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First Sony PSP Pictures Revealed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-it-fits-in-the-palm-of-your-hand dept.

iamhassi writes "Pictures of the PSP concept design have shown up on The Register. I'm impressed: when I first heard the screen was 4.5" I was afraid the device would be unusually large compared to the GBA with its 2.9" screen. Obviously those worries were unfounded." Update: 11/06 15:28 GMT by S : A section-specific post from yesterday provided the concept pictures from a different source.

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  1. Scale? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    These pictures have no objects that would indicate exactly how big these things are. How big can we expect this to be? I honestly believe the GBA is doing so well mostly because it's so small..

  2. Re:daddypants seems to be broken.... by buffer-overflowed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Taco must've borrowed the ring of duplication. Anyway, that was a sectioned story, this one isn't, more people will see it besides us game nuts. So I hope people realize this and don't bitch and moan about the dupe. I mean, not many have the ocular fortitude necessary to read the games page. =)

    Anyway here's my comment from that story:
    Disc format, which as I said elsewhere means moving parts. Also means certain tricks won't be easily doable(like rumble) and there's a chance the device will screw up during travel. We'll see if they can work around that.

    New format, which means I'd have to buy all new games for it. Not that big a deal, and I haven't been following it, but the GBA is backwards compatable. How many people own gameboy games and gameboy color games?

    Large size, just to accomidate everything.

    Going to be high cost next to it's competition. Simply because it's more advanced and will be newer.

    Probably memory cards, rather than on-cartridge memory.

    Will need to swap expansions rather than just swapping carts. The neo-geo stayed in existance for years because of the amount of hardware you could shove onto the cart.

    Slower load times, cart over disc usage. We'll see if they can work around that.

    Sony's console hardware has a history of breaking, oh, around just after warranty. I don't expect this to be different.

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