NGP/PSP 2 is gonna be increadibly expensive

1. Sony wants to undercut the 3DS's sales - so they will want to have a $299 sku available, if not at launch then soon after. [b]The PSP2 honestly shouldn't cost that much to manufacture. Apparently the iPad cost around $259 to manufacture (way back in April of last year) and it has a much more expensive screen ($97 each) and an extremely large very expensive battery as well as 16gbs of flash storage which isn't cheap either. Back in April of last year, the cpu and gpu in the iPad were pretty much cutting edge. The PSP2 will in all likelihood cost Sony less than that to manufacture.[/b]

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/04/07/apple.still.keeps.margins.on.tablet.costs/

2. At the same time, Sony does want to recoup some of the R&D costs early, so there will be a premium $399 sku at launch, and it will almost certainly be manufactured at much larger quantities than the $299 sku until supply surpasses demand. Why should Sony sell the bulk of the PSP2's for $299 at launch when the product will be in very high demand and due to shortages, most of those sold will wind up on ebay anyways at a significant mark up?

3.Both skus will come bundled with a voucher for a free Sony movie download, a free ps1 game download, and a free psp/psn game download from sony's playstation store. Why? Because it's a cheap way to get people used to the idea of downloading ps1 and psp games, and movies onto the device. The first online purchase is always the hardest one, because people are hesistant to take that first step. By offering the first download for free, Sony can get a lot of people use to idea of purchasing digital content, and particularly their favorite ps1 and psp games and hope that people keep it up. At the same time, it will go further in justifying the $50 or $150 premium price over the 3BS.

Based on these factors, I forsee $299 sku with a wifi only PSP2 and 4gbs of flash, and a $399 premium sku with a 3g/4g PSP2 and 8gbs of flash.

The cheap $299 model will be pushed out in very very limited quantities, until supply outstrips demand. It's there initially just as a bullet point to convince people not to buy a 3DS over christmas, and instead lay down an extra $50 to get a real handheld.

Sony will want to manufacture and sell mostly $399 models over christmas when they likely won't be able to produce the consoles fast enough. So good luck finding the $299 version unless you preorder it early

Low-level Embedded Graphical Library

NexGenGRAPH is a basic graphical library specifically designed for embedded environments. It performs common graphical operations, such as plotting pixels, lines, boxes, and circles, and drawing bitmaps and images. To enable displaying customisable fonts, a font manager is provided.

To support different screen resolution modes, NexGenGRAPH relies on a video driver. It manages the graphical controller and the frame buffer, using the common functions offered by the library. Accelerated operations are supported on case-by-case basis, depending on the video controller features.

NexGenGRAPH exports all its dependencies to NexGenOS®, including the input drivers, and can thus easily be ported to a new architecture simply by writing a new video driver.

NexGenGRAPH also includes GIF and JPEG decoders that process the image decoding on the fly. This feature is particulary useful

Next Gen Portable PSP2

Sony computer entertainment Japan have officially announced the PSP2 Codenamed (NGP) The NGP or PSP2 is packing a serious punch for a handheld gaming device, 5inch OLED Touch screen display 960x566 with added rear touch panel, front and rear facing cameras, Six Axis motion sensors, GPS, Digital Compass, Bluetooth 2.1 (EDR), wireless N, 3G support for wireless Gaming and wireless media on the move, dual analog stick it will be shipping with the PS3 Collection of games, Such as Wipeout, Uncharted, and Little big planet. But Sony haven’t confirmed the price or the battery life of the device but what they have shown off the game-play and graphics looks amazing. Date they will start shipping the NGP is the Holiday season this year, check out the mind blowing video below, and leave your comments in the section below

from - http://hubpages.com/hub/Next-Gen-Portable-PSP2
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How Sony Can Make Their Next Gen Portable A Must Buy

from - http://kotaku.com/5745921/how-sony-can-make-their-next-gen-portable-a-must-buy

Today, Sony is on the handheld gaming campaign trail, preparing for us to vote with our dollars this fall. Should you buy an NGP — the successor to the PSP — in late 2011?
It depends on whether Sony finally gets its PSP line right, if Sony's prose matches its poetry.

The Promise

This past week, we've seen the new PSP, the NGP, in action. We've seen the specs. We've even been able to imagine the invisible checklist of problems with the original PSP that Sony people must have had handy as they ticked them off and made the NGP:

__ Add Second Analog Stick
__ Get Rid Of Noisy Disc Drive
__ Add Touchscreen To Keep Up With Times
__ Make Sure It Is Smaller Than A Loaf of (French) Bread
__ Improve Wireless Connectivity
__ Add Cameras
__ Throw In At Least One Motion Sensor
__ Oh, And Make Sure It's More Powerful Than Whatever Weird Thing Nintendo Is Making
It's all so wonderful. They even added things we didn't know we needed, like a built-in compass and extra touch panels on the device's backside.

Sony's unveiling of their next big machine was as impressive as… their last one. Their last one happened in 2005, when they showed the world the PlayStation 3, a machine that had a boomerang-shaped controller, output graphics onto two HDTVs at the same time and ran, as those of us who attended the Electronics Entertainment Expo Sony briefing in May of that year saw, the best-looking video games we've still ever seen