PSP Remaster Series Announced for PlayStation 3
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EricDiesel
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Oh thank God. I wanted to play Birth By Sleep but didn't want to buy a PSP for it and a handful of other games. This is unexpected and welcome news. Hope this gets well supported.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Is this really a dramatically big deal?
They've already done PSP ports to PS2.
This is just more of the same thing to PS3.
It's not as if all PSP games are going to PS3. It's just a new mandate to port, which they have already done here and there.
They've already done PSP ports to PS2.
This is just more of the same thing to PS3.
It's not as if all PSP games are going to PS3. It's just a new mandate to port, which they have already done here and there.
Professor Beef
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I would rebuy both Dissidia games in a fucking heartbeat if they got remastered.
SpaceDrake
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Also:
Yes, it has to be remembered that while the PSP has very few seven-figure sellers in Japan, it has an absolutely huge number of games that have sold low-mid six-figures, and all of those games have made very tidy profits - more than Garaph shows, even, as I know of at least three titles whose information on Garaph is out of date and inaccurate. This is in stark contrast to the NA or Euro PSP market, where a few games do pretty well and everything else is just a barren, desperate wasteland.
The PSP market is really strong in Japan, and this is a fairly clever (and obvious) way of exporting many of those titles to other markets where the PSP is much weaker. The real question becomes this: how much "remastering" is required for a release? (In other words, how much money do devs have to sink into it?)
Nirolak said:
Yes, it has to be remembered that while the PSP has very few seven-figure sellers in Japan, it has an absolutely huge number of games that have sold low-mid six-figures, and all of those games have made very tidy profits - more than Garaph shows, even, as I know of at least three titles whose information on Garaph is out of date and inaccurate. This is in stark contrast to the NA or Euro PSP market, where a few games do pretty well and everything else is just a barren, desperate wasteland.
The PSP market is really strong in Japan, and this is a fairly clever (and obvious) way of exporting many of those titles to other markets where the PSP is much weaker. The real question becomes this: how much "remastering" is required for a release? (In other words, how much money do devs have to sink into it?)
herzogzwei1989
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I want Ridge Racer, R-Type Tactics/Command and Ultimate Ghosts n Goblins.
BritBloke916
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Vamphuntr said:
I seem to remember something about the art assets actually being created at a resolution higher than the PSP could handle and then scaled down. If so, that decision was probably specifically to make it really easy to offer an HD version (for PS3, NGP and whatever else) using the original assets further down the line, and very easily earn welcome additional revenues.
hebrew hammer
Banned
Why would you want the former? The latter would be a far superior product. If any indication from what has been announced everything will be a port. Hope locoroco, patapon, crush, and resistance retribution. Never owned a psp since it was a shitty product (short battery life bad controls, long load times) at least for meChuck Norris said:
Professor Beef
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Either that, or the state of the PSP in general.Lindsay said:
Thunderbear
Mawio Gawaxy iz da Wheeson hee pways games
This is a massive YAY for me. I hope Square Enix is onboard this train too!
Thunderbear
Mawio Gawaxy iz da Wheeson hee pways games
Lindsay said:
Erm, you must not own a PS3. It's got way more exclusives than the Xbox360 and share the multiplatform games (who only in the beginning were weak ports). Either you're biased or you really don't know the PS3 library.
zomgbbqftw
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Give me Type-0 HD or give me death!
Kurosaki Ichigo
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Wow, didn't expect to wake up to anything like this.
Basically PSP in the West is now officially dead by Sony hands. In the Far East, unknown outcome, could possibly push PS3 a bit, hurting PSP a bit but not killing it altogether.
But I think this is bad overall for Sony, it just kills a major NGP selling point *and* makes users expect a similar treatment to NGP games.
Cool for some lost cause localizations, but it makes me wonder if they are going to screw PSP users releasing just the PS3 remastered titles.
Basically PSP in the West is now officially dead by Sony hands. In the Far East, unknown outcome, could possibly push PS3 a bit, hurting PSP a bit but not killing it altogether.
But I think this is bad overall for Sony, it just kills a major NGP selling point *and* makes users expect a similar treatment to NGP games.
Cool for some lost cause localizations, but it makes me wonder if they are going to screw PSP users releasing just the PS3 remastered titles.
fabricated backlash
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What's the big deal actually? This happened on the PS2 before and it's not like all PSP games are instantly playable on the PS3 in HD. Might be interesting for MH3p though.
arnoldocastillo2003
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AWESOME NEWS, now the PS3 can have the JRPG godness that the PSP has, please SONY give me these games, i will give you a BJ if you give to me on the PS3:
PopoloCrois
Brave Story: New Traveler
Last Ranker
God Eater Burst
That is all, i rest my case.
PS: Oh and Final Fantasy Type-0 please
PopoloCrois
Brave Story: New Traveler
Last Ranker
God Eater Burst
That is all, i rest my case.
PS: Oh and Final Fantasy Type-0 please
kurisub306
Member
Will definitely be getting Peace Walker day one if they change the controls for the dualschock, or better yet, allow me to change the controls how I see fit!
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Kurosaki Ichigo
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Its official now, no need to fake anymore. It was dead in the market for a long time and Sony just pulled the plug. We could call it euthanasia.Nirolak said:
I didn't say very important but it certainly was a point to NGP to play remastered PSP titles (both hits and making those unlikely to be localized a better chance). Now that point is gone, and on top of that the console superior race is reinforced in their belief that the handheld is a lesser race that gets stripped of their hits when necessary and is shoved with half-efforts.
I'm very interested now in the E3 conference to see just how does Sony think of making NGP relevant. Right now they could call it the PS3 portable viewer, strip it of hardware and just make it stream from PS3 to the portable screen.
Wax Free Vanilla
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ps3 exclusive content for mgs peace walker needs to be a playable 3d outer ops mode.
My guess would be that this program exists to help generate interest in sequels for the NGP and let their biggest partners make more money on their PSP titles.Kurosaki Ichigo said:
As you said, this doesn't have much obvious benefit for Sony's handheld ambitions, unless they're getting something in return for doing this.
Callibretto
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I wonder how SE will feel about this for their upcoming FF Type-0. I mean, surely it's gonna hurt their sales a bit because some people will be wanting FF Type-0 remaster series.
I'm also wondering if this is the same as PSP re-releases for NGP news we got when NGP is first announced. it'd be really cool if the PSN version of FF Type-0 will be forward compatible with PS3 and NGP.
I'm also wondering if this is the same as PSP re-releases for NGP news we got when NGP is first announced. it'd be really cool if the PSN version of FF Type-0 will be forward compatible with PS3 and NGP.
arnoldocastillo2003
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Negator said:
My god where do you live, here where i am is 2:45 AM, im in Nicaragua by the way.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I would expect about as much from this as we do from the PS2 remaster series. A game or two here and there.
hebrew hammer
Banned
I don't understand why this would matter since it probably going to be on both ps3 and ngp as psn games. These titles are all 900 mb.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Maybe somewhere in Europe or Africa where its morning?arnoldocastillo2003 said:
I don't think this really changes anything related to the NGP. It was always Sony's plan to have you buy the same game twice so you could play it on the go, bring it home, transfer your save file and play it on the big screen. The only thing that's different now is that the concept will be introduced sooner using the PSP instead of them waiting for the NGP as we had originally been led to believe.Kurosaki Ichigo said:
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
lol!Negator said:
arnoldocastillo2003
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Negator said:
HA! LOL! ok thanks for the explanation.
Callibretto
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I want to know if it's emulation or port. I'm hoping for some enhanced emulation, it'd be cheaper for dev/publisher to release game under this remaster line, so there will be more games under this line. and also because emulation will make it possible for cross compatibility for NGP.
the current ps1 emulation for psp and ps3 is excellent. I want something like that, but with native upscaling to hd.
the current ps1 emulation for psp and ps3 is excellent. I want something like that, but with native upscaling to hd.
SuperAngelo64
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Give me an HD Duodecim with some extra characters and I'll buy a fucking PS3.
The announcement was classic playstation portable titles. Type-0 isn't even out in one continent yet. We don't even know the full quality of Type-0 yet, so how could anyone anticipate a remastering (unless they didn't even want the PSP version in the first place)?Callibretto said:
Besides, its not like the remasters would come day and date with the first release anyway, so it couldn't possibly hurt initial sales or forecasts or any of that.
googleplex
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It would be great is the PSP version came on the blue ray disk.
Graphics Horse
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Luigiv said:
But unless the Blu-Ray version comes with a download PSN code, people will need a THIRD copy to play on the NGP! I really think they should be encouraging people towards downloads so that NGP backwards compatibility becomes a greater selling point.
Callibretto
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FTH said:
I'm hoping/speculating that this psp re-mastered, will be the same as psp re-releases on NGP in this news
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/01/31/umd_ngp_releases/
if it's the same, I sure as hell like the prospect of playing FF Type 0 on NGP with HD graphics, and it will certainly wait for NGP version.