First Sony PSP Pictures Revealed 257
iamhassi writes "Pictures of the PSP concept design have shown up on The Register. I'm impressed: when I first heard the screen was 4.5" I was afraid the device would be unusually large compared to the GBA with its 2.9" screen. Obviously those worries were unfounded." Update: 11/06 15:28 GMT by S : A section-specific post from yesterday provided the concept pictures from a different source.
daddypants seems to be broken.... (Score:3, Informative)
Mike
Re:DAMN YOU SONY! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Scale? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Uh.. battery life? (Score:4, Informative)
Some other pictures (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Scale? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Some other pictures (Score:2, Informative)
Sony gives Microsoft the finger (Score:5, Informative)
Anyone notice the lack of WMA support? Obviously Sony is out to compete hard against Microsoft (who recently dropped to #3 in the console wars. Sony's still #1). And with the PS3 slated to include Linux support, maybe the PSP will be hackable too.
Re:Uh.. battery life? (Score:2, Informative)
Reported on IGN [ign.com] among other places.
more photos (Score:5, Informative)
Handheld Market could be hotting up soon (Score:3, Informative)
Besides, the Zodiac Tapwave [theregister.co.uk] (info about the system) looks likely to be the next hackable, multi-purpose handheld...
Re:daddypants seems to be broken.... (Score:2, Informative)
Beyond what the previous poster stated, Nintendo has occasionally stated that they try to work around the load times to make them appear much smaller than they actually are (ie pop up something for you to look at like an animation/FMV rather than just a loading screen). Not to mention that the GC discs are written from the outside edge of the disc rather than the inside to make more of the information available at higher speeds (since most optical drives read faster at the outside edge of the disc).
Mini-discs actually cause more problems with loading times than they help, since there isn't as much of a distance between the outside and inside edges of the disc, so you have to spin the disc faster to get the same read-times from the outside edge of a smaller disc that you would get from the outside edge of a normal-sized DVD or CD. The only exception, of course, is that you can't put as much data on a smaller disc, so you can't have as much data to load (though, of course, no current console has enough RAM to buffer an entire GC disc anyway).
Re:daddypants seems to be broken.... (Score:3, Informative)
You emphasized the wrong words there. I would have said that YOU have to do significant work. The bike wheel, on the other hand, keeps on spinning quite rapidly even with no further work input.