The story is here. Not much in the way of screens or info but the quotes are pretty impressive. IGN has a screenshot at least of the Death Jr. character.

This is a very impressive quote:
"Polygon for polygon," he claimed, "PSP has more power than PS2," and it's apparently easier to develop for as well. "A huge number of effects that are given to you in software on PS2 are available in hardware on PSP."


Wonder what the battery life will be like!?

4 minutes

Thats not a screen shot, its from the front page of the www.deathjr.com website. I'm still looking for the movie

http://www.gamespot.com/psp/action/deathjr/media.html

Whos got Gamespot Complete?

I have it. The movie looks good - like a first generation PS2 game, think Stretch Panic. The textures weren't detailed but there was some decent shading and some spell effects that were pretty good.

I seem to remember Death Jr. being touted last year for a normal console. Interesting he ended up on the PSP.

So it looks good for a first generation game, and since it's from a smaller developer, things can only look better when Sony, EA and Square/Enix start showing their titles.

Jeremy

jrutz - anyway you can host it?

Consider that this is running on the PSP Software emulator and is not only many times the size it will be on the PSP, but also filmed on a camcorder. Looks pretty good when you consider that.

The game looks completely unremarkable.

You don't need GS Complete to see the movie. Just sign up a for a basic account, if you even have to do that. I'm a basic user and just watched it using streaming, need complete to download though.

My computer doesn't like to stream... always starts clipping. Anyways, found a downloadable link on a better quality vid:

http://zdmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o1/Death_JR/deathjb.zip

Looks pretty sweet for a hand held.

This game looks great. I prefer handhelds to regular consoles, and 3D platformers are far and away my favorite types of games, so this is right up my alley.

looks really cool... color me impressed

while it's not particularly detailed, the lighting effects are pretty impressive.

Is there a picture of what the PSP will look like?

Brian

holy crap, THAT'S from a portable?? That looks as good, if not better, than the graphics produced by the N64. From what I understand, the Game Boy Advanced is basically a SNES packaged in a portable size, correct? Is it even capable of graphics like this?

Wow.. My interest in this thing just went way up.

Thanks for the link!

Not quite - the GBA is supposedly capable of graphics approaching the detail and quality of the PS1... not quite on par with the N64. The PSP is supposedly capable of better graphics than the PS2 which would put it far ahead of the N64 - perhaps near Gamecube quality. That video is evidence of that. I wouldn't be surprised if that game never came out - looked like a tech demo (although, it did look like it could be fun). Nintendo will no doubt come out with something to compete directly with the PSP, however they may sit and wait a bit to try and milk the GBASP for as much as they can first... it does have quite a huge library of games.

It will be revealed at E3.

There are some screens from the Death Jr. game here which looks pretty good. Nice draw distance and texture work. Right now I would say it looks somewhere in between a PS1 and PS2 game. However the game is early and there is clearly potential in this little machine.

More impressive are the tech demos on IGN!! Even through they are a little dark, the character model is pretty incredible and the water is baldur's gate quality.

No, I wouldn't say it will exceed PS2 quality, note the lack of RAM to handle detailed textures. Think more on the lines of a portable Dreamcast and you get the idea. That's more realistic.

Jeremy

lack of Ram? It's supposed to have 32mb just like the PS2 has. Didn't you get the memo?

The Dreamcast looks better then the PS2!

Ah, no must have missed it. I only read the memo on the announced specs:

http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6072659.html

The PSP will run under two 32-bit MIPS R4000 microprocessors, described by SCE president Ken Kutaragi as each having 10 times the clock speed of the PlayStation’s CPU and the same amount of power as the PlayStation 2's CPU. One of the microprocessors will be used as the CPU, and the other will be utilized as an engine dedicated to handling media such as movies and music with its own 2MB of memory. Although the PSP's main memory will be 8MB, Kutaragi commented that it is an extraordinary volume for a handheld game console. In general, all the components used in the PSP are designed for low energy consumption since it is a portable device, and the microprocessors feature a low-voltage (1.2V) design.

The 32MB you commented on refers to a rumor that the RAM will be quadrupled, but it's not officially confirmed.

Jeremy

looks about Dreamcast level to me, which is what was expected.

Video of death jr. is available here

Nintendo better get busy because the movie looks fing awsome for a handheld console.
Way better then I ever thought.
GBA has no 3D games and the FPS they do have look like crap and are not really 3d Doom 1 looks better.
Nintendo will be dumb bringing out the DS if Sony has the PSP ready by this christmas.
When is the PSP coming out?