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With PSP games reaching wow-levels in the field of technical achievement one must ask, how powerful is the PSP and will it eventually overtake the PS2 in its ability to output technical masterpieces?
We’ve seen a steadily increase of technical achievements on the PSP. Daxter could be seen as one of the first that tried to push the system to its limits and Daxter has been challenged by games like GTA III: Liberty Stories, God of War: Chains of Olympus and most recently Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core; each being able to squeeze little more juice than the previous. When comparing some of these titles to predecessors on the PS2 (original God of War for example) the main complaint is that there is less. Less game-play, game-time, weapons, etc. This is the main problem with technical progress on the PSP and that is fitting everything on that tiny UMD disc.
To have a look at the nitty, gritty technical specs of the PSP vs. the PS2 we find that the CPU of the PSP is 33MHZ faster than the PS2 but this is not all we must concern ourselves with. The hardware designed specifically to deal with graphical calculations on the PS2 is split into three parts, making for the ability to run in “parallel” and therefore theoretically faster than the PSP. The other major comparison is storage space. The PS2 uses DVDs which hold 5ish gigs, whereas the UMD discs only hold 1.4. I’ve also heard that the time that it takes to extract data from the discs into a running game is a lot slower with UMD than DVD. Personally I would say that doing the same thing the PS2 would usually prevail, however the trick here is that the size of the PSP screen is a lot smaller than that of your average T.V. that you run a PS2 from and because of that; textures and models in the game require less detail.
The storage issue may become irrelevant in the future as SD-Memory cards storage space is continuing to get bigger or game developers may move to multiple UMDs to offer a better experience. As it stands at the moment the biggest problem is storage and until that problem is resolved we’ll continue to hear reviews complain that there could have been just that little bit more content.
2007reda @ 2008-05-27 20:24:15
SOO GOOD MAN TH
corporel @ 2008-05-28 09:28:13
Lol I only get the half of it :D
All the people with technological blogs.. :P
I hope I can talk with ya in the future, cause im learning , but now I dont get a word of what you are typing :P
But Cya :D
mishaelismael @ 2008-05-23 16:28:42
hello nothing
