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The latest rival to the all-conquering Nintendo GameBoy has been dealt another blow. The Sony PSP, essentially a handheld PlayStation, will now debut in 2005 in the US and Europe.
Molly Smith, of the American arm of Sony said today, "We want to ensure that the product launch is really well supported and that the development community will have time to optimise content," and continued. "The portable space is a new domain... and we want to ensure that when this thing is launched that we are able to demonstrate what this thing can do."
Slated for release in Japan this Christmas, a date that many are worried will slip also, the PSP has been hailed as the 'Walkman' of the 21st century, the PSP has also been heralded as a portable media system and the specifications certainly look good.
Designed around a 1.8GB storage device, with a specially fabricated processor chip, Dolby 7.1 sound and 33 million polygons a second, 24-bit colour system the PSP certainly has a decent amount of muscle, more than enough for the stated aim of being able to play two hours worth of DVD video and wireless networking. Sony even plan to go head to head with the N-Gage as well as the GBA with rumoured additional telephony capability as an add-in.
More when it breaks.
Chris Snook
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