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EA Hot On PSP, Not Yet On DS As Results Released 34

Posted by simoniker from the two-screens-worse-than-one? dept.
Thanks to GameSpot for its news that Electronic Arts is backing the Sony PSP portable and reserving judgment on Nintendo's DS, as a conference call following the company's Q4 financial results revealed "the publisher has eight to 12 titles in development for Sony's upcoming handheld console, the PSP." However, EA "haven't made any decisions" regarding support of Nintendo's recently revealed dual-screen DS. Yahoo/Reuters also has EA's software/hardware predictions for 2004, with the company expecting "price cuts to $129 from $179 in the United States on the PS2 and the Xbox by this spring, and no later than Labor Day." Elsewhere, 1UP are reporting that EA's first Xbox Live title could be on the way, as they relay an as yet unconfirmed rumor that "three different Battlefield titles are in the works, one each for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC", each online-enabled and "built around a modern warfare setting instead of the historical settings of Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam."
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  • Well duh... (Score:5, Informative)

    by rkischuk ( 463111 ) on Wednesday January 28, 2004 @12:29AM (#8109277)
    The PSP has been announced and out in the open for how long now, 8 months? Meanwhile, the Nintendo DS has been announced for maybe a week now?


    I'm as skeptical as the next guy about the DS, but it's completely obvious that, with an 8 month head start, a publisher's plans for a portable console are going to be much more solid for the PSP than for the DS, that they've just barely been introduced to.

    • The DS was announced to us a week ago, selected developers get early word and SDK's for NextGen devices like the DS,XBOX2,PS3 and the PSP (under NDA's of course) sometimes 2 years before its release (as soon as its greenlighted), how much time do you think it takes to design, manufacture and release a device like this? the DS prototype has been sitting in Nintendo labs for some years now.

      However the public response to the DS has been mostly negative specially compared to the PSP, and thats the reason why
      • The DS was announced to us a week ago, selected developers get early word and SDK's for NextGen devices like the DS,XBOX2,PS3 and the PSP (under NDA's of course) sometimes 2 years before its release (as soon as its greenlighted), how much time do you think it takes to design, manufacture and release a device like this? the DS prototype has been sitting in Nintendo labs for some years now.

        And the PSP was announced to us how long ago? The PS3? Assuming that you're right (and I actually believe you are most
        • Maybe the PSP SDK was released a bit early (although Nintendo has mentioned several times they have been working on a new handheld for at least 5 years) to developers before the DS but definetely not last week

          Is naive to believe that there arent developers for the DS just because is too soon. The real reason is just that developers are as eskeptical as everyone else about the DS

  • So is this modern day version just going to be the retail release of the mod Desert Combat [desertcombat.com]?

  • "three different Battlefield titles are in the works, one each for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC", each online-enabled and "built around a modern warfare setting instead of the historical settings of Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam."

    I don't find it too hard to believe that EA will try to market modern settings in games these days, what with WWII being insanely overdone. But I find it hard to believe that they will try to make three different games, with three different settings. After all, what

    • It would be cool to see some vietnam or even korea era games with the newer engines, as little has been done there. Vietnam's last serious look as a good era was at least a couple of years ago, and I think with graphics as tight as they are now, the foliage and terrain should be impressive.

      While I enjoy these games as much as anyone (CoD, MOH), I do believe that some of the games sensationalize and trivialize what veterans of those portrayed go through. This is why developers need to be serious and make

  • It's very nice and considerate of them to not release games on the DS.

    I wonder if they'll extend the favor to more systems.
  • I'm a PPC fan, and can't wait until my 120E can run MS's OS(*). AFAIC, J2ME's DoA, and while my HP's no PoS, it's too slow to run MAME, much less a DC emu. Anyone else still PO'ed that that platform's RIP?

    (*Apologies to fellow Palm OS fans; you can't abbreviate that further.)

  • Bad headline (Score:2, Insightful)

    by M3wThr33 ( 310489 )
    EA hasn't decided yet. They aren't against it. Don't word the headline to make it seem like they turned it down. It's the negative mantra like this that I don't understand.

    Konami and Namco are for it only because they have some sort of faith in Nintendo like with the Triforce (Besides, Castlevania would work a lot better with the stats and map constantly available). I doubt Nintendo has released all the info on the hardware yet, even to the developers, so showing reserve right now is logical.

    EA supports e
  • Elsewhere, 1UP are reporting that EA's first Xbox Live title could be on the way, as they relay an as yet unconfirmed rumor that "three different Battlefield titles are in the works, one each for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC", each online-enabled and "built around a modern warfare setting instead of the historical settings of Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam."

    Could their decision to throw Battlefield on Xbox Live have anything to do with the fact that a competitor might do it first [gamespot.com] ?
  • ...I think the Xbox version will be Battlefield Grenada.

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