| Darc Requiem said: Sony restricted the clock speed to 222mhz and in addition they did not allow streaming from the UMD drive. The UMD drive eats more power than the CPU. Having developers use the PSP at full clock and stream data directly from the UMD drive would dramatically reduced the systems battery life. |
Has there been any official word from Sony that they restricted the speed due to battery life?
Anyway, developers were not restricted from streaming from the UMD. Capcom used streaming for Monster Hunter Portable.
Anyway, as far as I am concerned, even if it does eat a little more battery life, that doesn't create a problem for me. I've always found the PSP's battery life pretty goodto be honest. I've always managed to get between 4-7 hours of gaming on a charge and that is fine for me.
This restriction removal is all positive in my books. We will get to see bigger, better, faster and smoother games from now on in. Although I wonder what it will do for previous games.
Prediction (June 12th 2017)
Permanent pricedrop for both PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro in October.
PS4 Slim $249 (October 2017)
PS4 Pro $349 (October 2017)
