More PSP Details

Rew

http://www.consoleconspiracy.com/News/archives/2004_09.html#000100

Hardware
- The PSP will be a modern game console with capabilites matching or beating the PS2
- The PSP will hook up directly to your PC with a USB 2.0 Connection
- It will feature 10 Digital buttons including a anolog Joystick
- Features a color 480X272 24 bit screen with NO video out
- 1800 MhaLion (Battery which can be replaced by the user)
- Launch accessories should be Camera, GPS, and Keyboard
- 802.11B LAN (can play with others via P2P or traditional Client/TCP servers
- Only one memory stick (up to 1GB, 1.8 Mbps Transfer)
- They joked it wil have No Dolby Digital out, just stero
- The UMD will go in the back of the PSP from the Top.


Software

- Closed Hardware (API Programming)

3D Hardware
- Display List for programming
- Clipping (Hardware enabled)
- Bezier
- Morph
- Pixel Pipeline

Pugsley

I heavily doubt it will match the PS2..... if it did they would hardly only put a 480x272 screen on it.

Ciaran500

They said it was 80% of the power of the PS2

smoke.me.a.kipper

those specs look so impressive, i might have to buy both the DS and the psp

projectmayhem

i wont be getting the DS (i'm not a nintendo fan anyway), but the psp looks so sweet. get on google and search for the gran turismo screens and metal gear acid screens, awesome stuff.

l3rian

802.11B LAN (can play with others via P2P or traditional Client/TCP servers

thats going to rock, psp is looking good

the ds is looking rubbish, an extra screen for overview maps :rolleyes:

Stormfox1020

I wouldnt go making accusations like that Brian, you should'nt judge a book by its cover. Lets wait until both systems come out then we argue over which is the better system.

monument

l3rian wrote:

thats going to rock, psp is looking good

the ds is looking rubbish, an extra screen for overview maps :rolleyes:

Is the DS not going to have wireless Lan - or was it canned?

Let’s wait until both are out for a while so we can argue which has the best games - oh, no, wait – now, which has a load of games ready to play once it’s released? It is about the games, or should we start talking about how well it can play films, music, switch on your dishwasher, or wash your car - on the games board?

Zhane

Ill probably end up buying both. but i cant wait for the PSP i think IMO that it looks the best out of the two. but we will have to wait and see wont we.

Rew

monument wrote:

Is the DS not going to have wireless Lan - or was it canned?

It will have WLAN and your right we will probs have to wait and see when both are out. If the battery life on the PSP is bad (been suggested it will only be an hour or 2) then its doomed, price of games and extras will have a big effect on both I reckon.

Jim

Eh, match or beat the PS2? Highly doubtful. After I read that I'm not going to go by any of the specs given there.

Rew

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

Eh, match or beat the PS2? Highly doubtful. After I read that I'm not going to go by any of the specs given there.

Why do people keep saying it wont match or beat the PS2? There is no reason why it couldn't even in such a small form factor, PS2 arn't exactly amazing by todays standards aswell.

projectmayhem

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

Eh, match or beat the PS2? Highly doubtful. After I read that I'm not going to go by any of the specs given there.

the psp is pretty much entirely comprised of ps2 hardware - made smaller. basically it's the japanese doing what they do best - making existing things smaller and more efficient.

wether it does big business depends on it's price, and the price of the umd games/movies.
as for battery life, it'll be 2 hours for movies and something similar for gaming. however, sony plan to release some peripheral which'll boost the life by double or triple the time.

projectmayhem

official psp details on power:

Movies: 2-2.5 hours
Games: 4-10 hours
Music: 4 hours

Retr0gamer

Those power details don´t sound great. They are worse than Game Gear battery life. And the 4-10 hours for games is nothing short of vague.

Brock

cant wait to pick up this baby in nyc when is american release date does anybody know
Brock

amp

Rew wrote:

http://www.consoleconspiracy.com/News/archives/2004_09.html#000100

Hardware
- The PSP will be a modern game console with capabilites matching or beating the PS2
- The PSP will hook up directly to your PC with a USB 2.0 Connection
- It will feature 10 Digital buttons including a anolog Joystick
- Features a color 480X272 24 bit screen with NO video out
- 1800 MhaLion (Battery which can be replaced by the user)
- Launch accessories should be Camera, GPS, and Keyboard
- 802.11B LAN (can play with others via P2P or traditional Client/TCP servers
- Only one memory stick (up to 1GB, 1.8 Mbps Transfer)
- They joked it wil have No Dolby Digital out, just stero
- The UMD will go in the back of the PSP from the Top.


Software

- Closed Hardware (API Programming)

3D Hardware
- Display List for programming
- Clipping (Hardware enabled)
- Bezier
- Morph
- Pixel Pipeline

Great googly moogly! Spanking.

honru

projectmayhem wrote:

official psp details on power:

Movies: 2-2.5 hours
Games: 4-10 hours
Music: 4 hours

Yeah, they don't sound great.

Perhaps ahead of its time?

Lex_Diamonds

For something thats meant to be on a par or better than a ps2, the shots of Metal Gear Acid look decidedly simplistic.

Rew

Brock wrote:

cant wait to pick up this baby in nyc when is american release date does anybody know
Brock

Q1 or Q2 next year so dont hold your breath. There are alot of rumours that the release will slip further and further behind shedual as time goes on.

projectmayhem

Rew wrote:

Q1 or Q2 next year so dont hold your breath. There are alot of rumours that the release will slip further and further behind shedual as time goes on.

there are already working versions being given to select members of the press to play around with (OPM2UK for example)... if it gets delayed it'll be a minor delay

Rew

There were working versions at E3 dosnt mean anything. The devlopment kits have been slow to ship and if there is no software there is no launch. The kit that the press get there hands on may not even be full 1.0 hardware We will just have to wait and see.

Placebo

4-10 gaming = crapness.

Rew

PSP is getting priced in Japan at $300, so double the cost of a DS...

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1241572157292348/

We think he may have put his foot in his mouth when he let slip that the MSRP for the Sony’s portable PSP gaming machine will be 33000Y (just over 300 of our American dollars), but we thank Sony’s German Managing Director anyway—we live for these mistakes. Since Nintendo announced its DS will be priced at $149 yesterday morning, Sony will have quite a fight selling the PSP at double the price. We reported that Electronics Boutique was taking pre-orders for the PSP for $299 back in July and, hey, maybe they did know what they were doing. We feel comforted in knowing that those analysts claiming the PSP would be five bills were totally wrong.

Rew

Few pics and details coming from the Tokyo Games Show





http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/tgs-more-sony-psp-021949.php

There's a boatload more images from the Tokyo Game Show coming through (more than just that remote, I'm saying), although they're mostly just shots of the PSP. I thought this one was precious, though. No word if Sony plans to sell all PSPs with an attached girl on a chain.

Allegedly there are 44 PSPs available for play at TGS, and one thing the author of this article
pointed out is that the demonstration units were all playing games - there were no demo units playing video (unlike at E3).

http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/tgs-sony-psp-remote-021947.php


Sony PSP in-line remote

Rew

10 Hours of Music
8 Hours of Games
2.5 Hours of Video

http://www.3dnewz.com/forumz/showthread.php?s=&postid=259965

Retr0gamer

That 8 hour battery life still seems vague. The paragraph underneath says to me 'if the processor isn't too taxed by the games then it might be 8 hours. Realistically its less'.

Looks very big but the widescreen is yummy. Hope its better protected from scratches than the GBA screen.

Placebo

its a bit big for the old pocket no ? scangers dream come true.

Kevok

I'd be lying if I said i didn't think it was cool.

It's one thing to carry a 300 - 400 euro ipod around in your pocket. But to play this thing even on a bus..... it better come with some sort of thievery insurance.

Rew

Here's an article that claims the PSP is going to come in 3 deals:

http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/rumor-sony-psp-pricing-packages-022583.php

* PSP Package 1: $199.99
* 1 Rechargable Battery
* 1 Charger (for the battery)
* 32MB MemoryStick duo

* PSP Package 2: $299.99
* 1 Rechargable Battery
* 1 Charger
* 64MB MemoryStick Duo
* Strap with built-in Headphones
* Camera

* PSP Package 3: $ 349.99
* 1 Rechargable battery
* 1 Charger
* 256MB MemoryStick Duo
* Strap with built-in Headphones
* Camera
* Aluminium Case
* GPS Device
* Translation Software (TalkMan)

May or may not be true...

evad_lhorg

it's not going to be that cheap. they wont throw all that stuff in. they know they can rip fools off more for memory sticks and the likes. its gonna be like the ipod except i dont think it will do well. music is different. with an ipod you can have all your music you like on onelittle thing and you listen to it wherever. you wont see people walking around with these things, sure people dont even play gbas in public really. ive only seen a handful of people,since the gba came out, playing on the bus. people will play their playstation when they go home not one the move for about ten minutes and then have to stop cause the battery might go.

evad_lhorg

It's looking HUGE in those pictures as well. i like the idea of the bigger screen thuogh but as mr.freak scenery says "ahead of it's time maybe?" i think it is.

Rew

evad_lhorg wrote:

It's looking HUGE in those pictures as well. i like the idea of the bigger screen thuogh but as mr.freak scenery says "ahead of it's time maybe?" i think it is.

The pic of it that looks huge (shows the back of the unit) is just the way the picture was taken and the lens that was used. It is big just not as big as it looks there.

Retr0gamer

Or else she has extremely small hands.

ghostdogkilla

Battery times will always be the absolute lowest put in the "official" specs and probably even less than that. So Id expect 4 hours tops from games which is ****e.

Rew

Battery times sound like they will cary a bit with games.

The prices I listed abouve seem to have been proved fake in a few places around the net.

honru

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/10/04/news_6109524.html

Sony's PSP is at "high risk" of a substantial delay--into next year for Japan, and perhaps all the way back to November 2005 for the US market. That's the word from two separate memos sent on consecutive business days from noted industry analysts.

On Friday, PJ McNealy of American Technology Research published a report that questioned whether the PSP software shown at the Tokyo Game Show--many of which were explicitly stated as only being 50 to 60 percent complete--would be ready for the Japanese launch of the system, currently slated for this December. "The launch of the PSP in Japan this holiday season continues to be at risk," wrote McNealy. "If [Sony] misses the PSP Japan launch schedule, it could affect the announced March quarter North American launch and would be considered a negative to the video game publishers."

McNealy went on to describe two "likely" scenarios for the Japanese launch of the system. The first was a December launch with a "disappointing" launch lineup of "approximately five or fewer titles." This would seemingly contradict Electronic Arts' announcement that Tiger Woods and Need For Speed would launch alongside the PSP in Japan and the US, although McNealy did note in his report that "not all targeted launch titles were likely shown at TGS."

The second scenario posed by McNealy was a delay into January or later. If said delay, McNealy notes, was entirely software-related, it might not affect the March launch in the US. But if there are indeed "hardware issues such as battery management," McNealy sees the US launch window slipping into June.

Meanwhile, Piper Jaffray & Co. paints an even gloomier picture for the PSP's launch ambitions. In a report released today, the securities firm expects the handheld "to launch later than the current March 2005 expectation. First, Sony is usually late with most product introductions… and we are hearing that the platform has other issues such as thermal problems (transistors are running very hot) and a very short battery life (90 minutes) that will almost certainly delay the launch." All this points to a November 2005 launch in the US (possibly alongside the next Xbox system), the report concludes.

honru

Release date of March confirmed for the PSP in Europe.

http://news.spong.com/detail/news.asp?prid=7930

We can reveal that the PSP, Sony’s ever-controversial handheld PlayStation 2 derivative, will be released into Europe towards the end of March 2005.

The news comes following our discussions with several large media owners in the UK, all of which have seen considerable bookings for the PSP throughout the month, with Sony stating to them that the machine will hit then.

“The console is launching in March, at least in the UK. Either that or Sony’s marketing department has decided to rewrite the rulebook,” we were told by one source this afternoon.

All of which makes for a somewhat thrilling showdown between Nintendo and SCEE, with both firms planning to release their respective next-generation handhelds within weeks of each other.

Rew

f®eak s&#169 wrote: »

Release date of March confirmed for the PSP in Europe.

http://news.spong.com/detail/news.asp?prid=7930

Battery life is petty much confirmed to be as low as 2 or less hours for any decent game so unless they sort that its going to flop....

Jim

It wont flop, the mindless public will still buy it without researching, just because its Sony.

It annoys me when people don't look into things properly before they make purchase. I can imagine how annoying it will be when a few weeks after the launch Game shops will be bombarded with people bringing it back saying the battery is broken.

BArra

any more updates on it?

Hugh Hefner

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

It wont flop, the mindless public will still buy it without researching, just because its Sony.

It annoys me when people don't look into things properly before they make purchase. I can imagine how annoying it will be when a few weeks after the launch Game shops will be bombarded with people bringing it back saying the battery is broken.

I don't think it will flop but on paper it looks like the DS will do consistently better over a large time frame. I've noticed that Playstationers tend not to be hardcore gamers (not that I'm saying there aren't any) and so might not be interested in a handheld or might buy it but after the novelty wears of they'll stop using it and go back to their casual PS2 gaming. This is, in my opinion, for one main reason (although there are others):

1. Alot of people when buying a console (especially younger gamers) are more swayed by it's popularity/the fact their friends have it/the (admittedly) excellent advertising and don't consider game quality or originality that much. It's a lot like people buying an iPod instead of a Zen because of the iPod's image (I admittedly own an iPod). Basically it's better graphics = better everything with them.

The fact that the DS has already received 2,000,000 preorders in Japan alone compared with a lesser number for the PSP I feel typifies this situation.

Am I the only one who thinks the PSP looks too bulky. You can't quite see it in the pics but if you look close it's very deep and looks heavy.

I'm a Nintendo nut and wouldn't touch a PSP will a 7m science poll on principle alone.

IrishMike

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Am I the only one who thinks the PSP looks too bulky

If by bulky you mean absolutly ****ing huge then yes i agree.
How on earth you would call this a portable games machine is beyond me.
Not viable option for me im afraid. Reminds me of the very first nokia fones that
you could use to bludgeon a person to death with if the battery ever ran out.
If the reviews of the ds are good i will probably opt for that, mainly due to the
backward compatibility with old gba advance games.