19th January 2011, 5:26 PM
GR, it's no point comparing console and portable prices. We expect that.
As for the PSP, well, it was the PSP. There's a reason it couldn't keep up with the DS. I waited until a price drop, which came pretty fast. Now the thing's a much more affordable $150, except for the PSPGo.
As for the PSP2, those rumors are coming from developers who Sony directly told would have a system as powerful as the PS3. Sony often blusters about that sort of thing, but still, it could be a big deal.
ABF, as for power concerns, yes, battery tech just hasn't kept up. Physics is standing in the way. There's a bare minimum power you can "store" without it being dangerous. Even Moore's Law is nearing it's end, as we bump into smaller scales where physics prevents it from shrinking further. Right now, portable devices depend not on improving battery power but on improving power efficiency in things like the incredibly popular (in portables) ARM processor, chosen above all else for it's low power demands. I'm sure that the second model will be far more efficient thanks to better and more consolidated designs.
Trust this, just about every company that bothers with power supplies at all are R&Ding up some sort of amazing new battery tech. There's a race, especially with modern devices being as power hungry as they are, to come up with SOMETHING because whoever does it first will be raking in billions. However, physics ya know? How does it work?
As for the PSP, well, it was the PSP. There's a reason it couldn't keep up with the DS. I waited until a price drop, which came pretty fast. Now the thing's a much more affordable $150, except for the PSPGo.
As for the PSP2, those rumors are coming from developers who Sony directly told would have a system as powerful as the PS3. Sony often blusters about that sort of thing, but still, it could be a big deal.
ABF, as for power concerns, yes, battery tech just hasn't kept up. Physics is standing in the way. There's a bare minimum power you can "store" without it being dangerous. Even Moore's Law is nearing it's end, as we bump into smaller scales where physics prevents it from shrinking further. Right now, portable devices depend not on improving battery power but on improving power efficiency in things like the incredibly popular (in portables) ARM processor, chosen above all else for it's low power demands. I'm sure that the second model will be far more efficient thanks to better and more consolidated designs.
Trust this, just about every company that bothers with power supplies at all are R&Ding up some sort of amazing new battery tech. There's a race, especially with modern devices being as power hungry as they are, to come up with SOMETHING because whoever does it first will be raking in billions. However, physics ya know? How does it work?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)