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Sony Entertainment has announced the PSP portable entertainment platform is scheduled for release no later then March 31, 2005. This platform will target early adopters and teens, by utilizing some of the most powerful and fastest hardware for gaming we have ever seen, the PSP may very well take over the mobile gaming market, bad news for Nintendo. The PSP system consists of a 4.5-inch 16:9-format TFT LCD screen with dual microprocessors… Read More

The PSP architecture is powered by a MIPS R4000 CPU core – two of them in fact, with one being designated as the CPU core and another as the “Media Engine”. It's not clear whether these cores will both be accessible by game applications, but if so, the system actually has more raw processing power than the PS2 – which is based on a single modified R5900 CPU, the Emotion Engine. The main PSP CPU will feature… Read More