At the Games Developers Conference, Sony held a panel for their upcoming handheld, the Next Generation Portable. Though a bulk of the discussion was focused on information previously announced last month in Tokyo, we were able to learn more about the device's new flash memory game format, tentatively dubbed NVG Card.
The new format will come in two storage capacities, 2GBs and 4GBs, which Sony says will be used for small and large NGP games, respectively. The smaller card is likely to support more casual titles, while the 4GB card will store more graphically intensive titles, like Uncharted Portable.
Interestingly, the cards themselves will reserve 5- to 10-percent of their total storage space for save data, game patches, and other updates, which will be less taxing to the NGP's internal storage and make continuing progress from one device to another easier.
The 4GB format is a little under half the total disc space used by the average PS3 game, which accounts for just about 9GBs of data.
Interestingly, the cards themselves will reserve 5- to 10-percent of their total storage space for save data, game patches, and other updates, which will be less taxing to the NGP's internal storage and make continuing progress from one device to another easier.
The 4GB format is a little under half the total disc space used by the average PS3 game, which accounts for just about 9GBs of data.
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