{"id":11975,"date":"2011-05-27T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-control-sony-ngp-specs-downgraded-to-compete-with-nintendo-3ds-price-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11975-rumour-control-sony-ngp-specs-downgraded-to-compete-with-nintendo-3ds-price-point","title":{"rendered":"Rumour control: Sony NGP specs downgraded to compete with Nintendo 3DS price point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report on French gaming site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.01net.com\/editorial\/533663\/la-ngp-sortira-en-2011-moins-puissante-et-moins-chere-que-prevu\/\" target=\"_blank\">01.net <\/a>(declined, conjugated, and translated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/news\/ram-cut-internal-memory-removed\" target=\"_blank\">1UP<\/a>&rsquo;s vocab wizards), Sony&rsquo;s codenamed-Next Generation Portable has had a bit of a spec downgrade so the new handheld can compete with the Nintendo&rsquo;s 3DS retail price point. Which might sound like a rather specious rumour, but the site apparently has a history of credible info leaks about the NGP.<\/p>\n<p>The report claims that hardware revisions to the original specs include an on-board RAM cut of 50% to 256 MB; a reduction in the OS footprint in memory tasks; and the complete removal of the previously announced 16 GB of internal flash memory, opting instead for external memory cards. The 128 MB of video RAM remains unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the site says Sony will be launching the NGP in Japan later this year, and everywhere else sometime in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Sony&rsquo;s not saying anything for the moment, but expect all to be revealed at E3 in June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/13959-NGP-specs-being-downgraded?p=436189#post436189\" target=\"_self\">Discuss NGP<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also, Japan launch this year, everywhere else in 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}