NVIDIA's Tegra 2 to power upcoming Nintendo DS?

The question of whether one should buy a Nintendo DS or a Sony PSP for a handheld gaming console all boils down to whether you want to play games which offer a lot of eye-candy (in which case go for the Sony PSP) or not (so get a Nintendo DS or DSi instead). But that's just my opinion, and that said opinion of mine is going to go all the way around if a rumor started on Eurogamer's DigitalFoundry blog turns out to be true. It is said that an upcoming model of the Nintendo DS handheld gaming console is set to use NVIDIA's Tegra 2 processor, as it competes directly with the Sony PSP2 when both are released some time in 2010. At this point it sounds like the matter is just pure speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if Tegra 2 does appear in either of the two gaming consoles.

Sources: [Eurogamer, HardOCP]

Sony outs Wi-Fi enabled BDP-S760 and S560 Blu-ray players

If you enjoy your media larger-than-life, then Sony's two new Blu-ray players are sure to have a place in your heart. Launched recently, the Sony BDP-S760 (£340 or about $566 USD) and S560 (£240 or about $400 USD) Blu-ray players both offer Wi-Fi connectivity, allowing for glitch-free enjoyment of online-based BD-Live features that come with most high-def releases nowadays.

They also offer a 6-second Quick Start feature, Dolby True HD audio, headphone jacks with multi-channel sound, and HMDI 1.3. The one thing that sets these two Blu-ray players apart is that the higher-end BDP-S760 has a couple of features called HD Reality Enhancer and Super Bit Mapping functionality.

I don't know about you, but the word "enhancer" has meant nothing to me these past few years, so you decide if it's worth spending the extra cash for. Whichever one you pick, both are already available now. In the UK, at least.

Source: [T3 UK]