Oblivion Headed to PSP & PS3

errorjustin writes "More Pre-E3 news is coming out - Bethesda's 2006 line-up has been revealed, and on the list is are PS3 and PSP ports of Oblivion. Both are currently slated for a November release, which further backs up Sony's insistence that the PS3 will launch in November. A formal announcement is expected in a couple weeks at E3."

Hah!

If Oblivion chugs my AMD Socket 939 2ghz system with a 6800GTX a 1GB of RAM, I can't wait to see what it'll do to a PSP :P

Re:Hah!

Look, if you can't pony up for the dual-core Athlon [amd.com], and the doubled up GeForce 7900 [asus.com], don't take it out on the game developers. Come on out of the stone age, why don'tcha.

I just have no tolerance for people that let their technology sit around for months without upgrading.

xbox360 and ps3?

with Oblivion no longer exclusive to the xbox360, the Console Wars are totally going to be a dogfight. However, they should have done the PS3 version first, so that the xbox version could get parallelized better (and make a better use of the power triple core)...

Oh for gods sakes...

My PSP will potentially run Oblivion better than my current rig. I cry.

Release dates mean nothing

"Both are currently slated for a November release, which further backs up Sony's insistence that the PS3 will launch in November"

Yea, and Oblivion was originally slated for release on the 360 for LAST November, but we all know how that ended up.

PSP Disk Access

I really want to get excited about the idea of Oblivion on a portable console. I've come to a point where I enjoy handheld gaming just as much, and sometimes more, than I do gaming on either my monitor or console. That said, it's really hard to get excited about such a big game being ported to the PSP given that the thing tends to get bogged down by disk access. If it weren't for that issue, I might own one already because, damn, the graphics on the PSP look great. :)

Oh cool

Maybe by the time Oblivion comes out on the PS3 all the bugs will be fixed.

And hey, Oblivion makes perfect sense for the PSP, becuase Oblivion is chock-full of the one thing the PSP really excels at-- load screens!

Anyway, things are looking really, really bad for the 360 on the exclusives front, honestly. The 360 had what looked like an impressive or at least sizable runup of coming games a year ago, but it's now looking like basically everything the 360 has either has a PC release already, is getting a PC release eventually, or is getting a PS3 release eventually. It looks like pretty much all the 360 has left for exclusives is Halo 3 and Gears of War. And as Halo 1 and 2 show us, all we have to do is wait a year or two and Halo 3 will come out on the PC as well. After the number of exclusives which have jumped ship already, the exclusivity of the ones that are left is in serious doubt. For example I wonder how long Gears of War will stay exclusive..?

This is a problem, because the 360 can't fall back on being "the multiplatform games system" as easily this time. Almost none of the really important XBox 1 games were exclusives. But that was okay, because whenever a game came out for multiple systems, the XBox 1 version was invariably the best; so the XBox formed this nice little niche where it had a variety of standout versions of the best games for the PC and PS3 of the time. The 360, though, will be either matched or surpassed in power by the PS3, so the 360 won't have this advantage that the XBox had. The 360 version of [insert game here] will vaguely lag the PS3 version in quality, instead of the other way around. Microsoft has abandoned the niche they held last time. Instead the 360 is basically settling into the niche of, it's the system for the hardcore PC gamer who doesn't want to bother maintaining a PC. I'm certain the 360 will serve this niche very well, but I somehow doubt this is a niche likely to grow much over the next 3-4 years...

Cramming Oblivion onto a PSP

I hope Oblivion on a PSP is hugely reworked to just preserve the essentials (like the Oblivion mobile phone game). Otherwise, mostly due to the excruciatingly slow access times, I view jamming Oblivion into a PSP much as I view cramming a an entire magnum bottle of fine wine up my ass.

Bethesda? November?

With all due respect to Bethesda (Oblivion's the best thing to hit 360), they are quite known for their delays. From the complete Elder Scrolls series, to even Pirates of the Carribean on the standard Xbox; they never make their proposed date, and it's usually months, not weeks before the product sees the light of day. If a PS3 version becomes a reality, my guess is first quarter of 2007 -- oh, and hopefully there will be a PS3 to play it on by that time.

I'll believe it when I see it.

excerpt: The unconfirmed but authentic-looking release list...

translation: gamasutra got played.

News is still unconfirmed

There are so many rumors and people claiming to have proof concerning Oblivion on PS3 that i'll beleive it when i see it...

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/703/703224p1.html [ign.com]

Basically:
"At present we have no announced plans to bring Oblivion to any platforms other than PC or Xbox 360." - Bethesda staff Let's wait before "official" news come in before we get hyped about Oblivion on PS3.

The TFA should say

Fully patched, ready-for-release, version of Oblivion heading to PS3!

Re:Non-Event

It's up a LOT more than any MMO and you aren't being griefed by the admins like in EQ, or the techs, like with WoW. I like that...

Re:Non-Event

There are massive numbers of huge games coming out for the PS3 launch or 'launch window'

Considering how much the game system itself is going to get pushed back, expect that to be a very large "window."

Unless you want to defect over to the Japs, you'd better not be expecting to go home any time soon, Joe!

-Eric

Re:God of War 2

Exactly. It's sort of like the whole debate about whether The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess should have been moved to be a Revolution-only title; by making it a GameCube title, they get something that can be sold to existing GC owners and Revolution owners.

Re:Non-Event

I don't mean this as flamebait but what do you mean by this:

"PC developers appear to have almost zero confidence in the 360."

I don't understand that in the context of either the article or your post.

Re:Bugs?

Sure, about 50% of the people trying to play Oblivion on the PC report problems. (Just read the thread you are in now...and any other source)

But you've heard 'reports' of problems on the Xbox- and there is that one guy with the Orc problem.

So are you saying the 360 version sucks?

Re:Bugs?

50% chance on exit.
100% chance when looking at certain objects while Specular lighting is disabled.
10% chance of freezing indefinitely while loading certain areas.

3% chance to have the quest phase not acknowledged by essential NPC, making it impossible to proceed with the quest. (with the number of quests, and their phases, that's a lot!)
70% chance for friendly NPC to do something terribly dumb during a battle.
5% chance to get kicked out of all guilds whenever fighting near a horse.
1% chance to get stuck inside the rock, wall, etc whenever you knock against it at high speed.
0.3% chance to fall through the floor after a jump.
90% to open any lock with one lockpick, no matter what your character level/skill.
100% chance there won't be any worthwhile loot until you're a character of level 15 with world so full of powerful levelled creatures that you'll have your butt kicked no matter what wonders the chest contains.

The game is easiest to finish for a level 1 character. Then it only gets harder and the more levels you gain, the harder to do anything, bandits you kicked around at level 3 will kill you in matter of seconds at level 20. The only way to get through the game is to pick a heavyweight barbarian and play it as a strictly pure mage, or get a pure mage and use only heavy armour and heavy weapons and no spells... this way you buff up the character and don't level up. If that's not a bug....

Re:God of War 2

Because they want to sell it to more than 3 people.