What do you think of the PSP?

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PSP stands for Play Station Portable.

This is the PSP easy specification:

Console Type: Hand-Held Console
Brand: Sony
Description: Black
Platform: PSP
Media type: UMD
Network gaming: LAN gaming compatible
Connections: 1x mini USB port , Infrared (IrDa) , Wi-Fi
Processor type: 128-bit
Processor speed: 333 MHz
Display type: TFT colour
Screen size: 4.3 inches
Display resolution: 480 x 272
Power source: Lithium Ion
Weight: 260g
Year of introduction 2005

Now a bit more technical:

CPU Core
MIPS R4000 32-bit core
128-bit Bus
333MHz, 1.2V
8MB eDRAM main memory
2.6GB/sec Bus Bandwidth
I-Cache, D-Cache
2.6GFlops, FPU, VFPU (Vector Unit)3D-CG extened instructions

Media Engine
MIPS R4000 32-bit core
333MHz, 1.2V
128-bit bus
2MB eDRAM sub memory
90nm CMOS manufacturing process

Graphics Core One
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 Two >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 color

Sound Core VME - Virtual Mobile Engine
166MHz, 1.2V
128-bit bus
5 billion operations / second
3D Sound, 7.1 Channel
Support ATRAC3 Plus, AAC, MP3
Reconfigurable DSP engine

Media UMD - Universal Media Disc
60mm diameter
660nm Laser Diode
1.8GB Dual Layer
11Mbps transfer rate
Shock Proof
Secure ROM by AES
Unique Disc ID

Display
4.5" TFT LCD with 16:9 widescreen display
480 x 272 pixels, 24-bit full color

Communication
Wireless LAN (802.11) [Hotspots, Home Server, ...]
IrDA infrared wireless communication [PSP, Mobile Phone,...]
USB 2.0 [PSP, PS2, PC, ...]
Memory Stick

Controller
Directional pad
Analogue stick
Four face buttions circle, triangle, square, x
Two shoulder buttons L1, R1
Start and Select buttons

Misc
MPEG4 AVC Decoder
Rechargeable Lithium ion battery
AV input / output
Headphone output

Launch Schedule Prototype: E3 2004 in May 2004
Title Lineup: Tokyo Game Show 2004
Launch: Q4 2004 - Worldwide

Programming
Similar to the Original PlayStation
PSP Libraries
Middleware
Sample Code
Simple Programmable Field* Media Engine and VME/AVE are not user programmable

This is what the PSP looks like:



Sweet Hey?

This is a UMD:



Personally I own one and I think they are wicked.

Please vote and leave a comment on you're choice in the Poll.

Bought mine in Akihabara before the North American release... And I'm starting to regret it. I mean, it was great at first, but now where are all the damn games? The last game I bought for the PSP was GTA:LCS which came out about half a ****ing year ago.

I think the system's on it's death bed now. Lumines 2 and Vice City Stories are coming out soon-ish, but for a good deal of time before and beyond that it's nothing but a void. Oh well, at least there's always the DS.

I own one. I think it's ok but i prefer my DS. one of my favorite games is on PSP. I think being able to watch movies on it is the best thing about it, I don't like having to buy all new movies, though. If i look at the screen to long i get headaches and i never had that with nintendo systems.. It's sonys first portable system so i wasn't expecting it to be very good.


It was much better than i thought it would be, still not as good as the DS.

You forgot the option "never seen one, never touched one, not loosing sleep over it
either". Yeah I never liked video games much myself. Played pong back in 1980 my dad
bought a pong machine we hooked it to a black-n-white tv. Maybe 1983 had an
Atari game consule(games like asteroids, space invaders, pitfall, defender I played
till the joystick died). After that I spent a very small amount on coin operated machines. Maybe played first PC game (RISK) in the earily 90's but never played
much after that.

nice tech specs. sh***y battery life. Where are the games?