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Sony confirms PSP2 launching this year
Next generation portable games console to feature 3G, GPS
Sony will launch the much anticipated successor to its PlayStation Portable later this year, the company said Thursday.
The new device, provisionally dubbed the "next generation portable" or NGP, will have a 5-inch OLED display, WiFi and 3G networking, front and rear cameras and a GPS sensor.
It will have a touchpad on the rear of the device and, answering the calls of many gamers, the device will also sport dual analog sticks. A price and launch date were not immediately announced.
Sony has been struggling to keep up in the portable gaming space in the last few years.
The original PSP, launched in 2004, was updated twice with the last refresh coming in 2007. A year later Sony launched the redesigned PSPgo, that did away with a drive for physical discs and put much more reliance on the network, but the device sold poorly.
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