New PSM - New PSP info

[Captain Vegetable]

Nothing about battery life. Just a pic of a supposed 3D model using the PSP hardware . . . a pic that I've scanned, but can't seem to get it to attatch.

[Captain Vegetable]

That's it!

[MechDeus]

Nice. But if this things runs like a Zodiac then I hope there's nothing but 2D games on the way.

[Drewbacca]

Wow that's some great processing if it's real. But i'd rather have crappy looking polygons and more juice than vice versa.

[jarrod]

so its bassicaly a portable ps 1?

More like a portable Dreamcast in real world performance actually. The downsides will be battery life (3-6 hours estimated) and pricing (48000 yen for Japan and between £200-300 for Europe are the unofficial numbers being quoted, expect $299 in America). Not that I care, so long as Namco/Capcom/Konami/Sega/Koei/SCEI deliver the goods I'll buy one.

[AaronChance]

It's not the same amount of polys. What tesselation does is multiply the amount of polys in a model to smooth out its edges. It could be that the devs make a low poly model in the game on the left and the PSP tesselates that model on the fly. So it limits devs to some degree (since they'll have to make models that tesselate well), but it'll allow the PSP to display more polys than it would be able to otherwise.

Or so I'm guessing from the limited info.

[Grave]

If the battery life sucks that much, I'm not interested. The reason I love my GBASP is because it plays fun games and has an amazingly small footprint when I want to drop it in my pocket and go, and the rechargable battery holds a damn long charge, backlight included.

Even if PSP has awesome software, that's not a ton of life on the low estimate. I mean, it's not when I was 10, where I'd feel fine with lugging around a huge plastic case for my boat-sized Game Gear and the AC adapter, car adapter, and battery pack I needed to keep it running whenever we were going to visit family for the weekend.

I like to think it'll last closer to the 6 hour mark, which is more than enough for one charge, I'd think. But if it's not, I imagine there could be trouble.

I'm very interested in this machine, but I don't think it's going to flat-out kill Game Boy like some people are hoping.

[Jeremy]

That looks very groovy, but if it is saddled with a 3-6 hour battery life, then I'll snatch one up when they hit $150 or less.

[Wildkat]

Sony prelaunch hype=


wait for the real hardware until its time to pass any judgement.

[jarrod]

I like to think it'll last closer to the 6 hour mark, which is more than enough for one charge, I'd think. But if it's not, I imagine there could be trouble.

I'm thinking Sony will probably release a larger capacity battery seperately (as Nintendo is for GBA). Also, we'll probably see different PSP models & revisions over time, cutting costs and lengthening batteries. Initially though, yeah it sucks.

I'm very interested in this machine, but I don't think it's going to flat-out kill Game Boy like some people are hoping.

Agreed. Things are going to be harder for Sony than people expect. A lot hinges on everything going perfectly...