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press start SONY'S POCKET MONSTER Long-awaited PlayStation Portable announced intendo's Game Boy has ruled the handheld market for well over a decade, but that could soon change. At its annual pre-E3 press conference, Sony announced a challenger to the almighty Game Boy: PSP, or PlayStation Portable. Billed as "the Walkman of the 21st cen- tury," the PSP packs an impressive list of features (see sidebar below), including some that may yield nongaming applica- tions. As Ken Kutaragi, designer of the original PlayStation and president and CEO of Sony CEI, told us, "PSP will have a huge potential for delivering other forms of entertainment, as well as live entertain- ment through the network anywhere, any- time." Everything from listening to music to browsing the web to watching movies is a inside the psp TOP SECRET distinct possibility. Sony also hinted that PSP could connect to PS2, perhaps in a manner similar to Nintendo's GC-GBA link. So, is Nintendo shaking in its boots? "We really aren't," says George Harrison, Nintendo's senior VP of marketing. "In some ways, we've been expecting Sony to jump into the portable area since 1989, and for the next couple years (2003- 2004), we're in very good shape. We've always focused on value and keeping Game Boy under $100, so we're anxious to see what price point they establish and the approach they take." As are we. But don't write PSP into your Christmas list just yet, unless you're talkin' next Christmas-it isn't due until the end of 2004, and Sony hasn't announced a price. Display: 4.5-inch widescreen (16:9 ratio) backlit LCD display (GBA SP's is 2.9 inches) Resolution: 480x272 pixels (GBA's is 240x160) Disc medium: UMD (Universal Media Disc) 2.4-inch optical secured ROM disc with cartridge (1.8GB) SONY PSP PlayStation R&D New PSP Design EGM Artist's Rendition DRX-2-65 Drawing ba One thing Sony didn't do when it announced PSP was show us what it looks like so we made this artist's rendition based on the available info. We expect PSP to keep the basic DualShock setup for familiarity's sake (and to facil- itate ports of PS1 and PS2 games). The 2.4-inch disc holds 1.8GB worth of gaming. Video codec: MPEG 4, delivering high-quality video with smaller file sizes. Sony could potentially put full-length movies on a UMD for PSP playback. Graphics: 3D polygons using NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline) rendering to make smoother rounded surfaces Sound: PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) with built-in stereo speakers and stereo headphone output Input/Output: USB 2.0 and a slot for Sony's Memory Stick data storage Battery: Rechargeable lithium-ion (like GBA SP's) Headphone Jack (you see that, Nintendo?) Memory Stick slot USB port Nustrations by Mix Switz

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