Sony to PSP Coders: Battery Life Your Problem

AssaultOnBattery writes "The fine folks over at GamesIndustry.biz are reporting that Sony has found a unique solution to the problem of battery life on the PSP - making their game developers solve it for them. According to the story, Sony is going to give devs a battery emulator which will tell them if their game is within acceptable power consumption limits."

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Re:no disc streaming?

[xenocide2]

What about seek time? And how far will 32 MB carry you? Is it enough to store a 3d executable, 3d data, and your expectations for sound and music?

Games aren't made by stupid people, but every second they have to spend addressing this issue is time they can't allocate to extra features like multiplayer or a faster subroutine for something like antialiasing. Nobody is doing this now because nobody is doing portable rotational media until just now.

If you can't get more than 2 hours of movies out of it, then I have dismal hopes for the battery life from your average game maker. Just as not every game on the PS2 looks as great as Square's, there will be games that last longer than others.