Some more PSX info and first concept model of the PSP from Sony themselves

[Living-In-Clip]

Terrible design. Looks extremely uncomfortable.

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Terrible design. Looks extremely uncomfortable.

Raise the buttons and not flush (e.g. make them exactly like the PS2 Dual Shock controller) keep the screen with a tilt up....and it\'s poyfek!


When can I be mod?

Originally posted by GmanJoe
HA! Aren\'t you glad you\'re wrong this time? $60 is their target. It might be a tad higher....but it\'s a lot less than N-Gage. Jeez....they paid $300! iPod is also $300! It\'s like PSX, NGage and iPod all in one.....for $60! :eek:

How can it be like an iPod when it doesn\'t have at least a 20gb hdd? It can\'t store as much as an iPod by a long shot so I really don\'t see it as competing with the iPod...

[Bobs_Hardware]

Originally posted by GmanJoe
Raise the buttons and not flush (e.g. make them exactly like the PS2 Dual Shock controller) keep the screen with a tilt up....and it\'s poyfek!


When can I be mod?

But how will you hold it?  The buttons are in the middle of the machine, so you\'ll be using your fingertips to support it.  Not your palm..

Originally posted by GmanJoe

When can I be mod?

Your joking right? Forums would go down the crapper if THAT ever happened.

Does this thing play mp3s? Also, what kind of batteries would it use? They should use rechargable phone batteries.

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
But how will you hold it?  The buttons are in the middle of the machine, so you\'ll be using your fingertips to support it.  Not your palm..

Similar to the GB:SP. You\'ll cradle it as if yer pointing your hands like pistols, only the index fingers will curl over the shoulder buttons and yer middle fingers will be curled below it, supporting it.

Looks like a digital camera...

I still think portable gaming is for children... I never seem to be interested in playing videogames when I\'m on the go... I mean, unless I\'m constantly flying around the world on long flights, or on the move I really have no purpose for portable gaming.

Originally posted by fastson
In between PSX and DC..

Gotta love Sony, pushing forward and not holding back (Nintendo)

actually, in many aspects, it could be quite above the PS2 performance wise...

Please. Explain

any word on pricing yet, and battery life?

Vapor, when you hit College you\'ll appreciate these more.  I have an hour between classes to burn, so this will come in handy...  then again I have a laptop and never play game on that, but then again it\'s a work PC and sucks for gaming (1ghz & 512mb RAM, but only an intergrated 16mb video card, thank you very much Toshiba!)

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by theomen
any word on pricing yet, and battery life?

 

$60

http://www.silicon.com/networks/mobile/0,39024665,39116757,00.htm

It\'s only a plan....nothing confirmed.

Inspect a gadget...
 
Sony has outlined plans for a much-anticipated, all-in-one handheld gaming device that includes a digital music and video player and could even act as mobile telephone.

 
Officials of the world\'s largest consumer electronics maker also said Sony will launch a rival to Apple Computer\'s iPod digital music player next year for as little as $60. Sony described a prototype for its PSP gaming device - due out before the end of 2004 - during a presentation to US investors that reiterated plans to restore profitability at the company.

Ken Kutaragi, Sony\'s executive deputy president and head of its gaming business, said "PSP will be the Walkman of the future."

PSP is designed to rival Nintendo\'s Game Boy handheld game player, mobile phone maker Nokia\'s N-Gage wireless gaming device, and Apple\'s iPod and iTunes music download service.

Sony plans to eventually add telecommunication features, Kutaragi told a news conference afterward, lending credence to speculation PSP devices would also serve as mobile phones.

Sony currently envisions a device that looks somewhat similar to Nokia\'s recently introduced N-Gage gaming phone, but with a bigger display that makes it looks more like a handheld television.

The "concept model" showed off by Kutaragi was a one-piece device designed to be grasped in two hands, with a bright, colour screen roughly 4.5 inches in diameter, he said.

"PSP will not be one kind of product," Kutaragi said. Rather, it is a platform of related devices with the capacity to add or subtract features, he said, while stressing that final design details are not expected to be revealed until a later date.

While crediting Apple and its chief executive, Steve Jobs, for the success of the iPod, Sony officials said the PSP would allow consumers to watch music videos as well as listen to digital tunes.

"We are taking on iPod with our new device," another Sony official said. "We are coming at him [Steve Jobs] on that front."

Originally posted by Lord Nicon
Please. Explain

For one, the PSP has a smaller resolution than all consoles out at the moment. This means that the buffers in turn will be smaller and that less pixels need to be \'drawn\' to fill an entire screen. In other words, considering what resolution the PSP has to cover, the fillrate is mighty impressive.

The geometry might be less than what the PS2 is theoretically capabale of, yet we need to remember what the effective rate is in in-game scenarios. PS2 games are close to 20 million polygons/sec today. PSP *may* be able to improve on this thanks to being better optimized. Even if geometry falls to below PS2 games (which it likely will), the GPU (MediaEngine) should do a better job thanks to added pixel effects which the Graphics Synthesizer lacks. Technically, the PSP might be below the PS2, but it should do a better job given the resolution its rendering at and including the modifications to the MediaEngine in features. I\'m sure AntiAliasing will be supported in hardware aswell, giving it yet another advantage.

Definately a step up to Dreamcast and in many aspects above PS2 I expect it to be. Only time will show for sure though, but as of yet, the hardware for a portable is very promising.

Yeah, well I hope they put a cd drive in there that\'s worth a crap instead of the rebfurbished trash they use in the PS2s.  I don\'t have a high opinion of Sony hardware.

im getting goose bumps.

I guess supposed to be having graphics just as good as the PS2.Play movies on them umd\'s.prob connect to the ps2,psx,and or ps3.The possibilities r endless.