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"Question: If Nintendo have been so revolutionary...."

Why is the DS the first handheld they have used a 3D chip in?

Come on it's not like 3D chips are new

Macintosh wrote:
> (laughs out loud)
>
> Since when does playing back an mp3 audio file use loads of CPU
> power? MP3 players have very limited CPU's and are very small - so
> they cant have fans, etc ftted, or overheat. Yet they do the job
> fine, and many do this with just a single AA battery. So much for the
> battery drain....

Woah, ever actually stopped and thought that MP3 players don't have huge screens and a GPU to contend with? MP3 players on their own do exactly what you said, they have that minimilist approach to technology to allow it to serve it's purpose.

When you put it in the context of the PSP however, it has to do many tasks at once like a home computer, thus, battery power is drained.

Oh, I don't know, perhaps its to do with the fact that you need to know what you're listening to, maybe? You know, so when you change track, you can actually see what you're changing too. Yes, let's scroll through 1000 tracks to find the one I want.

Why would you need a screen to listen to MP3s?

Please explain why we're comparing mp3 players with tiny screens that run off of an AA battery, to the PSP which a massive screen, that runs off of a rechargable one?

Go figure.

(laughs out loud)

Since when does playing back an mp3 audio file use loads of CPU power? MP3 players have very limited CPU's and are very small - so they cant have fans, etc ftted, or overheat. Yet they do the job fine, and many do this with just a single AA battery. So much for the battery drain....

Ahahahaha, you seriously have no idea about computers do you?

"No moving parts".

Yeah, sure, the parts that move drain the power right out of it don't they? Have you ever not stopped and thought that playing back a music file uses a lot of CPU power?

I cant see mp3 audio playback using much battery. Especially on memory cards, etc. No moving parts. Current mp3 players dont have issue's with battery life, and many run from a single AA battery.

On the Sony PSP, I can see them using a sort of screen saver mode to cut power to the LCD, and save more battery that way.

No, both ideas are absolute rubbish.

1. Because all handheld speakers/sound processors are rubbish
2. MP3 playback will most likely suck all of the juice out of your battery
3. Storing MP3's on a little SD card is crap, you'd only be able to hold about 60 or so

I wonder how many people will push this idea as "great", even when the PSP can already do it - and thats a "bad thing".

It's on the way for early 2005 in Japan. SD card transformers so GBA (and presumably DS too) can play MP3s and MPEGs.