Sony processor will not be as powerful as the PlayStation 3

Although the title of this post may seem obvious, was not so clear before it becomes official the existence of Sony NGP. Have had to spend 2 months for David Coombes, one of the representatives of SCEA (Sony Computer Entertainment America), recognize that the processing power Toshiba satellite a100 battery of its next handheld will not be comparable to the PlayStation 3 Cell processor. But rather than elegantly, has accused the press of having magnified his words. At a conference held in the framework of the Game Developers Conference, being held these days in San Francisco (USA), David Coombes said:

Some in the press have said "Wow! This ... could be as powerful as PS3. " Well, not going to work at 2 GHz because the battery is different from the Toshiba pa3420u 1brs that would last 5 minutes. And you probably burn your pants.

What short memories some have. And it seems like yesterday when it extended the Sony people hype among developers hinting at hand to power a mastodon.

NGP Sony processor will not be as powerful as the PlayStation 3, but its power is not at all negligible, and there is currently no Toshiba satellite l200 battery on the market like it. However, Sony plans to launch the console not until Christmas could make this claim falls short. Remember that Texas Instruments and Qualcomm are also scheduled to take 4-core processors for handheld devices. But the truth is it will be difficult to see in a product before next year.

Apart from the power of the console, David Coombes spoke about the graphics capabilities, and said with a resolution of 960x544 with anti-aliasing options enabled, it would notice the pixels on the screen. It makes my mouth water just thinking that may be minimally rendimmiento like the technical demo of Uncharted was.

Also revealed that Sony would have 2 models of NPM: a wi-fi only and one with wi-fi and 3G. Note that the model would have the added 3G to embed GPS, which would aim geolocation of users face to offer additional services to the games as "treasure hunts" of virtual items, as longer battery life the same with Canon nb-5h for the users. However, also said the access point triangulation using wi-fi would be reliable enough so that no big differences among users of either model.

In any case, wait until this Christmas we will long, and I fear that Sony's marketing strategy will include a great deal of hype with the electronic products like Toshiba pa3250u 1brs, but by little, until it finally reaches NGP Sony to market.