Only if it's hardware BC + new hardware (ie: how PS3 did PS2) instead of new hardware being faster versions of the old hardware (ie: how GBC, GBA, DS, DSi, Wii did it)
In all likelihood I see Sony doing it that (second) way.
So your basicly admiting that the next gen psp will be worse graphicly than the iphone , google phones and win mo 7 phones for graphics ?
If they simply go with a faster psp they will miss out on alot of modern things that have come since. A smarter choice would be to farm out the cpu and gpu to someone who knows what they are doing. A dual core arm chip vortex i think its called ? With a power vr dedicated chip would work well. Instead of intergrating th chip into the arm chip , they can just make a larger gpu.
Would be much much much better than a faster psp.
I doubt it. Maybe if you can show me one that uses the same instruction set, otherwise it will require some software emulation, and that wouldn't be accurate and would be a waste of power.
PS3 can run rings around PS2, that doesn't mean it can emulate it's GPU.
360 can't even emulate XBOXes GPU properly, and it was DX.
I'm not aware of any sizable amount of xbox titles that aren't BC and of those that aren't they are mostly games that no one cared about when they were released.
And never will for the same reasons we'll never get every PS1 game on PSN.
And PSP2 will not solve those problems.
So you don't think that the PS3 can ever emulate all ps 1 games ? I'd think any ps1 games not on psn are due to popularity or liscensing problems.
And surely PS4 will be able to easily emulate a ps2 if the ps3 can't do it.
You don't think Sony wants to entice people who bought the largest collections of games/supported PSP most? It's not about being 'personal', it's about business. And smart business = making the people who give you the most money happy, and continuing to make money selling the same thing to new customers. Following that logic, PSP2 will have BC.
Or they know psp fans will buy a psp2 esp if it offers vastly improved graphics that a modern design can provide that a faster psp can't. In fact I'd think many of sony's most devoted buyers would be pissed if the psp 2 was just a faster psp. Cell phones will eclipse the graphics of it quite easily.
I've used that logic to predict how the ipad would run iphone's OS/app store not OSX as many predicted, Nintendo's kept BC for each system in the gameboy/ds line.
So the giant iphone was going to run OSX ? I don't think anyone believed that. Esp once it was known what the specs were.
Granted I used that logic to predict the Go would never be made (it would sell poorly, and would cause retailer boycotts, and it did both) I doubt Sony is stupid enough to repeat that mistake a second time.
A psp2 go launched from the start instead of a phsyical format would not face teh same problems and would sell extremely good.
Anyone who thinks Sony will ditch UMD should read this:
http://www.onelastcontinue.com/1628/editorial-psp2-umd-bad-idea/[/QUOTE]
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Carts: I doubt they’ll suddenly change format to carts because that’s just common sense. Sony practically wants to say they invented disc media, they won’t change to something Nintendo has done since the beginning.
WTF is this ? Seroiusly what kind of an excuse is this ? Sony will make the best choice for their system. That is a Rom based system. Either through carts or through DD to internal and exernal falsh.
Memory Sticks (Pro Duo) as central storage: They can’t go with memory sticks as central storage because the largest they can get is 8 gigs and anyone with a modded PSP could tell you that’s not enough to store more than 5 large games or 10 small games. I’ve been told that if a Memory Stick was used as central storage, you would then store the games on your PC or PS3 and then transfer to the PSP2 when you want to swap out. However if this was the case then piracy would be easier than the days of the Dreamcast. Plus, forcing a PSP2 owner to actually have a Playstation 3 or PC in order to store the games is an insta-death to the system. If the hardware can’t work alone, you can’t sell it alone. If you can’t sell hardware alone, it won’t sell at all.
Yes cause UMD's are so hard to copy right ............. yea right its easy as pie.
Memory sticks would work just fine. They can tie the game to the mac adress of the psp 2 and to the account name using DRM
Also flash will only grow . There are 64 gig SD cards already. Only thing preventing them from being main stream is pricing and avaliblity. The price will decrease once they move to the next mcron process.
Tiny Hard Disc Drive: You do realize that the PSP is a portable system that moves and shakes a lot, right? You also realize that hard disc drives have movable parts and shouldn’t be moved around and shaken a lot, right? Then you already know why this option isn’t viable.
So umds are magic spining discs that don't have to deal with any of that ?
You seem to ignore hat everyone else keeps posting
1) Carts are much faster than optical discs.
2 ) Carts have no moving parts
3) Carts use much much less power
4) Crs are much smaller physicly than discs (yes even umd)
5) People want small protable systems. Disc drives prevent that
I would be shocked if sony went with aother disc next gen. In fact I can tell you , i wouldn't buy it if they did. In 2010/11/12 or whenever this comes out , I don't need to carry discs with me anymore.
What are you actually arguing here? Are you saying DLC BC is a good thing or bad thing? Is the current PSN model the only possible model for reselling old content, or are there other models like Wii's VC? Are you saying developers don't want to resell their old games but do want people to play old and 2nd hand UMDs instead of buying new games?