- It will be the first handheld with real 3D support. Right now there are much more good 3D artists in the gaming business then 2D artists that have an eye for every single pixel.
- It will be much easyer to make a handheld version of a console game if there is real 3D support and a media with enough space to store things. (Sound, music, textures, models ...)
- With a 16:9 screen, it's much easyer to add more buttons, even analog then on the SP layout.
- Sony has proven that they can make very small hardware, so no worry about bringing the USB port, big screen, Dual Shock like control sheme ... to a pocket gaming device.
- The PSP will have a floating point unit and much more RAM then the GBA. It will not be a 2D platform where 3D is extremly difficult to use with good speed and quality.
- The PSP will have extra functionality like playing music (ATRAC, MP3) and movies (MPEG4), so it will be more then just a gaming device and you don't have to have an MP3 player and or movie player in an other pocket. Maybe there will even be basic PDA functionality.
- It will be a huge jump from the GBA to the PSP. So they can hype the device as a real next generation device and not just like a color update or whatever.
- The licencing fees will be much better for developers with a disc media, so you will see much more games with big budges. (Not as big as PS2 games, but still much more then possible with non Nintendo games on the GBA)
- The hype machine of Sonys marketing. Nothing can beat it, not even much better harware. Yeah, gameboy has a huge userbase, but they missed to bring real inventions. I don't think the PSP will try to beat the GBA maarket directly, the PSP will open a new market for portable 3D games with CG sequences and anything else a hugh storage media can do for a game.
Fredi
- It will be much easyer to make a handheld version of a console game if there is real 3D support and a media with enough space to store things. (Sound, music, textures, models ...)
- With a 16:9 screen, it's much easyer to add more buttons, even analog then on the SP layout.
- Sony has proven that they can make very small hardware, so no worry about bringing the USB port, big screen, Dual Shock like control sheme ... to a pocket gaming device.
- The PSP will have a floating point unit and much more RAM then the GBA. It will not be a 2D platform where 3D is extremly difficult to use with good speed and quality.
- The PSP will have extra functionality like playing music (ATRAC, MP3) and movies (MPEG4), so it will be more then just a gaming device and you don't have to have an MP3 player and or movie player in an other pocket. Maybe there will even be basic PDA functionality.
- It will be a huge jump from the GBA to the PSP. So they can hype the device as a real next generation device and not just like a color update or whatever.
- The licencing fees will be much better for developers with a disc media, so you will see much more games with big budges. (Not as big as PS2 games, but still much more then possible with non Nintendo games on the GBA)
- The hype machine of Sonys marketing. Nothing can beat it, not even much better harware. Yeah, gameboy has a huge userbase, but they missed to bring real inventions. I don't think the PSP will try to beat the GBA maarket directly, the PSP will open a new market for portable 3D games with CG sequences and anything else a hugh storage media can do for a game.
Fredi
