bugsonglass said:

OMG ... dolphin spaceship model is the best DLC ever!!  so exciting ... especially if it's to coincide with some major update on the progress of the development of pikmin 3!

I really want them to flesh this stuff out. Have figurines like Olimar or Gannon. Have themed furniture set and wallpapers. They have all the retro mario items but why not stuff from other games?

LBP has all this MGS stuff and ghostbusters and Disney stuff.

gamingeek said:

PSP2 features quad core graphics chip - rumour

According to a report by Eurogamer.es, PowerVR technology from Imagination Technologies will form the basis of the still in-development PlayStation Portable 2, writes Digital Foundry.

Imagination Technologies was rumoured to be working with Sony on the PSP2 last November, when the company announced it had stuck a deal with a "major consumer electronics company".

The site claims to have information from insider sources stating that a quad core iteration of the low-power SGX543MP chip, codenamed Hydra, will be present in the next generation handheld, not to be confused with the forthcoming PSPgo.

The chip itself appears to be very close to the enhanced GPU experts say resides within the iPhone 3GS, providing a generational leap in performance over older PowerVR MBX processors found in the previous models.

The same technology is also found in select netbooks such as the Dell Mini 12, as part of the new low power Poulsbo chipset. The single core version of the chip has been demonstrated at CES running Quake 3 Arena at 30FPS.

The main difference is that the SGX543MP is a multicore processor, with anything up to 16 cores available. According to the original report, PSP2 opts for a quad configuration offering notional specs of 133 million polygons per second, and 4Gpixels/sec fillrate, assuming that Hydra operates at the chip's low-end of 200MHz (higher speed variants are also available, presumably for desktop use).

While specs like this are always subject to interpretation, these figures are a ballpark match for the original Xbox. However, PowerVR's tech includes tile-based deferred rendering, which should provide a performance boost.

Also of interest is the fact that Imagination Technologies itself describes the chip as a GP-GPU, meaning it has the ability to operate as both CPU and graphics processor in one, similar to projects being worked on by Intel and AMD. It may well be that PSP2 will centralise all of its processing into a single chip, thus saving power and providing other efficiency savings from a programming perspective (lightning fast interaction between game logic and graphics, for example).  

Oh dear God SONY.

phantom_leo said:

Cheap shot.
Not hot.
Still don't want a PSP.
Nice try though, Sony.

Oooh....Is that a Moen faucet?

phantom_leo said:

...but seriously, how did Sony go from being the leader of the industry last generation to complete, incompetent dumb-asses that can't make one, single, smart decision?

The same way Nintendo did after it was the industry leader during the  8 and 16 bit days.   Do only what they wanted to do and not listen to the gamers.

Ravenprose said:

travo said:

phantom_leo said:

...but seriously, how did Sony go from being the leader of the industry last generation to complete, incompetent dumb-asses that can't make one, single, smart decision?

The same way Nintendo did after it was the industry leader during the  8 and 16 bit days.   Do only what they wanted to do and not listen to the gamers.

Very true.

Oddly enough, that very same approach put them back in the first place. It's the circle of life, Elton!

phantom_leo said:

travo said:

phantom_leo said:

Cheap shot.
Not hot.
Still don't want a PSP.
Nice try though, Sony.

Oooh....Is that a Moen faucet?

Couldn't tell you. My eyes are drawn more to the bottle of lube over his left shoulder. The ass shaped PINK cloth over his right, complete with the puckered hole in the center. His tongue sticking out --NOT-- temptingly... just making him look, well, dumb --AND-- best of all, his grotesquely hairy left knee, compared to the rest of his clean shaven body...

...but I'm sure all the rest of you guys noticed all of these things too...!

This photo session was obviously set up by a straight man or woman, trying to appeal to the more "alternative" game players out there...

...didn't work!

Epic. Promotional. Fail.

Couldn't have said it better myself!

...oh wait! I DID! Nevermind!

That Iwata asks interview is a great read.

They talk about temperature and humidity drift with Wii motionplus and how it was resolved.

gamingeek said:

That Iwata asks interview is a great read.

They talk about temperature and humidity drift with Wii motionplus and how it was resolved.

Sato:

Using the supplementary technology that Ota-san devised, we were able to get rid of this problem of drift.

Yamashita:

He solved it in a way that you just wouldn’t imagine, so I wondered what sort of magic he’d used.

All:

(laughter)

Yamashita:

As you’re waving the Wii Remote, it steadily corrects itself.

Iwata:

Normally, you’d expect it to drift further away from the correct point as you wave it.

Yamashita:

But in fact, it becomes more and more accurate.

Sato:

The more you wave it, the more accurate it gets!

Iwata:

That’s really something!

Miyamoto:

I’m afraid we can’t reveal just how the magic works! (laughs)

 Controllers are becoming waaay too complicated.