Intrested in Psp? Read this first.
By TimNintendo might have had a big handheld holiday with their DS, but Sony has started the New Year off with a bang by unveiling a ton of new info for their upcoming PSP system at the Consumer Electronics Show not one week into 2005
boasting processing power that rivals the PS2 and a set of features that makes your new cell phone look like a Fisher-Price reject, the PSP is obviously packing a lot of punch in its slender frame. But all the spec lists in the world don’t tell the whole story, which I will attempt to do in one simple phrase:
The screen rules.
I’m not kidding. The 4.3 inch LCD screen takes up most of the PSP’s front side, and for very good reason. By way of 480 x 272 resolution and 16.8 million colors, the PSP screen is capable of producing visuals that far exceed what I’ve seen from the other handhelds - including the DS. It even allows for 16:9 aspect ratio, making it feel like a miniature version of a flat-screen TV. And that’s a very, VERY good thing.
According to most of the developers, that high resolution leads to easily programmable graphics since they don’t have to spend so much time smoothing out every single texture. One team even admitted that their good-looking lead character was comprised of only 16 colors not( that’s right 16 COLOR not bit). I don’t know if they will regret such a shortcut, but I sure don’t hope so
You will occasionally forget you’re playing a handheld device rather than a full console. It’s that cool!
What’s not so cool is the fact that Sony still refuses to announce a firm ship date or pricing structure, instead focusing much of its CES debut on the alternative uses of the PSP as a camera (requiring a separate purchase, of course) and MP3 player. With a USB 2.0 port, IPod like headphones, an IR port and full 802.11b Wi-Fi compatibility, you cannot complain that this thing has’nt got enough features. Oh and as for the battery life issue, well, no one can awnser questions about that until it ships out somewhere in spring.
Sony has been dodgy about which titles will officially be available at launch, and I still have no idea what the will be :p but you’ll just have to find that out for youreself.
January 28th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
The PSP? Please, the DS is a lot better than the DS, The DS has more to offer than a PSP. And besides, is it the graphics that really make a game good? Come on, the Nintendo DS has good enough graphics, and they arn’t to far from the PSP’s graphics. The DS is the best!
March 15th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
I personally don’t care about PSP DS etc. 50 cents has 3 tunes in the top 5 in the US: candy shop(1), how we do(4), disco inferno(5)
March 15th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
yeah and who cares about 50 cent? you need to get out more and brush your tail