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Narishma on 01 March 2011
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Zlejedi said:
Narishma said:
Zlejedi said:
Acevil said:
darthdevidem01 said:

looks lke they all want to go for online stuff in a big way

I am surprised at the optimism on price.

NGP really is turning out to be a developers system....if the price is right, marketing and so on it could be bigger than PSP.

I think the only problem I see is that the price, as a company, you still want either a good margin, or at most a small margin of loss, and at the same time, you want consumers willing enough to buy this. (Not just the hardcore....which are famitsu readers). 

Hopefully Sony finds a balance between the two, I will pick this device up, most likely after one or two full years...(I do this with every sony console). 

I think price won't be so astronomical - there already are two SoC systems planned for 2011 release with quad core arm A9 cpus ang Gpus as powerfull or faster than what NGP will have.

What SoCs are those?

Tegra 3 and

http://www.stericsson.com/press_releases/NovaThor.jsp

altrough i was bit wrong as nova 9600 is only dual core but with clockspeeds reaching 2.5Ghz

So if Sony for example releases NGP in early 2012 for US there already might be faster tablets/phones on the market.

Even if those SoCs release at the time they say they will, it will still takes months for them to appear in smartphones and tablets.

In addition, even if they are as powerful as the NGP, the NGP will still have a generation or more advantage because games for it will be written closer to the hardware and optimized for a single machine, unlike games for smartphones which have to go through higher level (and slower) APIs. John Carmack said something to this effect when the NGP was announced. It's the same thing with PCs and consoles. A PC with similar specs to an Xbox 360 wouldn't be capable of running games at the same graphical level.