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01-07-2003, 21:57
Sony Announces Playstation Portable
Widescreen, backlit PSP handheld to debut in 2004
At Sonys pre-E3 press conference on May 13, the company shocked the industry with the announcement of a new handheld system to challenge the Game Boy Advance. The new unit, called the PSP (PlayStation Portable), will be released in 2004 in honor of the 10th anniversary of the original PlayStation. Ken Kutaragi, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc., made the announcement himself and dubbed it "The Walkman of the 21th Century."
Commonly referred to as "the father of the PlayStation,"Kutaragi said, "There's a new member of the family, and it's not the PlayStation 3. The baby is still in the incubator, but as the father, i can look in the window and see his face, and he is very cute."
Featuring a widescreen (16:9) backlit 4.5 inch LCD screen with a resolution of 480 X 272 pizels, the PSP will support 3D polygon graphics, 3D curved surfaces, and the MPEG-4 video codec. The machine will use a new disc format called Universal Media Disc (UMD), a prototype of which was shown by Kutaragi during the presentation. The optical, cartridge-encased disc will be 60 millimeters- half the physical size of a DVD but acapable of holding 1.8 GB of data, three times the storage capacity of a CD-ROM.
The entire unit will be built on a single-chip solution, so one processor will control the graphics,sound, and input/output. It will feature built-in stereo speakers, a stereo headphone jack, and a rechargeable Lithium-ion battery. The PSP will also support USB 2.0 for connecting with other PSPs as well as PCs and the PlayStation 2.
Widescreen, backlit PSP handheld to debut in 2004
At Sonys pre-E3 press conference on May 13, the company shocked the industry with the announcement of a new handheld system to challenge the Game Boy Advance. The new unit, called the PSP (PlayStation Portable), will be released in 2004 in honor of the 10th anniversary of the original PlayStation. Ken Kutaragi, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc., made the announcement himself and dubbed it "The Walkman of the 21th Century."
Commonly referred to as "the father of the PlayStation,"Kutaragi said, "There's a new member of the family, and it's not the PlayStation 3. The baby is still in the incubator, but as the father, i can look in the window and see his face, and he is very cute."
Featuring a widescreen (16:9) backlit 4.5 inch LCD screen with a resolution of 480 X 272 pizels, the PSP will support 3D polygon graphics, 3D curved surfaces, and the MPEG-4 video codec. The machine will use a new disc format called Universal Media Disc (UMD), a prototype of which was shown by Kutaragi during the presentation. The optical, cartridge-encased disc will be 60 millimeters- half the physical size of a DVD but acapable of holding 1.8 GB of data, three times the storage capacity of a CD-ROM.
The entire unit will be built on a single-chip solution, so one processor will control the graphics,sound, and input/output. It will feature built-in stereo speakers, a stereo headphone jack, and a rechargeable Lithium-ion battery. The PSP will also support USB 2.0 for connecting with other PSPs as well as PCs and the PlayStation 2.