Super-charged PSP offers better performance
Category: Sony PSP, Posted: 12/13/2007 at 12:51PM CST by Frank Ling, Editorial Director
Wired is reporting that Sony has taken off the wraps of its PSP and is allowing developers to overclock the handheld gaming console from 222mhz to 333mhz.
So far, it looks like there are improvements in the graphics and overall performance.
A test case was put together using next year's big title for the PSP, God of War: Chains of Olympus and the developer, Ready at Dawn, had its lead programming director explain the changes and differences while running the game at the old processor speed and the faster 333mhz clock rate.
The idea of a more powerful PSP will up the ante as far as giving developers more options in improving game play and graphics, but as it is with overclocking PCs, doing so means using more energy.
For the PC user, this is a negligible issue, but for the PSP user that is away from an electrical outlet and is mobile, the battery life of the PSP could be cut quite drastically.
[via ripten]
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pfft.... after i just bought one. I could see them releasing an entirely new model now.
I couldn't see them releasing a new model (maybe in 16 months though but that'd be normal), it'll only really benefit games and that would be on the developers side, say when you do put in God of War it'll automatically overclock your PSP to 333Mhz, or at least give you an option to if you wanted to conserve battery life.
The blood and shadows look pretty nice!!!
I hate gamevideos.com! "buffer now, play later" -someone
I don't think the upgrades were worth the trade-off. Great, the PSP will be like a computer now.
Well GoW looks nice but I just hope psp users won't need to carry around a pound of copper with a fan attached to it now.
hmm, i have been able to overclock and under clcok my psp for almost 2 years now. I always have it at 333 mhz.
weird eh?