{"id":199,"date":"2011-01-27T18:53:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T00:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2011-01-27T18:53:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T00:53:05","slug":"sony-unveils-new-ngp-portable-playstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/sony-unveils-new-ngp-portable-playstation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony unveils new &#8216;NGP&#8217; portable PlayStation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAPANESE entertainment giant Sony on Thursday unveiled a portable touchscreen PlayStation as it looks to launch a fresh challenge to Nintendo and Apple in the competitive mobile gaming market.<\/p>\n<p>At a special media event in Tokyo, Sony also unveiled a &#8216;Suite&#8217; application for older PlayStation games allowing them to be played on mobile phones and tablet computers running Google&#8217;s Android operating system.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Next Generation Portable&#8217; PlayStation will succeed Sony&#8217;s PlayStation Portable handheld device and boasts 3G mobile connectivity and wifi, allowing users to download games and other content, said Kazuo Hirai, president and group chief executive, Sony Computer Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>The NGP features a five-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touchscreen, a GPS receiver, a motion sensor and a rear panel touchpad to control certain actions, as well as navigation buttons and a joystick.<\/p>\n<p>Sony said the device would be available in time for the 2011 holiday shopping season but did not indicate a price.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese giant&#8217;s PSP Go, launched in November 2009, already features software downloads through a wireless connection, allowing players to also browse the Internet, watch movies, play music and read books and comics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAPANESE entertainment giant Sony on Thursday unveiled a portable touchscreen PlayStation as it looks to launch a fresh challenge to Nintendo and Apple in the competitive mobile gaming market. At a special media event in Tokyo, Sony also unveiled a &#8216;Suite&#8217; application for older PlayStation games allowing them to be played on mobile phones and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}