Sony to enter hand-held gmes arena
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The best thing that ever hit fps games is the pc. It blows away all the consoles trust me. ex. geforce 4 + battlefield 1942 or medal of honor allied assualt. list goes on and on.VirtuaLeech posted on May 13 2003 said:I think Mofokubik sums it up real nice in his post.
If you like RPG´s get a PS2
If you like FPS get an XBOX
If you like cute playable games get a GameCube
If you shower your wife with gifts, get them all
Everybody likes different games, everybody should be happy with the console (s)he owns.
@jjthe2: Sony want to target this as a massmarket machine (the next walkman). I´ll doubt it will cost $400. I´m thinking about $149 - $199 (remember it´s still 1½ years away, and technollegy advances fast)
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I would have to say - whoever wrote that particular part of the h/w profile, was talking our of their arse.
I say that because 'NURBS' (Non Uniform Rational B-Splines), are a method for creating geometry (polygons). So to say that something uses NURBS and conventional polygons is a little odd...
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I've been told that OpenGL has had the ability to interpret NURBS for some time... so it could well be I who is talking out of his arse... :blink: <_< :unsure: bugger...
Mofokubik
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Yes, but not all people have 1000s of dollars to throw away on a good pc. I bought this pc for internet, and a few simple games like halflife. I bought both pc and xbox for ~450dollars, and it was a good choice.
Yes, but not all people have 1000s of dollars to throw away on a good pc. I bought this pc for internet, and a few simple games like halflife. I bought both pc and xbox for ~450dollars, and it was a good choice.
Mofokubik
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I dont know where you buy your computer parts, but I dont think I could get a geforce4ti card for 100$
And even if you do, that is only one part of the system, you will still need to buy a cpu, ram, motherboard, powersupply, case, soundcard, harddrive, os, modem/lan card, monitor, etc....
And even if you do, that is only one part of the system, you will still need to buy a cpu, ram, motherboard, powersupply, case, soundcard, harddrive, os, modem/lan card, monitor, etc....
Shane
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I read the specs on IGN. The thing will be like the gamegear, eat up batteries like nothing. A backlit screen of 4.5 inches and a disc player? Thats stupid and you know it. Personally I hate sony too. They live off of there name which WAS good until something or other. The only reason the games look on par to GC and Xbox's is because they work like labourers getting the best out while developers for the other consoles lay back, but the sony developers get the money for it. Also the GB thing, no competition means no pushing it. It really sucks poo.
Mofokubik
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If it really is single chip, then it wont eat up as much power as you think it will. My uncle is designing the first single chip cell phone for some company, he told me it was really efficient. But still, I see no need to use cds for handhelds yet....Im sure that nintendo will overpower psp with some new handheld. You can obviously tell this is sony's desperate attempt of trying to dominate the gaming market. They saw that nintendo did a half ass job on gba, and thought this was the perfect time to take over the handheld gaming market. PSP looks nice, but it probably looks better than it actually is.
OK, im done now.
Im not going to verbally bash the machine anymore until I try it out for myself.
OK, im done now.
Im not going to verbally bash the machine anymore until I try it out for myself.
stickofjoy
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I think Nintendo should be worried, you can;t argue they have been resting on their laurels with two launches of the GBA and it's still not quite right. Coupled with that the dodgy games support.
As for power consumption of the PSP it uses a built in lithium ion battery much like the GBA SP. So no worries there. Sony are not going to mess this one up I can assure you!
As for power consumption of the PSP it uses a built in lithium ion battery much like the GBA SP. So no worries there. Sony are not going to mess this one up I can assure you!
Mindar
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The PSP is a new hand held made by sony (which already makes it sold in america, as well as globally) and has an amazing disk medium of 1.8 gigs! It also has the ability to use 3d rendering using polygons as well as NURBS. It uses MPEG4 for video and has a rechargable ion lithium battery, that probably comes with and adaptor. Its also coming with an official development platform in the fall of 2003.
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The reason why hand helds are currently low spec is because of battery limitations, you simply cant get around them. Even sony couldnt make tghat big a leap and get the batteries to last 2 hours + on a machine as high spec as that.
smash
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Its not a hoax, i saw the presentation (couldent think of the right word) on techTV! h34r:
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Axeman
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I dont think it's gonna be a competitor for a while yet... different target audience. If you want to get homebrew stuff and emulators, you'd still but a GP32, even when the PSP comes out. I mean who, honestly, has bought a GP32 for the commercial games???
As much as i think this new console does look good, and known me ill add it to my collection, i dont see it as a competator, it'll be a commercial game only jobbie.
It'll have some great new games (Tomb Raider on a handheld anyone?
) but it still wont beat my emus on the GP. and who knows what GamePark have up there sleeve, Q4 2004 is a long way away I know, but i wouldnt class a POCKETPC as a handheld for us gamersm0nk666 posted on May 15 2003 said:
PAH... tomb raider on handheld... Thats been around on POCKETPC's for a while now... and runs great as well... ... just the controls sux0rs
Regards
M0nk T.
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Yeah its funny how they thought it would never be able to have a long battery life too.
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