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Sony To Release PSP Handheld Console In 2004
JayBonci writes "According to News.com, in a news conference before this year's E3, Sony announced its plans to release a new gaming handheld called PSP, slated for release late next year. Presumably, this would be to compete against Nintendo's Gameboy Advance, a clear winner in the handhelds department for years now. The games come on a new media format, half the size of a CD or DVD, holding 1.8 gigs. Other Gameboy competitors such as the Neo-Geo Pocket Color have suffered from small game libraries and the inability to get over the GBC/GBA's entrenched marketshare. Despite all of this, Sony isn't SNK, and obviously has a lot of muscle to push its way to where it wants to be. It will be an interesting fight."
here's a better article; it goes into a bit more detail than the posted one.
According to the actual press release, the battery will be a rechargable lithium-ion type battery, which means no need to buy batteries, as it seems it will be built in.
Ryan T. Sammartino
"Ancora imparo"
The Game Gear used 6 AA batteries. I have one sitting right here in my room. It sure chewed through them quickly.
Wouldn't it be kind of funny if this thing ended up being a PlayStation with a screen, integrated controller, and batteries? That's sure what it sounds like to me. Plus, if they designed it so that it could play PlayStation games that have been copied onto the little disks, then they would have a HUGE library of games already written for it. They would just have to burn them to little DVDs.
I would occasionaly use 5 batteries by sticking a paperclip into one of the slots. The one on the right of the left battery compartment powers the light IIRC. Not putting a battery in there just prevented the light from turning on.
How did Sony with with the PS2? They got into the market far later than all except Microsoft; their hardware is far behind the XBox, and yet the PS2 is 3-to-1 the most popular game console of the current state-of-the-art. Sega, who's technology was often cutting edge and who had a long history in the industry, is now defunct in the hardware market. Nintendo, the oldest of the current crop, has true market force only among young children, relying on their classic intellectual property like Mario. Perhaps I am oversimplifying, but, then, I believe so are you.
They don't seem to be quaking in their boots. read this
-- Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.
Gamers.com has an old article about the EyeToy. They make it sound pretty fun.
Scratched Emulsion
That's totally false. Have you heard of the BlueRoses engine?
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http://www.raylight.it/Blueroses3dagb/blueroses
It's just one of many methods of achieving 3D on the GameBoy Advance. And it's no less *real* 3D than what was achieved on the Saturn or PSX.
There are true 3D games on the GBA as we speak. Some utilize true 3D and even blend them with paralax scrolling. Go look at IGN and you can get a good idea of what the GBA can do in terms of 3D. It's no powerhouse by any means, but it's up there with *early* PSX/Saturn quality in many ways.
Dude, the GBA:SP batteries are removable and easily replacable. Nintendo is even marketing a new, higher capacity battery later on this year. Although, why the hell you'd need it is a mystery, the thing seems to run forever on a single charge.
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YLFI.
Just FYI folks, this guy is a troll. Check out his posting history. Mod accordingly.
Road trip: cigarette lighter socket.
Flight: Accessory outlet
train: Same
You were saying?
Karma: Dyn-o-mite!(mostly affected by Jimmy Walker reading your comments)
The disk size and format (small DVD) sounds like the GameCube format. I beleve that format is a standard, like mini-CD.
The name you're looking for is, oddly enough, mini-DVD. They'll fit in the recessed part of the tray in your DVD drive. Nintendo just uses their own data format on their gamecube discs so they can't be read by PC.
You've been lucky. Accessory outlets are still not available on all (or even most?) flights.
This guy does NOT work for Nintendo. He's more than a troll, he's a fraud. Look at his post history and mod him down.
If you guys care, here is a webpage that shows pictures of the PSP's Universal Media Disc that alleges to hold 1.8 GB.
Check out the GP32 as reported on slashdot before.
um, a good site would be www.gp32x.com
so it doesn't have a gig of removable storage, but it still rocks!
"PS2 is a signifigantly more powerfull machine than the DC was"
Unfortunately, the games do not reflect this. There are actually some DC games that are better than their PS2 counterparts!
Here is a picture from a Japanese site of PSP's 1.8GB media, it's looks to be around the same size as the Gamecube's disc, except it seems it'll come in a caddy of some sort (2.4in in size).
http://www.gc-inside.com/news/103/10367.html
http://www.gc-inside.com/media/psp/05.gif
I for one am glad it'll come with Memorystick, being that there are already great Memorystick accesories such as digital camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11b, and even a prototype TV tuner.
Compare almost any first gen PS1 game with one of the last gen PS1 games to see what I mean. They almost look like they are for totally different hardware platforms.
The first couple generations of games wrote to hardware only through the PSX BIOS, and PSX programming resembled programming for a general-purpose computer. Sony didn't open up the register-level interface until about two years into the original PlayStation's life. Thus, a fellow could almost consider the early PS1 and the later PS1 two different consoles.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Yes, it's the GP32 that has a 320x240 screen (and stereo sound and a 133MHZ CPU and uses SMC cards instead of cartidges and...)