I figured it out! Sony fanboys really hated Sony.

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Kantor said:

Squilliam said:

Kantor said:

SmokedHostage said:

Would it be on the question to ask... What if the PSP2 is less powerful than the 3DS?

That would be ideal. It can't outperform the 3DS without having a heftier price tag and worse battery life. It's time to consider a new approach when your competitor has goggle-free 3D at a reasonably high price. You need to undercut it, even if it means not creating a PSP2 significantly more powerful than the PSP. Hell, just put in a touch screen (maybe), dual analog and maybe four shoulder buttons, and nobody will care if PSP2 games look last-gen.

Not true. It depends on the quality of the PSP2 architecture. Its possible to have lower power, higher performance and the same or better battery life. I mean look at Microsoft, they managed to make a cheaper console with similar performance and which used less power. In the handheld industry things are even more dynamic. Face it, if it weren't possible for Sony to make a higher performance handheld given Nintendos conservatism I would say, shoot them now to save them the humiliation!

Perhaps performance wasn't the right word. The hardware can't be superior to that of the 3DS without a higher price tag. It can certainly be put together more efficiently, but Sony hasn't really been fantastic at that, of late. And also, the low price tag and high performance of the 360 were at the expense of hardware reliability.

It's more important that the PSP2 be reliable and cheap than powerful. 3DS-level graphics in 2D would be a good aim, I think.

If Sony choose the right architecture they can have more performance and if they go to the 28nm node they can even have more performance, more battery life at the same time. The actual architecture itself is a much of a muchness in terms of cost but you can do much better if you choose the right I.P. and make the right deals. The Nintendo 3DS architecture is old, in the case of the CPU or strange in the case of the PICO? chip. I would say for sure that a PSP2 packing a dual core ARM Cortex 8 Tegra 2 would be quite the stallion in terms of performance.

The low price tag of the 360 didn't cause reliability issues, the issues were caused by bad design decisions. It could have been made at the same price at better reliability had they done a few things differently, but these aren't things which would have cost them any.