First PSP details: From napkin to…
Another SCE PowerPoint presentation – Fresh details inside
Earlier we brought you news that Sony Computer Entertainment Japan was readying a PlayStation conference, looking at new hardware. It could have been a bigger memory card. We could have been disappointed. Again.
And in a way we were, as SCE again threw up a set of spurious claims relating to its new handheld baby.
In an all-new exciting presentation, the following details were revealed:
3D-CG Game
7.1ch Audio, 3D Sound
ATRAC3 plus, AAC, MP3 for Music
AVC (MPEG 4) for Picture/Movie
16:9 Widescreen TFT LCD
Embedded Wireless LAN (802.11)
Li-ion Battery
Extension for GPS, Digital Tuner...
So there you have it.
It’s kind of a games machine, that really, totally, is entirely a media player. It has 7.1 Dolby output, and an MPEG 4 decoder. It will play movies very well indeed. It has a battery. It will also play MP3 music very well.
But, of course, what you all want to know is how well it plays games, right?
The merest mention of gaming came in the news that the device will be shown at E3 next year, with the initial software line-up being revealed at the Tokyo Game Show 2004.
A worldwide launch was also confirmed for Q4 of next year.
As far as gaming prowess is concerned, Sony Stalwart Ken Kutaragi offered the following preliminary specifications:
Media Engine:
MIPS R4000 32-bit core
333MHz, 1.2V
128-bit bus
2MB eDRAM sub memory
90nm CMOS manufacturing process
Graphics Core 1:
2MB VRAM
5.3Gbps bus bandwidth
3D Curved Surface + 3D Polygon
Compressed Texture
Hardware Clipping, Morphing, Bone
Hardware Tessellator
Bezier, B-Spline (NURBS)
- reduce program, data,
- reduce memory footprint & bus traffic
Graphics Core 2:
Rendering Engine + Surface Engine
256-bit bus, 166MHz, 1.2V
2MB VRAM
5.3Gbps bus bandwidth
664M pixels/sec fill rate
Max. 33M polygons / sec
24-bit full colour
It also supports wireless LAN, good for all kinds of things, especially multiplayer gaming. And shifting media files around of course…
Again, most analysts will read in this news what is arguably Sony’s clearest indication to date of its PlayStation strategy: PlayStation is no longer a gaming machine. The PSP is not a portable gaming device. The next PlayStation incarnation will be a multimedia delivery box with gaming capabilities. The PSP is a portable multimedia player with gaming capabilities.
As to whether this will prove to be a good thing remains to be seen.
Everything PSP and PlayStation 3 right here, as it breaks.
And in a way we were, as SCE again threw up a set of spurious claims relating to its new handheld baby.
In an all-new exciting presentation, the following details were revealed:
3D-CG Game
7.1ch Audio, 3D Sound
ATRAC3 plus, AAC, MP3 for Music
AVC (MPEG 4) for Picture/Movie
16:9 Widescreen TFT LCD
Embedded Wireless LAN (802.11)
Li-ion Battery
Extension for GPS, Digital Tuner...
So there you have it.
It’s kind of a games machine, that really, totally, is entirely a media player. It has 7.1 Dolby output, and an MPEG 4 decoder. It will play movies very well indeed. It has a battery. It will also play MP3 music very well.
But, of course, what you all want to know is how well it plays games, right?
The merest mention of gaming came in the news that the device will be shown at E3 next year, with the initial software line-up being revealed at the Tokyo Game Show 2004.
A worldwide launch was also confirmed for Q4 of next year.
As far as gaming prowess is concerned, Sony Stalwart Ken Kutaragi offered the following preliminary specifications:
Media Engine:
MIPS R4000 32-bit core
333MHz, 1.2V
128-bit bus
2MB eDRAM sub memory
90nm CMOS manufacturing process
Graphics Core 1:
2MB VRAM
5.3Gbps bus bandwidth
3D Curved Surface + 3D Polygon
Compressed Texture
Hardware Clipping, Morphing, Bone
Hardware Tessellator
Bezier, B-Spline (NURBS)
- reduce program, data,
- reduce memory footprint & bus traffic
Graphics Core 2:
Rendering Engine + Surface Engine
256-bit bus, 166MHz, 1.2V
2MB VRAM
5.3Gbps bus bandwidth
664M pixels/sec fill rate
Max. 33M polygons / sec
24-bit full colour
It also supports wireless LAN, good for all kinds of things, especially multiplayer gaming. And shifting media files around of course…
Again, most analysts will read in this news what is arguably Sony’s clearest indication to date of its PlayStation strategy: PlayStation is no longer a gaming machine. The PSP is not a portable gaming device. The next PlayStation incarnation will be a multimedia delivery box with gaming capabilities. The PSP is a portable multimedia player with gaming capabilities.
As to whether this will prove to be a good thing remains to be seen.
Everything PSP and PlayStation 3 right here, as it breaks.
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