PSP: bogus on E3 and still not finished?

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Ok there's this guy on the games forum (one of the most famous forums in Flanders) I'm mod of and he said al the PSP's that were displayed on the E3 show were bogus. He claims that the psp's were just empty shells with a LCD screen inside receiving input from a computer with a cable and with controller input too.
So the demo's that were playable, (like Tales Of Eternia) but just running on an emulator on a pc behind the walls or under the psp stands. Nor were there videos running from a UMD he says but EVERYTHING was running each time from a computer.
He even says that the prototype ken Kutaragi was keeping in his pocket couldn't even be turned on.

This guy is a Belgian freelance, games journalist working for french Belgian Televison, for magazines like Future Publishing, and websites like Gamespy (interview from him http://archive.gamespy.com/interviews/january04/am2/)
This is him with Ken Kutaragi http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~minkwon/IMG_1011.JPG

So what do you guys think?? (this may have been discussed already but there are so many psp topics :? )
If this is true I don't knwo what to believe. I just hope that the hardware will live up to the hype and can play the games that were shown with a respectable battery life!
 
PSP is not vaporware that is certain.

Sony has some issues to iron out with the PSP, sure, and this E3 was probably too early to have everything nailed down, although the chipset is said to be finished now with final kits going out.
 
That guy is the famous Fishie... some of what he says is true, most videos were just simply videos ( the PC emulators, the one that developers have been using, BTW, run at around 1-5 fps ) the only things that were running on real Hardware were the real-time tech demos the rest were videos or they might have been using PCs rendering at lower resolution, but the tech demos made by SCEI ( Harmonic city and the Rubber duck demo were running on final Hardware ).

SCEI had final Hardware weeks before E3 as the programmer of the tech demos stated himself publically on the Tokyopia boards.
 
since he is a relative of mine, i can clearly say that he is ehem, 'not' a big fan of Sony .. 8)


while a lot what he says is true and correct , some things are to be taken with a grain of salt.

but then again, i may believe that the psp demo units where empty shells with direct feed video on them. actually, why not
 
hey69 said:
since he is a relative of mine, i can clearly say that he is ehem, 'not' a big fan of Sony .. 8)


while a lot what he says is true and correct , some things are to be taken with a grain of salt.

but then again, i may believe that the psp demo units where empty shells with direct feed video on them. actually, why not
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Why not ? Maybe because developers ( also on this board ) are telling us otherwise ?

Also, how did Spiderman 2's trailer played on the PSP that was on stage during Sony's pre-E3 Press Conference ?
 
Panajev2001a said:
Also, how did Spiderman 2's trailer played on the PSP that was on stage during Sony's pre-E3 Press Conference ?
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Kutaragi Ken's evil magic... Of course. :LOL:

Teasy said:
Well if it were true then it would certainly change the complexion of the whole PSP E3 unvieling.
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What do you mean Teasy? They just unveiled/showed the final design and the firsts games (on videos) of the machine, and a few demos. If those demos were running on a hardware dev kit or a real PSP is not something that change a lot things, IMHO, since the final dev kit are actually made with the PSP hardware.
As Megadrive said PSP is not some sort of vaporware, we'll see it at a moment or another, and then we'll judge it. :D
 
Vysez, two scenarios:

1: Sony unviel PSP hardware at E3. They show PSP running software (not final games but at least tech demo's) and playing movies through UMD drive (this is what happened AFAIK).

2: Sony show empty casings from PSP at E3, no actual hardware shown, all software run on PC's (what that guy claims actually happened).

IMO the excitment/hype level of the public and journalists alike would be very different for each scenario. The second scenario is far less significant and interesting.

Look at PSP getting nominated for best of show at E3. Do you think it'd be nominated for best of show if Sony had merely said "Here is an empty casing to show what PSP will look like, and some games running on a PC that will end up being PSP games". Because I don't think so.

Just to be clear to everyone, I am not saying I believe the initial info in this thread. Just saying that if it were true then it would most definitely change the significance of the PSP E3 unvieling.
 
Also, how did Spiderman 2's trailer played on the PSP that was on stage during Sony's pre-E3 Press Conference ?
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Even GBA SP can play video trailers. ;)

I wouldn't be surprised if the PSPs were just a different shell with the innards of SONY's portable video players that's already on the market.
 
Speaking of GBA playing trailers.

I was looking in a K-Mart flyer and saw some tv show episodes or some shit on a cart you could buy, packaged just like any other GBA game of course.
 
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Speaking of GBA playing trailers.

I was looking in a K-Mart flyer and saw some tv show episodes or some shit on a cart you could buy, packaged just like any other GBA game of course.
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That's exactly what I'm talking about. Playing trailers could be done very easily especially with Memory Sticks. You don't need an optical drive let alone a functioning one for this type of demo.
 
When the accusations have separately painted him as being biased regarding each of the brands, it's safe to say Almaci isn't playing favorites.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if the PSPs were just a different shell with the innards of SONY's portable video players that's already on the market.
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Wouldn't fit...

Besides, "real" working PSP hardware units started showing up 2 weeks before E3...
 
I can confirm that no real PSP hardware was present at E3; all demos were mere video playback and sole playable demo was running off an emulator hidden under the desk(An SCEI specialty.) It was confirmed by SCEI CTO himself.
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sounds reasonable to me.

Sony will have alot of egg on its face if it doesnt launch PSP in Japan this december. I think there's a very very good chance of Japanese launch getting pushed back to spring. the question is, will they keep the NA launch in the spring or push it to fall. (all 2005 of course)


on the other hand, Sony has an awful lot riding on PSP. I don't doubt they will TRY their hardest to launch PSP within their announced timeframes.
 
Both PSP and NDS 'playable' units were firmly bolted to the station pods, and that was the only way to interact with them. Many people think that both devices were running with empty shells connected to a hardware devkit. That devkit hardware of course now has to be scaled down and put into the shell. Btw, as far as I can remember, Sony hasn't even promised a working prototype of PSP for this E3, much less any games on it - that was all suppposed to be saved for TGS.

As it is, we have confirmation from a tech demo programmer that all his demos, as well as Metal Gear game were running off the final hardware devkit, and most other demos were just video output from the emulator.

Besides, "real" working PSP hardware units started showing up 2 weeks before E3...
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Ah, OK. That puts many thoughts to rest.
 
It was confirmed by SCEI CTO himself.
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Ummm... Unless I suddenly forgot how to read Japanese, I see no mention of that...

Of course it would. You'd just take out the HDD.
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*NO* it wouldn't (even sans HDD)... We've got one upstairs (well in the other building I work in that is), and I can certainly tell you that the electronics would not fit in a PSP casing. (nor would it be able to play back the video since it can't decode H.264 or control a UMD drive). And there's a newer prototype player that would be unsuitable for those shenagans at this stage...
 
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