Posts with tag xbox 360
Posted May 23rd 2007 11:00PM by Steven Bailey
Filed under: Exit
IGN is reporting that Exit will be making the leap from small screen to big screen. No, it's not getting a movie made of it, but it is becoming an Xbox Live Arcade title. For those who haven't played Exit, it has you take control of Mr. ESC as he guides civilians from burning buildings, and other deadly situations. The Xbox 360 version will also feature new levels not found in the PSP title. There is no word on whether the XBLA Exit will be a port of the first game, it's sequel, or a mixture of both. For those interested, it will retail for $10, and be out in Japan this summer.
Lumines previously made the jump from PSP to Xbox 360, so this move isn't unprecedented. This just goes to show that the PSP isn't the only system getting another console's ports.
[Via Joystiq]
Posted Mar 6th 2007 4:00PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News
The PSP puzzler
Every Extend Extra was plenty extreme as-is: but that's not stopping Mizuguchi-san and his Q? Entertainment cohorts from amping up the game in an XBLA follow-up to this oft-neglected puzzler/shooter. This is not the first time that one of Q? Entertainment's PSP titles has jumped ship to Microsoft's home console:
Lumines released on the digital distribution platform, fueling an incredible controversy over the value of
microtransactions.
Considering the game's lackluster sales performance on Sony's handheld, it shouldn't come as surprising that the game would move to another platform. The game joins an increasingly growing list of once-exclusive titles that have moved on:
Tekken: Dark Resurrection and
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories being just a few notable examples.
Joystiq Gallery: Every Extend Extra Extreme (E4)
Posted Feb 17th 2007 2:45PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News
1UP asked Shane Kim, Microsoft Corporate VP, about the possibility of Microsoft games appearing on handhelds. His answer? "We do it today. We don't publish those titles directly ourselves, we are creating intellectual property that have great appeal to customers of handheld devices. Whether you're talking about mobile or the DS --
you probably won't see it on the PSP, though."
Why the Nintendo love? Well, Microsoft wants to target the kids that seem to shy away from Xbox's older demographic. Get those kids hooked on their properties on the DS, and then hope to reel them over to the 360: "Nintendo's fine. Particularly when you talk about some of our titles from Rare. A
Kameo or a
Viva Pinata on a DS makes a lot of sense in a lot of ways from a franchise perspective."
However, wouldn't one of Microsoft's more mature properties, like
Halo, fare better on a handheld that not only has better tech, but has an audience that would be interested in such a product? Unless Microsoft has handheld ambitions of their own ...
Posted Feb 8th 2007 11:00AM by Steven Bailey
Filed under: Downloads, Fan Stuff
Every week PSP Fanboy brings you a great new podcast that you can use your PSP's RSS feature to subscribe to. We uncreatively called the feature RSS this!
It's time for a little shameless inner-joystiq self promotion. This week we're going to recommend you listen to Xbox 360 Fanboy's very own fancast. Every week the fancast will keep you up to date on all the happenings in the world of Xbox. Hosted by Richard Mitchell, Dustin Burg and David Dreger, the fancast features site news, Xbox developments, listener mail and also questions for listeners to ponder. As with any good podcast, there's humor mixed in with all the information and even if this was your only source for Xbox 360 news, it'd really be all you need.
While you may not own an Xbox 360 now, you'll probably own one eventually, so listen in. If you want to add the Xbox 360 Fanboy Fancast to your PSP's RSS, just bring up this site with your PSP through our mobile version at m.pspfanboy.com and click on this link: http://podcasts.xbox360fanboy.com/rss.xml Then you can exit your web browser and the show should be in your RSS channels. From there you can set a timer for auto-download of episodes, or stream them and save them to a memory stick.
Got something you have RSS'd and would like us to feature? Just let us know in the comments, or let other readers know what you think of the Xbox 360 Fanboy Fancast.
Posted Dec 4th 2006 4:45PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News, Sonic
Sega will be running a pricey viral ad campaign through Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger to promote its upcoming games:
Sonic Rivals on the PSP and
Sonic the Hedgehog on Xbox 360. One may notice that the PLAYSTATION 3 version of
Sonic the Hedgehog is not mentioned. Just like Sonic and Silver pictured above, Sony and Microsoft are fierce rivals, and it appears that Microsoft wants no part in promoting Sony's next-gen platform. Of course, without a handheld gaming device from the Xbox folks (for now), it seems Redmond's empire is willing to litter your IM-ing experience with ads for the PSP
Sonic.
Expect a full review of
Sonic Rivals and a giveaway soon.
[Via
Brand Republic]
Posted Nov 27th 2006 2:30PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News
Mercury News has some fighting words from Microsoft's Robbie Bach. The President of E&C goes on record saying that Sony is unable to successfully compete in the upcoming generation as Sony must focus its efforts across three platforms: PS2, PS3 and PSP. "I think Sony, frankly, suffers a little bit from this problem, which is they're spread really thin across all these areas. And trying to do PSP, competing with Nintendo, PSP to DS; competing with us, 360 to PS3, I think it does strain -- it would naturally strain any organization."
It's interesting to point out that Microsoft, a company with quite possibly the largest monetary battle chest in the world, has avoided the handheld market, simply because the battle against Nintendo would be too resource-draining. While two-front wars have never been too successful, the consumers should feel comfortable in knowing that at least Sony puts dedication behind its products, unlike Microsoft. I'm confident that Sony will support the PSP for years to come, just like they have with the PS2. And that's something millions of currently abandoned original Xbox consoles can't vouch for.
[Via
GameDaily]
Posted Oct 24th 2006 7:45PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News, Lumines
Do we have a grudge against the Xbox 360 version of
Lumines? Well,
probably. Gamers were shocked to discover that the game they had purchased for $15 was merely
a glorified demo: it would cost another $7.50 to get the "Advance Pack," which includes 22 more skins. Throw in the Artist, Mission and VS CPU Packs, and you're already paying more than you would for the PSP version of the game. Oh, and you're still getting
less than was the PSP version offers: "all the skins in
Lumines Live will be in
Lumines II - plus
more" (emphasis added). According to
Siliconera, there will be 60 skins in
Lumines II, which outnumbers
Live's number of skins by a whopping 26. No matter how you look at it,
Lumines Live is a
total rip-off.
Posted Sep 15th 2006 7:39PM by Chris Powell
Filed under: News
Well, look how the mighty have fallen. The Nintendo DS Lite, which is the PSP's biggest competitor, saw a 50-percent decline in hardware sales last week. Never mind sales numbers ... who cares about those anyway? It's all about percentages, baby.
The PSP surged on with a six-percent jump in sales that can most likely be attributed to
Tales of Phantasia Full Voice Edition's total domination in the software sales chart.
- DS Lite: 113,831
115,108 (50.28%)
- PSP: 29,141
1,642 (5.97%)
- PS2: 19,882
2,821 (12.43%)
- GBA SP: 2,104
647 (23.52%)
- Game Boy Micro: 1,801
10 (0.56%)
- Xbox 360: 1,094
156 (12.48%)
- DS Phat: 1,058
738 (230.63%)
- Gamecube: 696
159 (18.60%)
- GBA: 13
9 (40.91%)
- Xbox: 5
5 (infinite%)
- Wii: 0
0 (0%)
The PSP needs to keep looking in its rear-view mirror, however, because the DS Phat also saw a big spike in its percentages with a whopping 230-percent increase. But, I expect this to be short lived due to its "teh suck."
Also, look at how crappy the Wii is selling. Hah hah, it's being outsold by the original Xbox and hasn't even sold a single unit! Those percentages look pretty bad.
(Via
Joystiq)
Posted Sep 8th 2006 5:00PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News, Rainbow Six
The
Xbox 360 Fanboys have been having a lot of fun talking about their beloved
Rainbow Six: Vegas ever since E3 this year. Well, it looks like we join in on the party. While the game certainly won't look as graphically marvelous as the Xbox 360 version, the portable version seems to be filled with features that'll (hopefully) make it worthwhile. The PSP version will get its own parallel story, and will feature single and multiplayer (Infrastructure!) gameplay. The PSP version will also have a "Terrorist Hunt" mode which is a
Duck Hunt modification mode where players start at different points in a single player map and kill terrorists one-by-one.
The game will stealthily launch on the system in November. Crazy, huh?
[Via
IGN]
Posted Sep 6th 2006 10:00PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News
Need ammunition for the strange
YouTube video flame war building between
PSP Fanboy and
DS Fanboy? Well, here's one for you guys: CNET's constantly updated "
top 10 must-haves"
still has your beloved handheld on the list. The PSP joins other gadgets, such as the incredible
Motorola Q, Toshiba
Gigabeat S, the
Slingbox, the
Xbox 360 and Canon
PowerShot S80. Here's what the CNET folks had to say:
"The Sony PlayStation Portable was the portable gadget of 2005. If you haven't gotten yet, you must not have seen one in action. The screen alone will make you salivate. So much more than a portable gaming console, it also plays music and movies. Not only does it look hot, it also has outstanding sound and graphics, a built-in Memory Stick Duo slot, and Wi-Fi."
You get a lot of bang for your buck with the PSP. Considering how the PSP costs only $200, that's a lot cheaper than most of the items on this acclaimed list.
[Via
1UP Boards]
Posted Sep 2nd 2006 3:00PM by Chris Powell
Filed under: News
Well if this week was going bad for the PSP, in terms of sales figures, it just got much worse as the new hardware sales numbers rolled in.
- DS Lite: 163,274
88,779 (119.17%)
- PSP: 29,945
11,590 (27.90%)
- PS2: 21,829
5,004 (18.65%)
- GBA SP: 2,719
1,104 (28.88%)
- Game Boy Micro: 1,819
447 (19.73%)
- Xbox 360: 1,197
296 (19.83%)
- Gamecube: 837
85 (9.22%)
- DS Phat: 410
302 (42.42%)
- GBA: 14
6 (30.00%)
- Xbox: 12
5 (71.43%)
While the DS Lite took a near 120-percent jump, the PSP saw a 28-percent decline. The surge in DS Lite sales can be mostly attributed to the release of
Final Fantasy III, which also took the top spot in the
software sales chart. Square's newest addition to the
Final Fantasy franchise sold more than 500,000 copies in its first week of release.
And do you want to hear even sadder news?
Gundam G Generation Portable recently became the
best one-week selling PSP game ever in Japan by pushing out 150,000 copies. Do you see where I'm going here?
Final Fantasy III outsold the PSP's best-selling game by more than 350,000 copies. Yeesh.
[Source:
Media Create]
Posted Aug 24th 2006 9:00PM by Andrew Yoon
NOTE: This editorial is the opinion of Andrew Yoon, and does not represent the opinion of PSP Fanboy, Joystiq or Weblogs, Inc.
Every video game convention, there's a "winner" of some sorts. It's pretty safe to say that the Nintendo Wii "won" the last E3, proving that waving around our hands
can be fun. Not only did the Wii prove that the control scheme works, there was an amazing list of exclusives, from Nintendo's own
Mario to third party efforts, like
Red Steel. Nintendo wowed the crowd at E3 because of the amazing quality and potential of the games for its system.
Did Nintendo pull the big win at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany this year? No. Did Microsoft? No. Sony took the win for this year's show, but not because of a great showing of PlayStation 3 goods (there were none at the show), but because of Konami's absolutely excellent lineup of upcoming PSP games. Yes, you heard me right: PSP "won" Leipzig.
Continue reading The winner of Leipzig? PSP
Posted Aug 19th 2006 3:15PM by Chris Powell
Filed under: News
Those damn Japanese are at it again with their never-ending obsession with the Nintendo DS Lite.
Last week, it seemed the PSP was possibly staging a comeback, but a surge in DS Lite sales that almost topped 200,000 nipped any thought of that in the bud.
- DS Lite 196,719(19,866)
- PSP: 41,289(1,315)
- PS2: 26,547 (96)
- GBA SP: 3,051(822)
- Gameboy Micro: 2,031(265)
- Xbox 360: 1,204(1,042)
- Gamecube: 940(99)
- DS Phat: 934(596)
- GBA: 23(14)
- Xbox: 6(5)
I'm tired of thinking of reasons to why the DS Lite is handing the PSP its ass. Sony is going to have to do something to turn the momentum back in its favor very quickly, or any thought of winning in Japan will be lost. Maybe Sony can start by getting some
games on its system that will compete with the DS Lite's. Oh well, there's always next week, right?
(Via
PSP Advanced)
Posted Jul 30th 2006 11:25PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News, Lumines
I go on vacation for a day and Xbox 360 Fanboy decides to
trash talk the PSP. According to their somewhat sensational article,
Lumines Live for the Xbox 360 and
Lumines II for the PSP are the same game. They bring up a point that
Lumines Live will be much cheaper than
Lumines II, but I absolutely dare those kids to try lugging their massive Xbox 360 around on the subway. And, let's not forget that they paid $400 for their console, with a power brick the size of a dinosaur.
Ooh... I went there. But in all honesty, does it really matter if something is the "same game" when it involves colored boxes falling from the sky? Don't see
too much need for variety there.
[Thanks,
steve!]
Posted Jul 20th 2006 8:42AM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Fan Stuff
You may remember
chubigans as the compiler of the great
Flash Arcade collection. After reading more on the
death of PSP, he couldn't take the incredible
fanboy flaming that took ablaze on the internet. chubigan's latest blog entry will most likely only fan the fires, but in support of our handheld darling. He makes note of how the PSP has been selling neck-and-neck with the DS (before the introduction of the DS Lite) and how the media capabilities of the PSP make it quite a value-added system. In fact, he uses his Excel
skillz to demonstrate the similarities between a PSP and a 360.
The dearth of console ports, the lack of a singular title that every PSP owner
must buy (except maybe Grand Theft Auto?), and journalistic pessimism fueled by
Sony's arrogance, are all helping to shape PSP's currently negative image. But "
to declare the PSP dead, when sales, developers and sometimes even the website's own review scores declare otherwise...well, it's f-in ridiculous."
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