
    • Edia Co., Ltd.
    • Enterbrain, Inc.
    • From Software, Inc.
    • Gameloft K.K.
    • Genki Co., Ltd.
    • Grasshopper Manufacture Inc.
    • GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc
    • Gust Co., Ltd.
    • Hamster Corporation
    • Hudson Soft Co., Ltd.
    • Idea Factory Co., Ltd.
    • Index Corporation (Atlus)
    • IREM Software Engineering Inc.
    • Kadokawa Games, Ltd.
    • Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.
    • Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    • Level-5 Inc.
    • Marvelous Entertainment Inc.
    • media5 Corporation
    • Namco Bandai Games Inc.
    • Nihon Falcom Corporation
    • Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.
    • NowProduction, Co., Ltd.
    • Q Entertainment Inc.
    • Sega Corporation
    • SNK Playmore Corporation
    • Spike Co., Ltd.
    • Square Enix Co., Ltd.
    • SystemSoft Alpha Corp.
    • Tecmo Koei Games Co., Ltd.
    • Tomy Company, Ltd
    • Tose Co., Ltd.
    • Ubisoft K.K.
    • Yuke's Co., Ltd.
  • North America:
    • Activision, Inc.
    • Capybara Games
    • Demiurge Studios
    • Epic Games Inc.
    • Far Sight Studios
    • Frima
    • High Voltage Software
    • King Fu Factory
    • Paramount Digital Entertainment
    • PopCap Games
    • Powerhead Games
    • Trendy Entertainment
    • Ubisoft
    • Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
    • 2K Games
    • 2K Sports
  • Europe/PAL:
    • Avalanche Studios
    • Climax Studios Ltd
    • Codemasters Software Company
    • Eurocom Development Ltd
    • Eutechnyx Ltd
    • Exient Ltd
    • Firemint Pty Ltd
    • Gameloft SA
    • Gusto Games Ltd
    • Home Entertainment Suppliers Pty Ltd
    • Impromptu Software Ltd
    • Rebellion
    • Rockstar Games
    • Sidhe Interactive
    • Sumo Digital Ltd
    • Team 17 Software
    • Ubisoft Entertainment SA
    • Zen Studios
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