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With heavy rivalry between Sony and Apple on handheld gaming, the next PSP will be designed with touch screen controls. Many gamers will be upset while others will be delighted. The touch screen control system makes it harder to play full on 3D 'complete' games. Indie developers run rife on iPod at the moment. The new PSP will have more computing power than the iPod and so I expect we will see professional games from professional studios.

Since it's in heavy rivalry, I assume we will also see exclusives and the porting of some current iPhone apps to PSP. Myself, I would have preferred the analog stick as it allows for greater depth of control, the PSP has always been a handheld console for the core gamer and it seems Sony are changing this. Nevertheless, I assume we can see higher quality games on the iPhone in any case. It'll be interesting to see how games such as God Of War and Metal Gear Solid face touch screen controls.

The New PSP is rumoured to release in late 2011 so the image here is most likely a prototype.

Thanks to _-MR.Peters-_ for bringing this to my attention.

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touch screen psp, sounds like an ipod that can only play games lol

No i dont want it to have touch screen

who uses the PSP?
should i get one??

I hope the PSP is going to have an extra cool feature.

Exactly, for the other features touchscreen is perfect, BUT for gaming (the main reason of the PSP) it will be shit

wow thats going to be so pro i am going to buy that

If it really has touch screen I will end up buying it when out. LoL

Before the PSP go came out I thought it was suppose to be touch screen. :/

Touch screen?Hell no,PSP just needs to be stronger,and it needs some serious FPS and more GTAs,otherwise the psp 2k-3k is perfect