PSP to Launch with Five Online Titles 48
When the PSP launches in the states, it will be accompanied by five online enabled titles, according to GamesIndustry.biz. Gamers will be able to challenge friends in short range ad-hoc games, but will also be able to compete against other PSP owners via an 'infrastructure' mode. From the article: "What this means, in effect, is that players will be able to connect to wireless hot spots - either at home or in wi-fi enabled public locations - and play games across the net in this manner."
5 titles = about what you'd expect (Score:4, Insightful)
Don't new systems require a killer app at launch?
Re:5 titles = about what you'd expect (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:5 titles = about what you'd expect (Score:2)
I use to occasionally meta moderate and carefully read each moderation. I did it rarely because it took so long.
With this new method, it works so much faster.
Re:5 titles = about what you'd expect (Score:2)
That's the big downside to having a company that doesn't make its own games making the system.
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Re:5 titles = about what you'd expect (Score:3, Interesting)
I can't say I understand the relevance to this compared to my original post. I said it was a downside, not a downfall. Boy I'm sick of these "They were successful, therefore every single move they made was 100% right." fanatical posts. Never mind that Sony has little reason for its users to stay loyal from generation to generation. No no no, we love our PS2 and don't want to he
Re:5 titles = about what you'd expect (Score:2)
Sports games and racing games sell damned well, thought the majority are, at the very least, not creative by "gamer" standards. (Yes, there are exceptions, especially in the racing section, but if you don't know what I mean, you're being willfully contrary.)
But "gamers" are, despite the name, increasing in the minority of "those who play and buy games".
Are you sure that Sony doesn't know which side of the bread their butter is on?
Re:5 titles = about what you'd expect (Score:1)
Re:5 titles = about what you'd expect (Score:1)
The key to online is doing it right (Score:5, Insightful)
Without a good rating system, random punks think they're the best at a game when they really haven't experienced playing against the best. Strategies don't evolve as fast as they do in a good chess rated system. Some games aren't deep and don't have a lot of strategies so they don't want to see their shallowness come to bare. But games that have deep strategies or try to have deep strategy should use a good rating system. As you advance in your rating, you come to witness new strategies which you can learn to beat or assimilate into your own bag of tricks. When you play an online game that doesn't have a good ladder/tournament mode, you never get to see the fully evolved version of combat. You may see someone do something strong here or there, but you don't get to experience strong play consistantly to know what is competitive and what is plain cheese(cheese being a strategy thats really powerful, but easily countered by a good player).
Re:The key to online is doing it right (Score:1)
One strategy systems (Score:2)
I'm not saying Starcraft is bad, I'm just saying that strategy games with different types of units for each side is inheritly fl
Re:The key to online is doing it right (Score:2)
You got ranked in three areas, All time, This Month and This Week. AFter any game you could go visit their website and it would compare the number of times you killed and were killed by an opponent, see how your ratings compare and then adjust accordingly. There was a min/max cap on the amount of points that could be adjusted.
While it still encouraged people to play more, the more games you play the better and better you had to be to raise, or eve
too bad (Score:1)
Great! (Score:2)
What??? You know it's true. If any one of you have played a good game online, you know that eventually they all get overrun with cheats and makes it next to impossible to get a good game in.
Re:Great! (Score:1)
Re:Great! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Great! (Score:1)
Re:Great! (Score:2)
the nice thing about the xbox is that if an exploit is found in multiplayer, the developers are allowed to fix it.
Re:Great! (Score:3, Informative)
Which games? (Score:1)
Temptation (Score:2)
But god damn it if the PSP doesn't look nice. The thought of being able to show off by pulling out what's basically a miniature PS2, with that lovely b
Re:Connecting to hotspots? Does the DS? (Score:2)
Re:Connecting to hotspots? Does the DS? (Score:1)
The PSP sure does online play alot better then the DS (which can't even go online, just local P2P connections).
Re:Connecting to hotspots? Does the DS? (Score:1)
Re:Connecting to hotspots? Does the DS? (Score:2)
Jesus christ, you people just won't quit will you. Welcome to 2001, they want their LOL XBOX IS HUEG joke back.
Re:Connecting to hotspots? Does the DS? (Score:2, Informative)
I own an XBox and a PS2 and the fact that online play for the xbox is built in (unlike in PS2) and is well supported (unlike in GC which has few online games) makes it a way better system then the other two. That doesn't mean it isn't much heavier/bulkier then the other two (especially with the new small version of PS2, though mine is an older one). The weight is something I know all about because I lug it around to play LANed with friends alot.
And anyway, my use of humor doesn'
Re:Connecting to hotspots? Does the DS? (Score:2)
XLink Kai (Score:2, Interesting)
Two Words (Score:3, Informative)
I love my DS, but it's taking quite some time for devs to ramp up development and figure out what to do with all those new controls. The PSP is gorgeous and does standard games well. Add online via wifi, now you've got a hit. All they need is decent support. I'll keep both my PSP and the DS, but I think the PSP is going to be my favorite for the next year or so, provided the battery lasts that long.
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Sony had to do this. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Sony had to do this. (Score:1)
Actually it does, it's called 'Game Sharing' in the main menu
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PSP? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:PSP? (Score:1)
Too good to be true (Score:1)
Last year it emerged that Sony had plans to create a unified PlayStation Portable online service which would allow customers to pay a single subscription fee to access PSP services from any of a wide range of commercial wireless hotspots, but no further details have emerged since.
Yay, a subscription!
Re:Too good to be true (Score:2)
It would be *real nice* if you didn't need a subscription, but I don't think that'll last long.