Sony unveils new PlayStation Portable System

The new hand-held gaming portable with a 3G-enabled PlayStation portable system and Smartphone game platform unveiled by Sony Computer Entertainment. In addition to cell and Wi-Fi chips for accessing online services, the new PlayStation portable gadget looks like its predecessor but has a 5-inch touch-screen and a second analog stick, which is useful for controlling first-person shooters like "Call of Duty."


Games come on memory cards, and some can be downloaded directly to the device. Sony is doing away with the mini discs it pushed with the original PlayStation Portable. The PlayStation system's finger-friendly back is really the frosting on an array of sweetly stacked ingredients in this high-tech gadget.

The new system is tentatively being called Next Generation Portable, or NGP, but that will likely change before it launches late this year.

Sony Computer Entertainment said, PlayStation phones and the upcoming PlayStation hand-held, with its built-in 3G service, will have a major focus on social networking features.

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