PSP 2 To Have Xbox 360-Grade Specs, No UMD Drive

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Somebody at Sony must have walked under a ladder factory or got cut off by a van full of black cats or something, because the amount of leakage coming out of there is just ungodly (sly segues are our specialty, also we make a mean lasagna). But enough about our delicious lasagna, let’s see what dripped out of Sony this time.

Well only one big shock, as even analysts could tell you the next PSP wasn’t going to have a UMD drive, since Sony’s problems with going digital for the PSP Go were the unavailable back catalogue, adopters’ incompatible game collections, UMD/digital day & date delivery and pricing, all of which become moot for a new platform. Also, the iPhone did it spectacularly.

The meat here is in the announced and frankly hardly believable Xbox 360 level specs. Sony always had the spec-porn down, no doubt about it, it’s just that developing for something like that is likely to send costs for a portable game in the tens of millions, which is sorta bad when you’re aligning yourself against a platform with thousands of quality $1-5 games, not to mention putting up a steep roadblock for indies and other assorted miscreants who could have solved that for you.