Sony to use Nvidia Tegra for PSP2; explains delay

[disolitude]

Soleron said:

disolitude said:

Tegra will do just fine as the all in one solution for a portable device. These portable devices don't need to be powerhouse systems.

When you have a screen of 400-something x 280 something and are rendering games at that resolution, you really don't need anything better than Gerofce  6

I haven't seen much concern about the performance. It is fast; much faster than the 3DS will be. The issue is power consumption and related delays. The Tegra was claimed to have hundreds of design wins, then 90% of them never materialsed for that reason.

Even then, if the PSP2 doesn't have glasses-free 3D then it may well lose the graphics 'war' too (not that it makes much difference to sales). But that's not related to the choice of graphics chip.

I think the fact its an all in one cpu/gpu solution will give them similar battery performance to the PSP 1 which is all that is needed really. I have not read much about Tegra 2 battery performance, but Zune HD with Tegra 1 chip has had nothing but praise about battery life from what I've heard.

I'd be surprised if Sony used a tegra chip for PSP to be honest. Sony likes to own their hardware designs... Portable gaming is not a be all/end all of computing performance and Sony should be able to crank out a sufficient processor rather quickly for this application that is comparable to Apples A4 or intel atom.