Specs of the PSP revealed. I must say, damn! I haven't been looking forward to a system this much since the Sega Genesis back 15 years ago or so...

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>My comments: If they can pull this off with a good 12-20 battery hour period, I'd surely shell out up to 400 bucks for this thing. I tend to talk more about console games, but I really put in about 3 or 4 times as much time on handheld systems than I ever did on console. The games are simpler for the most part, but seem to be more addictive. When you have a system this powerful on your hands there is the possibility for some pretty nice looking games. I'd like to see ports of games like Final Fantasy 8, Vagrant Story, Xenogears, and other titles to the handheld, first of all. The only problem with the system may be the RAM, there is such a small amount that I don't see how it can take advantage of all that power.

Specs:

PSP Specifications:

PSP CPU Core

MIPS R4000 32-bit core
128-bit bus
333MHz
8MB eDRAM main memory
2.6Gbps bus transfer rate
FPU, VFPU (2.6 billion flops)
3D graphics extended instructions
1.2V


PSP Media Engine

MIPS R4000 32-bit core 128-bit bus
2MB eDRAM submemory
90nm CMOS manufacturing process
1.2V


PSP Graphics Core

2MB VRAM
5.3Gbps bus transfer rate
3D curved surface and 3D polygon engine
Support for compressed textures, hardware clipping, morphing, bone, tessellation, bezier, b-spline (NURBS)


Sound Core

VME (Virtual Mobile Engine)
Reconfigurable DSP engine
166MHz
128-bit bus
5 billion operations per second
CODEC capabilities
3D sound, 7.1 channels
Synthesizer, effecter, and other abilities
ATRAC3 plus, AAC, MP3 for audio
1.2V


Media

UMD (Universal Media Disc)
60mm-diameter disc
660nm laser diode
1.8GB capacity (dual-layered disc)
11Mbps transfer rate
AES crypto system
Unique disc ID
Shock proof


Other Specifications

16:9-format widescreen TFT LCD (480x272 pixels, 24-bit full color)
MPEG4 AVC decoder
Wireless LAN (802.11)
IrDA (Infrared Data Association)
USB 2.0
Memory Stick
AV in/out
Lithium ion battery



By Staff, GameSpot [POSTED: 07/29/03 11:07 AM]</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Damn, if that thing comes out a 'reasonable' price it could really shake up the handheld market.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I don't get the RAM, either. Good RAM is really cheap, so they could at least chip in for 32MBs or so.</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm guessing there's a reason for only the 2MB. Expandable memory? How much does the SP have?</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I was saying the 8MB.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Holy shit...I just looked at the disc specs. Wow...talk about technology that I've only seen on sci-fi TV.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>It wouldn't surprise me. They're losing money per playstation 2 sold, and make it back on the software. My question is do they think they can dominate the hand held market like that?</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>*sigh* I post this yesterday, no one responds. Seeker posts this today, everyone looks. My opinion is worth far less than Seek's, guess there's no real reason to live anymore.........</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>bah you posted a link, next time copy and paste the news. :)</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't think it will take over the market share lead from Nintendo, but I would like to see it grab a significant chunk. Just for Competitions sake, plus it will play music, movies etc.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Lazy bitches. I posted the link so you guys would actually read up on what others are actually saying about it and maybe get a better explanation of what the specs really mean...</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>They haven't been losing money on the PS2 for over a year now</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Sony has been making a profit on the PS2 hardware for quite a long time. Nearly two years.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>They'll never be making money on the hardware by itself, but they (SCE) are turning a profit due to their royalties on software and such.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>You're incorrect. Sony made an official announcement two years ago that they were.</div>