PCworld writes:
Sources close to Sony PSP development have hinted to Game On what Sony's planning to stick in its rumored smaller, sleeker PSP Go!. Remember this CES 2009 press release back in January? The one where SanDisk revealed a panoply of tinier, higher-speed memory products? Think those.
Yet another leak for the ASUS ROG Ally X points towards as much as 8 hours of battery, but how does that compare to the competition?
Honestly, I really like this updated version. But it doesn't solve the biggest flaw that the original had for me: the Z1 Extreme APU. Yes, it's an extremely powerful part, but it is not part of AMD's Adrenalin driver update program, so it's dependent on Asus for driver updates. And unfortunately, Asus doesn't have a stellar record of support for their devices.
Up to 8 hours basically just means the least demanding games. AAA gaming at highest wattage would probably be about 2-3 hours which is good compared to just about 1 hour with the current ally. The OLED Deck can do about 2-3hrs.
"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.
il beat you to the ski-lift,
framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?
talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr
morning rant over.
here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game
The Nerd Stash: "The rarest PSP games of all time are some of the most underrated titles with niche gameplay styles and huge fanbases."
oh this is great news.
Keep doing your thing Sony.
"Now Sony just needs to ship a magnifying glass and a pair of tweezers with the new system, so we're not squinting around on the ground if we drop one changing our data out."
He makes light of the size, but I'll be darned if my kids don't lose those postage stamp sized games for their DS. No matter how often I tell them to put them up.
The PSP Go! ...?
I never even knew Sony were making one.. I thought there was a PSP 2..?
I dunno, It's all rather confusing right now with this rumor bullshit, I'd say.. Let Sony actually announce it first!
Hardware improvements are nice but the PSP needs more new games. There just isn't enough coming out each month.
Right, take this all as you will, i.e. with a big ol' pinch of salt:
I have a friend who works for Sony. Nothing spectacular, just a lowly tester (probably the lowest grade job you can get in this industry, unless you're a cleaner). He works at Sony Liverpool.
Anyhoo, I was talking to him 2 days ago (when he finally brought over my copy of Killzone 2) about this new PSP as I'd just bought a PSP myself. I mentioned what all the rumours had been saying so far, various ones about there being no UMD drive, flash storage, sliding screen, etc.
He laughed.
Now this friend of mine NEVER tells me anything concrete, he actually takes the NDA quite seriously. He never even tells me what PS1 games he's been testing before they go up on PSN.
Anyway, he laughed at this and shook his head. He told me that they had a new PSP that they were testing with and although he wasn't certain if it'd be the same as the PSP everyone is talking about now, he did say that it definitely was not the PSP-1000, 2000 or 3000. And he told me that it wasn't THAT different to current models.
He specifically mentioned that something interesting was different, but wouldn't say what. He DID say that it still had a UMD drive, though and they were currently testing all of the games on it (yes, ALL of them, hence why they're testing them now even though it's not due for months).
He said it was a bit like the whole 2.7 update for the PS3, where the rumours got crazy and out of hand, the same thing is happening with this new PSP model.
Now as I said, take all this with a pinch of salt as I have no proof of this or anything, but from what he said, it's certainly possible he's being accurate here.