NGP: Next Generation Portable

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<p>I posted this info on a couple forums last week:</p>

<p>The NGP will probably utilize the 4 cores like this:</p>

<p>1 Core for hypervisor and game OS only. Closed off to developers.
3 Cores for application usage, open to developers.</p>

<p>So in other words, developers will not have access to the kernel and will have to use system calls... But that is the norm these days.</p>

<p>The CPU will probably have:</p>

<p>Minimum of 1.0 GHz
a 512K L2 shared cache
each core will have 32K data cache and 32K Instruction cache
16 32bit general purpose registers (that is double the x86, there are only 8 in the x86)
32 64bit (double precision) floating point registers</p>

<p>Rumored to have 1 GB of ram, not sure about the speed. </p>

<p>Do you think Sony will set up some kind of indie scene like for the iOS and Android and 360 has right now? I really hope so...
Oh... I can't wait for this to get hacked and opened up... I would LOVE to develop for this piece of beauty.</p>

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<p>3DS is better. /thread</p>

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<p>Oh man, not a flame war… Do not start it man.</p>

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<p>The 3Ds is not better, you have to sit in one position to get the 3D to work, which is lame. Its practically the same DS. </p>

<p>The NGP will slaughter all the other portable handheld devices.</p>

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<p>I agree, the NGP over powers Nintendo’s latest consoles hands down. The NGP is targeted toward hardcore gamers that do look for the processing power and ect. Nintendo markets towards casual gamers. Two different audiences. It is like trying to persuade Congressmen and persuading the American public, two different audiences.</p>

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<p>I don’t have time for video games anymore -_-</p>

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<p>LOL me neither, but I still have my hobby of programming…</p>

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<p>I try to play games to releave stress. It always seems to work. The 3DS is like the iPhone, while the NGP is like the PS3/360.</p>

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<p>I haven’t played video games in like a month. I never have time. </p>

<p>NGP looks cool thought. That touch pad is the coolest thing i’ve seen in a while.</p>

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<p>this thing’s gonna be SO SICK bro I can’t wait to get one.
it would be great if sony opened it up to indie developers so people could get homebrew games/apps without having to hack their system. I mean, the psp homebrew scene is still huge, although dying. Imagine if everyone could download homebrew, not just people with custom firmware.</p>