Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Philip Gooch Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Portable Playstation at E3 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:53:19 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 86 Message-ID: <38FF6E3F.31F9EB92@easynet.co.uk> References: <38FF30DE.7BAA6F31@easynet.co.uk> <8dnjp5$5rg1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> Reply-To: phil@neuon.com NNTP-Posting-Host: philg.easynet.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------96B56E936DAD3DEF63419D80" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en --------------96B56E936DAD3DEF63419D80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hmm, yeah, it does sound a bit far out. Such a machine would probably run on a rechargeable power pack (like some MiniDisc recorders) rather than AAs. And it would need to be expensive - portable DVD players cost about £700. Still, the GameBoy Color is the biggest-selling console on the planet right now, and maybe Sony want to grab a piece of the action. All this hard drive stuff we're hearing about: XBox and now PS2. It's going to get to the point where you might as well get a PC - by the time you've added on the cost for the hard drive and the modem, there won't be much in it, price-wise. Phil Derek da Silva wrote: > > Rob, George: do you know anything about this? > > > > Goodbye GameBoy Color... > > > > PhilA handheld PlayStation is a nice idea (and great rumour > material) but I'm not sure it'd be feasible. Compatibility > (multi-player etc) would be tricky. The screen would be a big > problem. It'd need to be at least 76,800 pixels just to support > 320*240. Handheld TVs of a similar resolution and a 2.5" screen cost > well over $100 and require 3 or 4 AA batteries. Power consumption. I > think SONY claim around 16 hours with 2 AA batteries for a mid-range > Discman, but we'd need to run a double speed drive, and the PS chipset > and screen as well. SONY would have to subsidise the console to make > it affordable, but users would be able to use their existing > collection of PS games i.e. SONY would have little hope of recovering > their hardware losses in new software sales. Besides all that, sitting > on the train waiting for Driver to load would make me go a bit mental > ;-) Derek The PS2 modem/hard drive rumour is much more interesting ;-) --------------96B56E936DAD3DEF63419D80 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hmm, yeah, it does sound a bit far out. Such a machine would probably run on a rechargeable power pack (like some MiniDisc recorders) rather than AAs. And it would need to be expensive - portable DVD players cost about £700.

Still, the GameBoy Color is the biggest-selling console on the planet right now, and maybe Sony want to grab a piece of the action.

All this hard drive stuff we're hearing about: XBox and now PS2. It's going to get to the point where you might as well get a PC - by the time you've added on the cost for the hard drive and the modem, there won't be much in it, price-wise.

Phil

Derek da Silva wrote:

> Rob, George: do you know anything about this?
>
> Goodbye GameBoy Color...
>
> PhilA handheld PlayStation is a nice idea (and great rumour material) but I'm not sure it'd be feasible.  Compatibility (multi-player etc) would be tricky. The screen would be a big problem.  It'd need to be at least 76,800 pixels just to support 320*240.  Handheld TVs of a similar resolution and a 2.5" screen cost well over $100 and require 3 or 4 AA batteries. Power consumption.  I think SONY claim around 16 hours with 2 AA batteries for a mid-range Discman, but we'd need to run a double speed drive, and the PS chipset and screen as well. SONY would have to subsidise the console to make it affordable, but users would be able to use their existing collection of PS games i.e. SONY would have little hope of recovering their hardware losses in new software sales. Besides all that, sitting on the train waiting for Driver to load would make me go a bit mental ;-) Derek The PS2 modem/hard drive rumour is much more interesting ;-)
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