As far as I know, the GBA doesn't have a 3D graphics processor, so all 3D games have to be done through software. There was a company who had a decent 3D engine, but I don't know if that game ever came out.

The PSP will be out November in Japan and March everywhere else.

It looks like later generation PSOne to me. Dreamcast? Sonic the Hedgehog, a launch title, was way better looking.

You haven't played DC or PS1 in a while, have you?

Yes I have. I owned a bunch of DC titles and PSone was the only console I owned in that generation.

You ever play the DC? Did you see that video?

I own a DC currently. And yes, I did see that video.

After taking into account that:

a)This was filmed with a camcorder from a projector
b)This is not a top game developer

This game looks atleast as good as DC. I am currently playing Toy Commander which is from a relative no one on DC. I can tell you that I can watch that video of Death, Jr. and at some points (the enemy models) the graphics are better than DC. At other points (the moon) it looks like very similar to the DC.

Sony purposely withheld a top game developers demo to be shown at E3. When that comes out, you can compare that game to Sonic.

I think you are preaching to the choir. This portable device looks awesome to me so far. The game just didn't look that great, I'm sure when you get the top developers programming for it, they will make even better looking games.

As I said - I wouldn't be surprised if this game ended up never coming out and was just a tech demo.

If the PSP is really capable of this kind of thing at the US launch, I will definitely be getting one.

Later gen ps1? Let's see. Sonic Adventure, although a 1st gen DC game, could easily pass for a lower end GC game. Just look at the port of Sonic Adventure 2 on GC. It looks pretty similar to Sonic on DC.

This game could definitely pass for a DC game. You could probably even find some games on PS2 that look like this.

I will pass until I see what kind of software is offered, however Sony has def. caught a lot of peoples eyes now.

Looks cool!

Looks like this things has a lot of potential, i'm not too gung ho about the first game though.

Holy Crap!! According to this story the PSP is going to launch way earlier than everyone expected. This summer in the US!!!!! August is only 4 months away! Awesome news since I wanted this before the holidays in December.

Wow!! and they picked a great day to break the story!!!!

I heard its coming out tomorrow!! And it will only cost $499.95!

Aaaaaawwwww man don't tell me I got duped by an April Fool's story!!!

Did you seriously think they would release something in less than 6 months and not even have a single screenshot of the unit itself? Not to mention the amount of advertising and hype that is going to be surrounding the PSP before its release.

No, I just got one today. Gonna go to EB right now and pick it up

Another article on the PSP, from The Register.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/36769.html

Sony talks up PS3
By gamesindustry.biz
Posted: 02/04/2004 at 13:30 GMT
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SCEE president and COO David Reeves has indicated at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo that PSP games will probably be region-free, that PS3 will be intrinsically linked with PSX and may appear in home server and standalone gaming versions, and that Sony may announce a stripped down, PSone-style PlayStation 2 product.

In a revealing interview with the official PlayStation website, Reeves spoke candidly about Sony's hopes and ambitions for its key gaming products, and cleared up a number of issues surrounding each of them.

Most interesting for gamers will be news that "probably [..] games will come out with no regional coding" on the PSP handheld console. Any PSP movies, however, will probably have to remain region protected, even if Hollywood decides to back the UMD format for distribution, although there may be other incentives to buying movies this way. "I think they will come up with quite a few surprises," Reeves said of his colleagues, "so that you'd want to buy a movie on UMD as well as having it on DVD. Maybe."

Reeves further suggested that in addition to a PlayStation 3 "intrinsically linked with PSX", "also there might be a normal PS3 for gamers, who just want to play the movies and have better games." The "home server" version of PlayStation 3, which has "all-singing, all-dancing features with maybe a hard disk drive", could retail for "whatever it might be, €600 or €700" according to Reeves, while the alternative might be for people who "just [want] to pay 200 Euros for a new generation games machine".

Lighting the fuse on SCEA's E3 presentation, Reeves also indicated that PSX and PSP might not be alone on the podium. "Something we haven't talked about, is that we made a change from PlayStation to PSone, so we may, in the course of time, make some cosmetic changes to PlayStation 2 and come out with something that's a little bit sexier, but probably no changes to specs or anything like that."

Unsurprisingly, Reeves came out strongly in defence of the PSP as its own product and not a Game Boy replacement. "It's not, as people have said, a new Game Boy," he said. "There are so many other features that you can add onto it, whether it's GPS or GPRS even."

As for games development: "Emulators are out, and I think dev kits will probably go out in March or April - the full dev kits, with analysers and things like that." Asked about concerns over the PSP's memory allocation, Reeves confirmed "it will have 30MB of RAM, now, which it didn't have before." He also admitted that the PSP concept image we've all seen was just that. "I think it was made of fibreglass or something like that. I honestly don't know if it'll look like that or not."

The Sony Europe boss also commented on the power of the handheld, responding, when asked if it would fit between the two existing Sony formats in terms of power, "That's about where it is," before adding "I think what Phil [Harrison] would say is that people who get an early start - probably someone like Square - will take it beyond PS2."

Looking further ahead, Reeves spoke about Sony's "ultimate goal" for PlayStation 3 - "to get into electronic broadband distribution". By 2006, at which point Reeves says all Sony's current crop of hardware products should be available, the platform holder hopes we'll have always online access and viable broadband distribution. "It's going to have to be 2 or 3MB, something like that," he said. "Ken [Kutaragi]'s even talking about 30MB! And when it gets to that, then it is broadband distribution, and people then can just download whatever game they want. But it's got to be secure, and that's where DNAS [Sony's online security protocol] comes in."


I want to pre-order this thing whenever it becomes available for that, but I'm already worried about having to get some stupid bundle.

Looks pretty sweet for a handheld

If they increased the Ram then this looks like a must buy for me.