The links where to the powerVR website and IGN for PSP tech specs.

I ask readers when they read this, to think in the context of Daniel’s last reply to me and the article.

Key points-

- If you use the ARM cpu familiarity as an argument, then *you can’t slam the PSP for having a MIPS processor* because it would also benefit from that as tons of game developers are familiar with MIPS due to ps2/ps1/N64
- And yes I said that in the end this point is irrelevant, but I am pointing out that you don’t follow the necessary conclusion on the PSP side using your logic, and you can’t have that both ways
- That the specs of the PSP you posted are incomplete and also factually wrong.
- That the iPhone having better or comparable hardware for games is into question
- Moreover after finding triangle rates and polygon fillrate I would now dare say the PSP is actually BETTER for many types of games than the iPhone *if* we are going to use hardware superiority as a metric (this is a new point)
The triangle rate on the best case for better PowerVR MBX, is 4.45 times the powerVR and 1.10 times in fillrate (and this is a best case).

- That in the end hardware superiority does not equate platform degree of success, at least directly, as Nintendo has shown (but I did discuss hardware superiority as you brought it up in the article)
- That if the mobile games market you refer to is the casual games market that is there, then the PSP and DS don’t have much to worry about.
- That the PSP is getting more sales and more game software developer support in the last years, so support is increasing, not diminishing
- That the PSP has been hardly lackluster at this point- it’s the most successful handheld console after the DS in the DS/PSP generation

There is ample evidence of this from review sites, the “first class” citizen console treatment the PSP gets, the amount of games and so on. Where do you get that the PSP is not doing well, doesn’t have support or such I don’t know.

Please understand this last point does not equal, in any shape or form to “iPod/iPhone will be held back by the PSP”. Completely independent non related points here and I am certainly not saying the one I just quoted, but I await if you think I did, where did I say so.

And I also did mention- that yes, I thin the iPhone/iPod platform is an interesting strategy for games as Apple is playing it, and that I see potential there for sure (and somehow you ignored I said this).

- Ricardo (raist)