Posted Oct 13th 2008 11:20AM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News
While firmware 5.00 was confirmed for Japanese release this week, it appears that America will also follow suit. The big update in 5.00 is the ability to access the PSN and PLAYSTATION Store directly from the PSP. The PC-based Store will be temporarily down in the interim.
While this is great for our Mac-owning friends that weren't able to purchase games in the past, this deal will be far more enticing if it ensured that our weekly PSN updates were slightly more robust than wallpaper downloads. Let's hope that the US can have a downloadable lineup as great as
Japan's.
Posted Oct 9th 2008 1:15PM by Alan Tsang
Filed under: News, Resistance
In addition to the newly announced
PSP Plus, Sony unveiled yet another way for your PSP and PS3 to interact with each other. All you have to do is connect a PSP running
Resistance: Retribution with a PS3 running
Resistance 2. Under
R2's option screen, select "Infect your PSP!" and your PSP will enter "Infection mode."
This "Infection mode" will cause your character in
Retribution, former British Marine James Grayson, to become infected with an alternate mutated form of the Chimera virus Nathan Hale is infected with. You gain a new uniform,
R2 weaponry, additional abilities, access to new Chimera areas, and more. Even the story will be slightly altered -- characters in the story will be aware of your Chimerian infection which will alter their behavior accordingly. For more details,
Andrew has written a hands-on over at Joystiq that you can access right
here.
Source --
Joystiq
Source --
PS.Blog
Posted Oct 9th 2008 2:55AM by PSP Fanboy Staff
Filed under: News, Resistance
The upcoming PSP game will utilize a newly developed technology called "PSP Plus." The feature will allow players of
Resistance Retribution to connect their systems to the PS3 to enable use of PS3 wireless controllers. Using the DualShock will enable dual-analog control in the game. In addition, rumble will be supported. This potential use of connectivity was hinted at in a patent filed
over a year ago.
Other games may be able to potentially utilize PSP Plus -- however, it is currently a
Retribution-only tech. Stay tuned as we reveal the exciting additions connecting PS3's
Resistance 2 and PSP's
Resistance Retribution will bring.
Posted Oct 7th 2008 9:41PM by PSP Fanboy Staff
Filed under: News
Hey PS Fanboy readers! Long time no see! I'm taking a rare opportunity here to talk to you in first-person. I've been off on an Asian excursion -- here, you'll see I visited the Kyoto offices of Q-Games, the team behind the
PixelJunk series.
While we can't say what we saw (not yet!), we wanted to give you a heads-up to our Tokyo Game Show coverage ... which starts in just a few hours! Here's just a slight preview of our coverage plans (all times in Japan time):
Wednesday (10/8)
- SCEA/SCEE cocktail
Last year's cocktail had a few surprise games. What will we find this year?
Thursday (10/9)
- Preview: Capcom
- Hands-on/Interview: Patapon 2
- Hands-on/Interview: LocoRoco 2
- Preview: inFamous
- 12PM - Platinum Games presentation
- Preview: Tecmo
- Preview: Ryu ga Gotoku 3
- 2PM - Koei press conference
- Hands-on: Resistance Retribution
- Interviews: Tecmo
- Interview: Sonic Unleashed, Sega
- 3:30PM - XSEED/Marvelous press conference
Continue reading Welcome to Tokyo Game Show!
Posted Oct 7th 2008 11:00AM by Alan Tsang
Filed under: News
So what does Sony think about the newly announced DSi, the main competitor to Sony's PSP Brite in Japan this holiday season?
We didn't even have to ask -- because Sony's John Koller, director of hardware marketing, approached Gizmodo directly in hopes of discussing their side of the story. Does this new iteration provide enough differentiation from its predecessor? "Nintendo has kind of a history of these [moderate] kinds of updates, and even with DS Lite, there was a lot of discussion, 'Is that enough?' And they seemed to do pretty well there."
How will the DSi fare? "I can see the DSi being successful. The DS lite was obviously very successful. Will DSi do well with [the DS's] demographic? It probably will. Will it be a product that expands their user base [beyond] under 12? I'm not sure." Unfortunately, Koller did not directly address how the DS's hardware refresh compares to the PSP's hardware refresh. But it did seem like Koller was giving a backhanded compliment to Nintendo's handheld -- it will do reasonably well, but you'll only be selling it to children again. How do you guys feel? Do these hardware refreshes matter? Or is it ultimately software that determines the winner?
Posted Oct 6th 2008 10:30AM by Alan Tsang
Filed under: News
Eurogamer got some hands-on time with the PSP Brite (PSP-3000) and spilled some details on the upcoming piece of hardware as well as the firmware installed on it, version 4.20.
In terms of the hardware, they noticed that the screen was significantly brighter; the PSP Brite's highest brightness setting not plugged in to an outlet is noticeably brighter than the PSP Slim & Lite's brightest setting with the PSP plugged in. Unfortunately, they did not test the PSP Brite's performance in the sun, which was something we were looking forward to finding out. The battery life was then tested, and they clocked the PSP Brite's battery life at 5 and a half hours -- exactly the same as its predecessor.
The PSP also came equipped with the latest firmware. Firmware 4.20 appears to bring only minor updates -- there is a new "USB Auto-Connect" feature, which will allow the PSP to automatically enter USB mode at any time (except during gameplay) when it becomes connected. They also noticed a "Flicker Reduction" option, but nothing else noteworthy. For their full preview of the PSP Brite, check out
Eurogamer.
[Thanks, Zach M.!]
Posted Oct 5th 2008 8:00PM by Jem Alexander
Filed under: News
This is the
boxart for the PSP Brite
Limited Edition 4GB memory stick pack. Notice anything interesting? PS3 owners among you might recognise two things. Firstly, the PSN logo, which the PSP has previously not been associated with. Secondly, the screen shows the PSN Store. The
actual PSN store, not the PC-based website. Interesting. That means we should be seeing the direct PSP store before this bundle releases on November 30th. Will we be hearing an announcement regarding the exact release date for the WI-FI based store directly on the PSP soon? With the Tokyo Game Show just around the corner, it's a strong possibility.
Posted Oct 4th 2008 12:00PM by Majed Athab
Filed under: News
There isn't enough ninja on PSP. There aren't enough pirates either, but
Tenchu 4 can't solve that. It can, however, save us from a current lack of stealth kills and rooftop trespasses. Speaking to a
Tenchu 4 rep,
Siliconera got word that the famed neck-snapper would be going to PSP.
Later, they found out that the game was also listed on the OFLC (Australia) as a multiplatform release. Is this all just coincidence or an early leak? We guess the one place to find out would be at TGS starting next week.
Posted Oct 2nd 2008 5:00PM by Alan Tsang
Filed under: News
During the past few weeks the PSP's sales have been
less than ideal, but Sony's portable is still on top in Japan for 2008 ... so far. According the Enterbrain, the PSP has sold 1,583,731 units the first half of the year in the land of the rising sun. The PSP's main competitor, Nintendo's DS, sold 1,314,919 units during that same period. Nintendo's portable is still way ahead of the PSP in terms of lifetime sales though -- 23,484,680 units of the DS were sold versus the PSP's 10,157,757 units sold.
In the software arena,
Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G is in second place with 1,602,386 copies sold. It was beaten by yet another Nintendo product,
Mario Kart Wii, which sold 1,744,387 copies.
With the PSP Brite launching in about two weeks and
DSi launching in a month, the two handhelds' struggle for dominance in Japan will truly begin. Now we gotta ask: who are you rooting for?
Posted Oct 2nd 2008 2:30PM by Majed Athab
Filed under: News
Here's another three new titles set to be shown at this year's Tokyo Game Show. Let's start first with two out of the
three unannounced SCEI games, shall we? Both games are adventure, investigation-type games according to
PSPHyper. They're called
Enkaku Sousa and
Diamond and the Sound of a Gun Shot. The third mystery Sony title is apparently
Resistance: Retribution, which is something we've known about since E3. Not really much mystery there.
The last title we'll mention in this article is Irem's
Disaster Report game for PSP. The company is bringing the series of survival adventure games over to the PSP with
Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 3. The series has come over Stateside before, so this one might turn out to be a title that could make its way over here.
Source 1 -
PSP Hyper
Source 2 -
PSP Hyper
Posted Oct 1st 2008 10:00AM by Majed Athab
Filed under: News
Good morning fellow PSP gamers, there's a new game to read about this morning. It comes from Tecmo -- who haven't released a game on PSP since
Tokobot in 2005. The company's new title is called
Undead Knights, as revealed in this week's issue of Famitsu. Scheduled for release next year, this survival horror title will focus on fighting "hordes of zombies" and -- like most developers working on new PSP titles -- it will include 4-player ad hoc.
[Via
GameKyo]
Posted Oct 1st 2008 8:00AM by Majed Athab
Filed under: News
Back in April we've
heard rumors that the huge PS3 title out in the latter half of this month,
LittleBigPlanet, would be getting its very own PSP title. Today, reader libertine pointed us to a SCEE job listing which refers to a position for "PSP game engine lead" whose job is to oversee "
LittleBigPlanet projects." Whatever could this mean? Can we expect a handheld version of the dream-creation sim or can we expect to see some sort of
LBP PS3-to-PSP integration?
[Thanks libertine!]
Update:
Eurogamer had a chat with Media Molecule's Mark Healy where-in the MM co-founder legitimizes the possibility of
LBP on PSP: "There's definitely scope for a PSP version. We've had discussions and talks, [but] nothing concrete at the moment."
Posted Sep 30th 2008 4:30PM by Majed Athab
Filed under: News
If you regularly read this blog, then the following Namco line-up shouldn't be all that new. Namco is bringing six titles to show; these are namely:
Idolmaster SP Perfect Sun, Idolmaster SP Wandering Star, Idolmaster SP Missing Moon,
Macross Ace Frontier,
Mobile Suit Gundam vs. Gundam and last but not least
Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2.
See what we mean? You've probably heard about all these before in the past few months. There doesn't seem to be any new announcements on the table -- which, we must say, is just fine. Though, it would've been way more exciting if there was some mysterious project being worked on ... something like this morning's unannounced Sony games.
Posted Sep 30th 2008 7:55AM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News
While Sony will be showing off nine unannounced PS3 titles at this year's Tokyo Game Show, they'll be showing off three new games for the PSP. All of the games will be published by SCEI, meaning they'll either be new IPs, or extensions of currently popular Sony franchises.
Some of the known titles to be showcase at TGS this year include
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep,
Dissidia: Final Fantasy,
Patapon 2,
Bleach: Soul Carnival, and
Loco Roco 2. For the complete list (in English), visit
PSP-Hyper.
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