Sony's PSP2 to have more computing power than Xbox 360

[Wolfram23]

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/PSP-PlayStation-Portable-Qualcomm-MIPS-R4000-xbox-360,news-8536.html
http://kotaku.com/5675525/psp2-will-ditch-the-umd-may-rival-xbox-360-in-horsepower?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+kotaku/full+%28Kotaku%29

The PSP2, which looks to also be a phone (or at least have a phone version - or maybe it's a phone with a gaming version) appears to be a pretty powerful little gadget.

If handhelds are now going to outstrip the current console generation, will this push the console market to get their next generation consoles out faster?

 

[Casual Shinji]

I'd buy that for a dollar.

Unfortunately, it'll probably be around 300 dollars.

 

[Broady Brio]

Does that come with it's own RRoD as well?

 

[The Lost Big Boss]

Does it come with a portable generator and mittens so my hands don't blister?

 

[Dexiro]

Ditching the UMD doesn't sound so bad, unless people were hoping to sell their PSP for the PSP2. I hope that doesn't mean they're ditching physical media all together though, people don't want to live off downloads.

 

[GrimHeaper]

PsP doesn't matter the Nintendo always beats it in game selection and quality games with handhelds.
Plus the great backward capability they always have is great.
The 3ds will be cheaper as well so I don't even see the point of PsP2.
If Microsoft tries I will laugh though.

 

[Jenkins]

PsP doesn't matter the Nintendo always beats it in game selection and quality games with handhelds.
Plus the great backward capability they always have is great.
The 3ds will be cheaper as well so I don't even see the point of PsP2.
If Microsoft tries I will laugh though.

that is all opinion. just like how I feel that Nintendo's game selection on the DS is for 12 year olds.


to each his own.

 

[MrMoustaffa]

When I saw this thread title it looked like a huge sony fanboy post. After reading it though, thankfully i was wrong. This being said, it seems like every new techno gadget coming out is truimphed as being incredibly more powerful than the last generation. I remember somebody claiming the Apple TV was going to be the next big console and that it had more power than a 360, and someone else saying that the Ipod 4th gen has more processing power than the 3DS. Which all might be true, but I wont believe any of these until I see it.

I cant help but be skeptical, as how on earth is a handheld going to have more computing power than a modern console. The only way I see it working was if they made something the size of an iPad, and put a huge battery in it to run the screen on, which of course wouldnt be a practical handheld.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

That's pretty impressive. Hopefully this will be the norm with handhelds... of course, the Xbox 360 has been out since 2005. I would kind of hope that by now we'd have something that works better.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

PsP doesn't matter the Nintendo always beats it in game selection and quality games with handhelds.
Plus the great backward capability they always have is great.
The 3ds will be cheaper as well so I don't even see the point of PsP2.
If Microsoft tries I will laugh though.

personal opinion, my friend.

personally there are a good 9-10 games on the psp that id much rather have than any of the games on the DS, and personally i dont like the joystickless ds, it pisses me off, and its seeming that way too with the new 3ds and psp2.

 

[GrimHeaper]

PsP doesn't matter the Nintendo always beats it in game selection and quality games with handhelds.
Plus the great backward capability they always have is great.
The 3ds will be cheaper as well so I don't even see the point of PsP2.
If Microsoft tries I will laugh though.

that is all opinion. just like how I feel that Nintendo's game selection on the DS is for 12 year olds.


to each his own.

You have a rather slim view on the DS it seems.
*inserts GBA game in DS and plays*

 

[twistedheat15]

PsP doesn't matter the Nintendo always beats it in game selection and quality games with handhelds.
Plus the great backward capability they always have is great.
The 3ds will be cheaper as well so I don't even see the point of PsP2.
If Microsoft tries I will laugh though.

that is all opinion. just like how I feel that Nintendo's game selection on the DS is for 12 year olds.


to each his own.

Pretty much this. Even if the Nintendo beats it out in sales because more kids are buying it, it won't stop the psp2 from being a great system for the older crowd if they can get the right games on it.

 

[GrimHeaper]

PsP doesn't matter the Nintendo always beats it in game selection and quality games with handhelds.
Plus the great backward capability they always have is great.
The 3ds will be cheaper as well so I don't even see the point of PsP2.
If Microsoft tries I will laugh though.

that is all opinion. just like how I feel that Nintendo's game selection on the DS is for 12 year olds.


to each his own.

it won't stop the psp2 from being a great system for the older crowd if they can get the right games on it.

it won't stop the 3DS from being a great system for the older crowd if they can get the right games on it. Some of the things I said were not opinions.
Some of them are facts the DS(not 3DS) does have a greater Library and it does have backwards capability. I know of some good games on the PsP, but I can play almost all of the games on my ps2.

 

[klaynexas3]

i'll buy it. simply because i'm a sony fanboy and i'm fine with losing physical components. only way we can beat that california law is to just switch to downloading games off internet stores.

 

[GrimHeaper]

i'll buy it. simply because i'm a sony fanboy and i'm fine with losing physical components. only way we can beat that california law is to just switch to downloading games off internet stores.

It wouldn't surprise me if they put laws on those somehow as well.
Not to mention that Sony could make the downloads only last a certain amount of time and kill it making you have to buy it.
They may even have to do that with the pirating issues that the PsP has had in the past.

 

[Jenkins]

PsP doesn't matter the Nintendo always beats it in game selection and quality games with handhelds.
Plus the great backward capability they always have is great.
The 3ds will be cheaper as well so I don't even see the point of PsP2.
If Microsoft tries I will laugh though.

that is all opinion. just like how I feel that Nintendo's game selection on the DS is for 12 year olds.


to each his own.

You have a rather slim view on the DS it seems.
*inserts GBA game in DS and plays*

just as much as you do for the PSP

 

[-Seraph-]

*sigh* Once again I am calling bullshit until I see some concrete proof. These stupid ass rumors pop up all the time and I just can't take em seriously seeing as we get all these proposterous claims every few weeks.

Now if it's real and the device is close to the power of a 360....cool? Problem still is the god damn battery life. I wouldn't expect good battery life out of a system like that unless Sony has some trick to make it so. The ditching of UMD for another storage medium is fine with me and I knew they were gonna do so. Hell they may switch over to those Pro Duo or SD cards instead since even the 2 gig one is dirt cheap. As long as they have SOME form of backwards compatibility, be it UMD drive add on or built in UMD drive, I will be happy.

They sure as hell aint going all digital as their expensive little litmus test, the PSPgo, gave em the idea that the market isn't ready for that. Although I would hope they have some sort of internal storage like the Go (the one good feature).

Really we should all take these stupid rumors with a bag of salt, I've heard this nonse month after month and I just with Sony would just say something already so we have some actual info instead of a mountain of rumors.

Oh and if that 'touch pad' on the back of the system is a substitute for a second stick, fine, I can deal with that. Just please Sony, put a second stick or something on the system to shut the whiners up already. Hell that way you can throw a bunch of shooters on there to appease the mouth breathers that seem to only care about that nonsense. AND DON'T MAKE IT A PHONE.

 

[twistedheat15]

PsP doesn't matter the Nintendo always beats it in game selection and quality games with handhelds.
Plus the great backward capability they always have is great.
The 3ds will be cheaper as well so I don't even see the point of PsP2.
If Microsoft tries I will laugh though.

that is all opinion. just like how I feel that Nintendo's game selection on the DS is for 12 year olds.


to each his own.

it won't stop the psp2 from being a great system for the older crowd if they can get the right games on it.

it won't stop the 3DS from being a great system for the older crowd if they can get the right games on it. Some of the things I said were not opinions.
Some of them are facts the DS(not 3DS) does have a greater Library and it does have backwards capability. I know of some good games on the PsP, but I can play almost all of the games on my ps2.

No1 is saying that it wouldn't be, but saying the psp is pointless because of what the 3ds will have is just being biased toward it. In that case we shouldn't bother with any other systems because of what another can do.

 

[Composer]

PsP doesn't matter the Nintendo always beats it in game selection and quality games with handhelds.
Plus the great backward capability they always have is great.
The 3ds will be cheaper as well so I don't even see the point of PsP2.
If Microsoft tries I will laugh though.

that is all opinion. just like how I feel that Nintendo's game selection on the DS is for 12 year olds.


to each his own.

You have a rather slim view on the DS it seems.
*inserts GBA game in DS and plays*

trys to insert a GBC game and breaks it......O-O