3DS dev costs roughly TRIPLE that of DS!

[loves2splooge]

HappySqurriel said:

KillerMan said:

Expect that it's impossible currently to match X360 in portable form. Too much heat and power usage. Also I severely doubt that Sony wants to make ''$599'' mistake again. Those rumors should be taken with grain of salt.

Honestly, I suspect that when people say that the performance of a handheld matches that of a console they mean so in a very loose fashion ... After all, people claimed that the PSP was a "portable PS2" but it was (in reality) a system which was approaching the processing power of the Dreamcast; and didn't really match the PS2.

With the PSP2 it is possible (and likely) that the performance will be somewhere between the PS2 and PS3, and the small screen size and limited resolution will lead people to make claims that it is a "Portable PS3" without it (really) comming close to the real world performance of the PS3.

Yeah I think the PSP's clockspeed is slightly above the PS2 (333 MHZ whereas PS2 was around the 290 mark). But that's just clock speed. There are other factors that go into performance. That all said, the PSP is a pretty impressive piece of 5 and a half year old portable hardware. The FMVs in Crisis Core look very good. And while I didn't exactly compare Persona 3 Portable side by side with the PS2 version (only saw some of that version on youtube. Didn't play it when it came out on PS2), it seems like they did a very good job with that port. Due to the size limitations of UMD, they had to cut out some cutscenes and voicing apparently. But seeing as how the PSP version has the fast travel feature and allows you to directly command your party members, I stuck with the PSP version for my first time instead of opting to go back and playing FES on PS2 (can always youtube the extra cutscenes later).