Please show me a link to an Smartphone with the same graphics capacity as the PS Vita which costs only $199. I think only the iPhone4 or one of the new Samsung phones at > $500 come close, or?
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Please show me a link to an Smartphone with the same graphics capacity as the PS Vita which costs only $199. I think only the iPhone4 or one of the new Samsung phones at > $500 come close, or?
So, on topic... this thing is going to be a beast with stencil performance.
Also, I assume the CPU cores are clocked well below 1 GHz here. The clock speeds are obviously the one spec they can lock down late in the development process.
At one time, game platform designers tried to get out of the cost of hardware by licensing their designs to other manufacturers, resulting in Saturns, 3DOs, and Gamecubes by the likes of Panasonic and Hitachi. They then made those companies compete with their own standard versions of the consoles without sharing the subsidization from software royalties, so those companies of course couldn't compete on price. Just as the games platform business model one-upped the traditional CE manufacturers because of subsidizations, the monthly service fee subsidy allows mobile phones to take up-front pricing down even further... consumers largely didn't factor the extra cost they were paying in software back in the day when buying a console for cheap, and they don't factor the extra fee of the monthly contract now when buying a phone at such a value.
Also, I assume the CPU cores are clocked well below 1 GHz here. The clock speeds are obviously the one spec they can lock down late in the development process.
At one time, game platform designers tried to get out of the cost of hardware by licensing their designs to other manufacturers, resulting in Saturns, 3DOs, and Gamecubes by the likes of Panasonic and Hitachi. They then made those companies compete with their own standard versions of the consoles without sharing the subsidization from software royalties, so those companies of course couldn't compete on price. Just as the games platform business model one-upped the traditional CE manufacturers because of subsidizations, the monthly service fee subsidy allows mobile phones to take up-front pricing down even further... consumers largely didn't factor the extra cost they were paying in software back in the day when buying a console for cheap, and they don't factor the extra fee of the monthly contract now when buying a phone at such a value.
The Saturn and GC examples don't count. Those were special one off deals, and the GC one only came about because Panasonic made the GC disc drive.
1 month ago I replaced my old phone for a new one. Samsung Galaxy S 2. At the moment "the best Android phone!
I tried to play Zenonia 3 on it, but ... URGH, touch control are really clumsy compared to PSP. I just cannot feel comfortable with touch controls. Not to mention that you obstruct the screen with your own fingers. Not by much but it is still rather annoying.
For Angry Birds it's not a problem, but if a game has more complex UI and requires constant button pushing I vastly prefer DS / PSP as an game device than my phone!
I tried to play Zenonia 3 on it, but ... URGH, touch control are really clumsy compared to PSP. I just cannot feel comfortable with touch controls. Not to mention that you obstruct the screen with your own fingers. Not by much but it is still rather annoying.
For Angry Birds it's not a problem, but if a game has more complex UI and requires constant button pushing I vastly prefer DS / PSP as an game device than my phone!
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No RAM cut for Vita, it has 512MB system RAM plus 128 MB for graphics. no downgrade to 256MB system RAM basicly confirmed.
http://www.sys-con.com/node/1947549
http://www.sys-con.com/node/1947549
Showpiece title from Gamescom, Uncharted: Golen Abyss --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zqyRuLHPCo
Discussion about the game itself should be directed to the Console Gaming sub-forum, of course, but it looks like the healthy amount of RAM combined with PVRTC, among other GPU strengths, really helps to bridge the gap to home console visuals.
That footage stokes my craving for some Indiana Jones... my Indiana jones, I suppose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zqyRuLHPCo
Discussion about the game itself should be directed to the Console Gaming sub-forum, of course, but it looks like the healthy amount of RAM combined with PVRTC, among other GPU strengths, really helps to bridge the gap to home console visuals.
That footage stokes my craving for some Indiana Jones... my Indiana jones, I suppose.
http://onq-world.blogspot.com/
I found a PDF lastnight from Develop in Brighton keynote that happen July 19 -21 2011 lots of info on Vita
I'll post a few of the slides here
I found a PDF lastnight from Develop in Brighton keynote that happen July 19 -21 2011 lots of info on Vita
I'll post a few of the slides here
The only new bit of information I can find in there is this quote:
So it can do texture operations right after interpolation (rather than during the shader itself) if it's not a dependent texture operation. That's a good way to improve latency tolerance in the common case, although given the relatively low number of threads and the apparent focus on optimising non-dependent texture operations, I wonder how well SGX would run a 'back-to-back dependent texturing' corner case shader. Not that it matters much in reality.
Tegra3 will be obviously clocked higher both on the CPU as on the GPU side compared to PS Vita's SoC, but since NV is counting vector lanes as "cores" and the Tegra3 GPU has 12 "cores" the SGX543MP4+ in the PS Vita has over 64 "cores" for the GPU alone. With a factor 3x for the GPU of PS Vita you'd still be on the safe side.
