Sony PSP Overview
Sony has been working on gaming since the launch of first PlayStation in December 1994. SONY tried to bring more and more changes in the console and tried to bring more enhanced gaming experience with each gaming console launched. In December 2004, SONY decided to launch an incredible device in which you can play games any time and anywhere. SONY named this incredible device as Playstation Portable (PSP).
This incredible portable gaming console came in many variants afterwards. But the Basic PSP was unique in its way. Let's get into the details of PSP:
SPECIFICATION
SCREEN SIZE AND DISPLAY
If we talk about the display size of PSP, it has got 4.3 inches of widescreen along with TFT LCD monitor with 16:9 aspect ratio and 480 into 272 resolution. It makes this device very unique and different. The overall display size of this screen is very fine.
PROCESSOR
The performance of the PSP is very fast and smooth. It has got the central processing unit of MIPS R 4000 based 333-MHz. This makes it superfast and you can play any sort of game which compatible with PSP.
GRAPHICS
It has got Graphics sub-system running at 166 MHz on a 512-bit bus with 2 MB of DRAM, rendering 664 million pixels per second and 35 million polygons per second. This makes it very special because all the gamers want better graphics for gaming and they want to have better picture quality on the display side. It has got a graphic engine, which supports directional 23/16 bit colours, clipping, texture mapping and environment protection. It has also got fogging, vertex blending, dithering. All these features make the graphics of games crystal clear.
RAM
It has got the DRAM of 2 Mb, which is very less, but enough to run heavy games in the smart portable gaming console. It's a media processor which makes graphics better.
CONCLUSION
PlayStation Portable has been one of the best innovation. You can install games in it and you can play games by adding small size disc in the back of the PlayStation portable. All in all, the gaming performance of PlayStation portable is excellent, it can play almost all the games of PlayStation. It was such a revolutionary console, but the only problem with it was that its disc was pretty much expensive. We can also say that till date, PSP is still in the market and yet it is played by many old school gamers.