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In just a some hoursâ€"and barring some uninvited surprisesâ€"we should be getting our first looking at a spiffy newborn PlayStation Portable. What are you hoping to see in the next-generation PSP?

The widely-rumored PSP2 is due to be unveiled primeval weekday at a Sony advise circumstance in Tokyo. For the record, Sony hasn't officially confirmed the newborn PSP, but consort exists hit been coyly hinting most it for months now, and several mettlesome developers hit openly admitted to sight the revamped handheld console in action.

The newborn PSP isn't to be confused with the also-rumored PlayStation Phone, a.k.a. the Xperia Play, an Android-powered phone from Sony Ericsson that most conceive module attain its entry at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month.

While the PSP2 belike won't attain traditional vocalise calls (although I'm trusty it module handle Skype vocalise chat, a feature already available on the existing PSP 3000 and PSP Go), the newborn console is said to jactitation wireless 3G support, as well as an eye-popping OLED concealment andâ€"finallyâ€"dual similarity sticks.

Kotaku has a accessible summary of the underway and time PSP2 chatter, including recent rumors that the phone module hit a rear touchpad, a large display than existing PSPs, andâ€"like 2009's PSP Goâ€"no more fleshly UMD drive, message that every newborn PSP games module be downloadable.

Another hot gossip most the PSP2 is that it module hit 1GB of RAM (twice that of the Xbox 360) and a souped-up processor that's "as powerful as the Playstation 3"â€"a jactitation that's belike more hyperbole than reality, but we'll hopefully learn the actuality soon enough.

Among the many other discourse marks most the (as-yet unconfirmed) PSP2: whether it'll hit the PSP Go's slide-out controls or go for the standard PSP design, the literal filler and partitioning of the (rumored) OLED display, and whether the main concealment module be touch-sensitive.

Also: module the PSP2 be backward-compatibile with PSP games? (This assumes, of course, that the PSP2 is a true, next-generation handheld platform, and not just a gussied-up version of the existing PSP.)

Then there's the matter of when the PSP2 module arrive, and how such it'll cost. My surmisal is that if Sony does expose the PSP2 at Wednesday's event, it module provide us a unclear promulgation pane (most probable "in time for the holidays"), with literal pricing and promulgation dates to be announced at the E3 gaming confab in June.

Personally, I'm pretty jazzed most sight a newborn PSPâ€"particularly digit with dual similarity sticks. The example PSP, of course, exclusive has a single similarity nub, which makes for clumsy gameplay when it comes to first-person shooters.

And yes, a large display (four inches, maybe?) with a bleeding-edge GPU behindhand it would also be a welcome changeâ€"especially compared to those glitchy, artifact-ridden displays on primeval PSP 3000 handsets (one of which I own, by the way).

The existence of always-on 3G connectivity on the newborn PSP is also intriguingâ€"although I wonder, would there be a monthly fee for 3G, or could it be gratis a la the Kindle? (Granted, super-sized mettlesome and recording downloads take up quite a taste more bandwidth than e-books.)

Finally, what most the price tag? Well, the soon-to-be-released Nintendo 3DS module delude for $250 here in the U.S., so I'm guessing the PSP2 module go for at small that much, presented its (rumored) pumped-up processing noesis and (rumored) OLED display … so we strength be conversation $299 here. Yes, that's as such as a PS3 or an Xbox 360, but don't block that it's also cheaper than an unsubsidized Android phone.

So, every that's mitt is to intend the facts (we hope) from Sony, which is slated to hold its advise circumstance at 1 a.m. ET Wednesday. (Rather than place the news in the middle of the night, I'll indite up my impressions in the morning—or after in the morning, I should say.)

Before the mantle rises, though, let's hear from you. What's on your PSP2 desire list? What feature are you dying to seeâ€"and which could you live without? Finally, how such would you be selection to pay?

What We Think We Know About The PSP2 [Kotaku]

â€" Ben Patterson is a profession writer for Yahoo! News.

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