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Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) Real Video
First Real video:
A Japanese video released by Yomiuri News shows the forthcoming Sony PlayStation
Portable (PSP) for first time running in someone's hands and not connected to
kiosk, as were all the PSP units at the E3 Expo this year.
The video shows the PSP running both Gran Turismo 4 Mobile and Dokodemo Issho
games.
Watch Video:
Below are two locations to watch the video, which is about 3.5mb in size,
narration is in Japanese:
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Streaming Version (Yomiuri Server, .asx)
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Windows Media Version (Lik-Sang Server, .wmv)
The video show's that the hardware engine is very much complete and it should
not be long before developers get their hands on a test unit and begin creating
their games.
Those who cannot wait, may wish to
get their
pre-order for the PSP confirmed through
Lik-Sang International - your
pre-order can be cancelled by yourself at any time and is in no way
binding.
The CPU:
PSP will make use of twin MIPS R4000 32 bit processors running at max 333
Megahertz. One of these units is referred to as the Media Engine, and is to be
used for sound, movies and I/O management. In addition, the system will include
a so-called VFPU floating point vector unit with calculation capability of up to
2.6 Gigaflops. This latter unit is meant for assisting the CPU in 3D
calculations.
The Memory:
The system is expected to feature 8 Megabytes main memory with bandwidth of 2.6
Gigabytes per second along with two megabytes of sub-memory, also at 2.6
Gigabytes per second, which will be used by the Media Engine.
The Graphics Processor:
The GPU is made up of a Rendering Engine and a Surface Engine and has access to
2 Megabytes of VRAM with a bandwidth of 5.3 Gigabytes per second. The hardware
will include support for traditional polygons as well as curved surface
primitives along with such things as clipping, morphing and more, freeing up
software from having to deal with these. Sony claims a theoretical polygon
performance of 33 million polygons per second.
The
Disc:
The system's UMD (Universal Media Disc) optical disk format has also been
clarified a bit. A UMD is a 60 millimeter dual layered disk that can store up to
1.8 Gigabytes of data. Transfer rate for the reader unit is 11 Megabits per
second, which is twice the transfer rate of a standard DVD system. Sony is also
promising the highest level of copy protection for these discs using DiscID and
AES encoding technology.
The Release Date:
A worldwide simultaneous launch for the unit is expected for the fourth quarter
of 2004.
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