Sony PSP details revealed

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In the PlayStation Meeting 2003, Sony Computer Entertainment revealed details and specifications for its upcoming handheld, the PSP. SCE described the PSP as the "21st-century Walkman," showing confidence in the company's upcoming product, which utilizes a number of high-end components. The PSP will consist of two microprocessors, an advanced sound engine, a 3D graphics engine, a 4.5-inch 16:9-format TFT LCD screen, and a number of connection capabilities.

The PSP will run under two 32-bit MIPS R4000 microprocessors, described by SCE president Ken Kutaragi as each having 10 times the clock speed of the PlayStation’s CPU and the same amount of power as the PlayStation 2's CPU. One of the microprocessors will be used as the CPU, and the other will be utilized as an engine dedicated to handling media such as movies and music with its own 2MB of memory. Although the PSP's main memory will be 8MB, Kutaragi commented that it is an extraordinary volume for a handheld game console. In general, all the components used in the PSP are designed for low energy consumption since it is a portable device, and the microprocessors feature a low-voltage (1.2V) design.

News source: GameSpot

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(3 replies) #1 philmcneal on 29 Jul 2003 - 22:01

yowzers i ain't paying 500 dollar canadian for that... I'll use my dell laptop

#1.1 hobsgrg on 29 Jul 2003 - 23:02

where did u get that price from?

#1.2 RauL on 30 Jul 2003 - 23:23

This (PSP) is what the GamBoy Advance should have been from the beginnin. Not a low powered SNES cut down version with just 2 buttons( how ur gonna play MK with just 2 buttons ) ! ! ! That was in his time the Sega NOMAD (8 years before) , and the Sega GameGear 11 years before the gameboy advance. I think they were as good if not better that that mega hyped GBA, jus a decade ago. A portable N64 would have been somethin...
I think even the Atari Lynx was better . Besides the GameGear and the Nomad had both TV support.

Ahhhh memories . . .

#1.3 epple on 01 Aug 2003 - 02:22

my gamegear still rocks.

(8 replies) #2 jerry on 29 Jul 2003 - 22:13

Boycott PS2 and related products...its old technology that needs to die.

Xbox is way multi-purpose console. Not sure about Phantom, might wait to confirm when its out.

#2.1 gameguy on 29 Jul 2003 - 22:22

i totally agree. but i think the phantom is just what it's name conveys.

#2.2 imtoomuch on 29 Jul 2003 - 22:26

XBox is a cheap PC.

#2.3 King Mustard on 29 Jul 2003 - 22:33

And that's a bad thing?

#2.4 sodapop on 29 Jul 2003 - 23:04

Yes, It's not very innovative for a company that likes to innovate...

#2.5 macrosslover on 29 Jul 2003 - 23:12

lol honestly that's the first time i heard somebody says MS innovates. i'll be honest maybe they aren't perfect innovators but they are perfect at improving an existing idea.

#2.6 theh0g on 30 Jul 2003 - 07:26

Compacting PS2 into a small box and adding a screen is a piece of cake for oyu guys, huh? And what's so multi-purpose about XBOX? It does the same PS2 does, oh except it can't play divx (yet).

And what did MS do with their xbox, they just assembled a PC, modified OS a bit and called it a console. It's like writing your own explorer.exe and calling it a console. They didn't even bother to make it a normal size, it looks like VCR from 1980's.

#2.7 Fedr0 on 30 Jul 2003 - 11:10

You obviously aren't informed... Xbox PLAYS divx, xvid and ogm...

#2.8 tHaCuBe on 30 Jul 2003 - 13:49

haha that ones funny, xbox does alot more than ps2 can, can you mod your ps2 and burn your games directly to its harddrive, built in lan support for network games, hd to save your games, and yea the size is a little bigger than the others but wait for ps3, i bet itll be as big or bigger if theyre putting in what they say they are

#3 Mav Phoenix on 29 Jul 2003 - 22:20

Blah, they should've just incorporated this stuff into the Clie.

#4 gameguy on 29 Jul 2003 - 22:20

QUOTE

The PSP will run under two 32-bit MIPS R4000 microprocessors... each having 10 times the clock speed of the PlayStation’s CPU

are they trying to kill the PS2?

edit: PLAYSTATION CPU. not ps2. LOL

(4 replies) #5 DKAngel on 29 Jul 2003 - 22:21

arnt we all lucky that Xbox sucks complete donkey balls

#5.1 gameguy on 29 Jul 2003 - 22:24

no, you're thinking gamecube

#5.2 kev64 on 29 Jul 2003 - 22:56

No, you're thinking PlayStation Poo.

#5.3 Solarix on 30 Jul 2003 - 02:36

i second that ^

#5.4 SecretAgentMan on 30 Jul 2003 - 04:37

Ah, A PSWho? fanboy who likes donkey balls.

(1 reply) #6 BroChaos on 29 Jul 2003 - 22:52

are there any pictures?

#6.1 JMA_PN on 30 Jul 2003 - 00:05

Except fan pics (exist?), NO.

#7 Liquid on 29 Jul 2003 - 23:44

NICE NICE, all u remember, shure u think xbox may be better, but look at the size of it! God my dreamcast, ps2, and snes all together = out to be the same size.

PSP is gonna be tiny and has all that power! WOW!

(1 reply) #8 dheaddy on 29 Jul 2003 - 23:49

jeez, this does seem powerful for a handheld. lets just hope it doesnt turn out to be a brick sized 'portable' eh

#8.1 blackice912 on 30 Jul 2003 - 00:40

It's probably as thick as the original "mobile phone"

#9 Opio on 30 Jul 2003 - 01:15

Take the PSP's spec numbers and divide by 10. That's how Sony measures their upcoming products' capability.. they exaggerate a bit

Think (a more) mobile PSone.

#10 dangman on 30 Jul 2003 - 03:14

It's all about Nintendo..

#11 Joshie on 30 Jul 2003 - 04:15

It's interesting to note that Nintendo is intrigued by what sort of competition Sony may offer...

While over here in the USA, this reminds me somewhat of how smaller companies freaked out and went sue-happy everytime MS elbowed into their market.

I think it says a lot that competition seems slightly less violent in Japan than it does over here.

#12 perochan on 30 Jul 2003 - 04:15

the PSP designs will not be revealed until E3 2004... so... good luck waiting.

#13 Zerosignull on 30 Jul 2003 - 09:29

hmm ... the originall psx processor was 33mhz so the pso is going to run at 333mhz. i carnt see the baterrys lasting verylong. will be cool to play 3d games on the move though ... tekken ne one

Also for all you X-Box fanboys out there. the ps2 would actually be more powerfull if it wernt crippled by sony by not having much ram. i dont think the emotion engine made it into the ps2 in its entirety ... shame that

#14 Keito on 30 Jul 2003 - 10:46

PS3 will ownt the XBox 2

and I can't wait till the PSP

(1 reply) #15 forster on 30 Jul 2003 - 11:21

Xbox owns PS2? Keep dreaming

#15.1 nFHQ|MaTrIx on 30 Jul 2003 - 11:38

damn i know, wonder how much gates pays em

(1 reply) #16 eilegz on 30 Jul 2003 - 16:25

even gamecube kick xbox ass xbox is a cheap PC with a lot of fps games just like a pc nothing cool about it if u think that nintendo sucks its because u never tried zelda or any other nintendo games tghat in fact is "FUNNY" anyways i like gba and i expect that sony PSP will go down just like neo geo pocket or sega game gear LOL

#16.1 epple on 01 Aug 2003 - 02:27

punctuation marks, anyone?

#17 Chokuto on 30 Jul 2003 - 17:33

XPOS, the xbox has crap for games. no GT series or FF series. Everyone I know who loves the Xbox loves their PC more than they did any console. The XBox is NOTHING BUT A PC WITH CONSOLE GAMES. Most dissapointing console evar. Halo is all I have EVER been jelous of and I wanted it way back when it was announced for the PC way before Microsoft bought Bungie. Oh and BTW for you guys that will say I am just a MS hater, wrong not only do I love Microsoft I work for them. They just decided to play in a ring where they are far out classed. Play games not systems, and the XBox has not enough for me to warrent to buy one.

(3 replies) #18 Homie on 30 Jul 2003 - 17:37

now now, stop this flame war, ps2 pwns, xbox pwns, gamecube pwns. They all have their good traits. I like my ps2's games, I like my xbox's games, and i like my gamecube games, stop saying one is better than the other, its just personal preference

#18.1 Cygoku on 30 Jul 2003 - 18:40

I second that ^ !!

Cygoku

#18.2 memodude on 31 Jul 2003 - 02:56

Well said!

On pockets - some say GBA own, some say PSP (will) own, some say <insert name here> own. On consoles, some say PCs own, some say xboxes own, some say PS ones own, some say PS2s own, some say GameCubes own, some say N64s own, some say Dreamcasts own, some say old SEGA systems own, some say <insert name here> owns.

So?

#18.3 ynkephnx on 31 Jul 2003 - 07:38

i definately agree with that, all are great in their own way... you really don't have to bash the other consoles because you are a fanboy... really idiotic... btw, xbox sucks

j/k hehe

#19 NeoMasamune on 30 Jul 2003 - 22:40

i want one!

(3 replies) #20 lilgreg70 on 31 Jul 2003 - 00:36

Personally I love all games and consoles in any form, I have every console from atari to the XBOX (You can imagine I dont play my old consoles like atari and snes anymore because the GFX are horrid and they make my eyes burn). I like my xbox better because in my P.O.V, it has more potential then any other console currently availible. I pretty much love going to blockbuster and renting games only to come home and copy them then return them within hours. Anyway, I'm not going to waste my time and try to argue with you kiddies about "oh wow my xbox pwns your gamecube!!! YAY!" no, they are all created with one thought in mind and that's demand. The more and more we as consumers demand games, the more big companies are going to jump into the scene to embark on what they think is a better oppurtunity to make more money and that's by creating a better and faster machine to run those games. Hell, I'm pretty surprised phillips or even panasonic doesn't have a console out. Also remember, these consoles currently for sale are only in the beginning stages. For example, I had a new erricson cellphone, a very TINY cellphone which was so light I forgot I was holding it in my hand and probably accidently let lose in the mall. So take the example giving and look at the trends of most electronics from within I say the past 10 years and that trend is they start out as this king-sized object you hate to even look at or pick up for this matter and they have down-sized into a little breaking object that most of the time you soon forget you have or is holding, like my cellphone. Consoles will continue to get smaller (xbo

and we'll continue to pay the high prices for them for one reason and that is we love gaming. Picking a console is a personal affair and each is chosen by what you think will suit your gaming needs.

#20.1 Dessimat0r on 31 Jul 2003 - 02:31

Paragraphs are your friend.

#20.2 SecretAgentMan on 31 Jul 2003 - 04:25

LOL.

#20.3 lilgreg70 on 31 Jul 2003 - 17:55

I'm not a very good writer, lol

(1 reply) #21 memodude on 31 Jul 2003 - 03:01

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IMHO, I think the Phantom is going to blow, but thats just IMO, a lot of people are looking forward to it.

I just think, the Phantom is just a PC running Windows XP that's only input is the phantom.net service and where bad things happen to it if you open the box. Come on! - the Phantom is more of a PC than the xbox is...and someone will just devise an ethernet CD-ROM drive so you can put software on it. :-)

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#21.1 lucasvanos on 31 Jul 2003 - 10:34

wtf?

#22 altontowersmania on 01 Aug 2003 - 09:37

God sake man, xbox is a big beast but it dosnt f**king matter about the size of it, its wat it produces, excellent games with high graphical content, no other console can do xbox's job. dont you guys find it funny how no 1 ever sticks up for gamecube anymore, caz its floped, that was the biggest waste of money ever!

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