It's important to note though that all that was seen was just a 'tech demo' showing the potential in the NGP. Absolutely none of those tech demos shown was confirmed to be a game in development, but rather just to show that it's 'PS3-ish' performance and that Sony has made it easy for cross-platform porting/multi-development between the 2.
I think the potential is there. Kojima cited a potential of building correlation between the NGP and PS3, where you can pick up from where you left your PS3 game on your NGP instead. It can either be a risky case of fragmentation or a situation which makes the best of the connectivity of the 2 platforms. Note though, that he's the only one who brought it up. Everyone else was just 'games or tech demo.'
Honestly, either way, it's too early to judge. NGP clearly didn't have the same amount of time compared to 3DS for the tech to really sink in for the developers, and thus only Uncharted really showed itself as a playable game, while everything else was just 'lol here's the result of 3 weeks playing with the NGP SDK.'
PSP itself didn't have the finest of starts, being a pseudo-portable PS2, with stuff having things from ports of PS1 and PS2 games. It ended up being a great system with a large amount of good games ultimately, and is still showing a lot of maturity behind the system's retentivity.
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Originally Posted by Key Board
A new PS3 is around 300 dollars on Amazon. This PSP2 looks to be somewhere around that price range.
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I'm thinking aside from selling it at a loss ( as usual ), they might circumvent some of the heavy cost through data plans with mobile service carriers.
Forcing a premium price, as seen from the PS3's initial debut for one, has proven itself to be quite the difficult hurdle to break, especially with competitors inching all too closely.