[?] How Does This Compare To The Psp?

[steventrouble]

Let's say I were to develop Tekken 6, exactly as it is on the PSP, but specifically for this console. Would it run just as well as on the PSP, if not better?

Edit: Also, I'm sure this has been asked, but could the Pandora have an App store, so full-on commercial games can be made for lucrative profits?

 

[Alec]

Let's say I were to develop Tekken 6, exactly as it is on the PSP, but specifically for this console. Would it run just as well as on the PSP, if not better?

Well, the PSP has a 333MHz processor, Pandora twice that, so yes Pandora would be better.

Edit: Also, I'm sure this has been asked, but could the Pandora have an App store, so full-on commercial games can be made for lucrative profits?

There will be

 

[second exodous]

Let's say I were to develop Tekken 6, exactly as it is on the PSP, but specifically for this console. Would it run just as well as on the PSP, if not better?

Edit: Also, I'm sure this has been asked, but could the Pandora have an App store, so full-on commercial games can be made for lucrative profits?

Well, I'm going to reply nicely but I assure you you'll get your share of rude responses in this thread.

Yes, if you made a game comparable to a commercial game it could be as good as on the PSP. The Pandora has more power than a PSP.

Yes, there will be an App Store.

You need to search for things before you ask.

 

[gruso]

A recent thread on this topic:

http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/50469-benefits-of-pandora-over-psp/

 

[steventrouble]

Hahaha, my apologies, I am afraid that my searching skills are sub-par, as I merely searched for the word "PSP."

Thanks for the niceness, by the way. =D

 

[gruso]

That's cool. The search function has a four character minimum, making PSP a difficult thing to search for.

 

[danielliu88888]

be sure to click on advanced for better filtering options.


btw pandora eats psps for breakfast

 

[Jourdy288]

Just as an interesting side point, when we develop games, it's an open process as opposed to the PSP. If you were to ask to take the models from Tekken so you could modify them and re-insert them into the game, you'd be thrown from the nearest window

But if you were to peek in on our development, you'd see SO much community involvment, co-operation, etc.

 

[renwils]

The potential is there, but it's unlikely that we'll see graphics on the level of Tekken 6 or God of War: Chains of Olympus for a while. The resources that a company like Namco or Sony have far outweigh that of any open source or independent game project that is likely to be on the Pandora in the near future, making it unlikely that we'll see that sort of product on the Pandora. I expect there to be a few categories of really great Pandora software though.

1: Open GL ES ports of open source Linux games

It will pretty quickly outclass the PSP in terms of raw computational power. e.g. Quake 3 Arena If we ever get a complete OpenGL driver, we'll see even more of these open source games.

2: Commercial ports of other OMAP 3 games

A lot of iphone devs might be interested in porting to the Pandora. Who would turn down (nearly) free money?

3: Pandora Specific homebrew

After a while, we'll have some really nice development libraries to work with. With intuitive tools, nearly anyone can get involved in collaboration. I would love to see what this community could do with a Little Big Planet- style game where much of the content is user-generated.

 

[Nintendo]

Pandora = Win

PSP = Fail

 

[danielliu88888]

PSP = Fail

irony.

 

[Exophase]

Favorably.

 

[DeadName]

PSP = Fail

irony.

SONY has spoken.

 

[kagato]

After a while, we'll have some really nice development libraries to work with. With intuitive tools, nearly anyone can get involved in collaboration. I would love to see what this community could do with a Little Big Planet- style game where much of the content is user-generated.

For that purpose, I think the best bet right now looks like a port of Syntensity (or more accurately, the Intensity Engine, which is itself based upon Sauerbraten + other stuff). It's heavily biased towards online play (requires a separate server instance), but looks really powerful and easy to write mods.

 

[lulzfish]

Let's say I were to develop Tekken 6, exactly as it is on the PSP, but specifically for this console. Would it run just as well as on the PSP, if not better?

Well, the PSP has a 333MHz processor, Pandora twice that, so yes Pandora would be better.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUu-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_Myth

The Pandora does have a something like 600 MHz main clock, but the CPU is architecturally much newer and the GPU is probably a few times stronger too.
There's no way to reduce it to a single number, but yes, the Pandora is much more powerful than the PSP in every way, except for "number of optical drives".

 

[Trevsweb]

but still creating psp-esq games takes a team of professional developers countless months to make a psp game. im not sure we will see anything of that calibar unless the commecial side of the pandora draws in those crowds

 

[nabz32x]

Also some people forget, that the PSP has 333Mhz in max overclocked state, the Pandoras 600 are not overclocked,
I think the Pandora could go up to 900Mhz, as i´ve read somewhere in the forums.

Comparing the Pandora to the PSP is to compare a cure for cancer with cancer itself...

 

[WizardStan]

Also some people forget, that the PSP has 333Mhz in max overclocked state, the Pandoras 600 are not overclocked,

That's not overclocked, that's the standard processing rate of the PSPs processor. The actually underclock it to save on battery.
Like the Pandora is rated at 600 mhz, but if 500 mhz is the default (to save on battery) it doesn't mean anyone who changes it to 600 is overclocking.
The PSP actually has very little room for overclocking, becoming unstable at 350 mhz or so. Compare that to the Pandora which MWeston found to be stable in all his test units up to 900 mhz in some cases.
You shouldn't count on these overclock rates, though, but it's nice to know it's there.

 

[Paradox]

actually the pandora's CPU is rated at 720mhz iirc, it's just undercocked to 600 for battery, so we could be looking at 800+mhz overcocks (or as the post says above, 900mhz)

 

[juniorm33]

actually the pandora's CPU is rated at 720mhz iirc, it's just undercocked to 600 for battery, so we could be looking at 800+mhz overcocks (or as the post says above, 900mhz)

I think the ones in Pandora is actually rated at 600, TI are going to/are selling ones that are now rated at 720. Possibly speed binned ones, don't think we actually know if there even speed binned or just them creating an additional market segment lol