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Ridge Racers PSP: 3 new movies from Famitsu.com
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Doom_Bringer
Banned
Oh shit, whoever is playing freaking roxx. Did you guys see that move he pulled in the beginning of the third movie?
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Argh, I wish I wasn't at work at the moment so that I could whip up a Cockles style 'welcome to' picture
I, on the other hand, would rather play a game like this on a handheld. Arcadey, twitch games that I play in short bursts, like racers, shooters, and such, are perfect for handhelds, IMO. Even in these small videos, it sounds prety damn awesome with headphones, btw.
Fixed. I'm pretty sure DS will still sell quite a bit more than PSP, despite the great graphics of RR. People just won't buy RR DS anymore. They are gonna buy it for all the other great games. I know it's hard to accept for some people that one great game on either of the handhelds doesn't automatically mean the other is doomedWordofGod said:
mumu said:Fixed. I'm pretty sure DS will still sell quite a bit more than PSP, despite the great graphics of RR. People just won't buy RR DS anymore. They are gonna buy it for all the other great games. I know it's hard to accept for some people that one great game on either of the handhelds doesn't automatically mean the other is doomed
You tend to forget that in this country, USA, image is everything. Sony's image is still king and with Sony's marketing Nintendo will not be able to compete. It's like this, and that's the way it is! Nintendo is still my favorite company but you can just tell that Nintendo does not have what it takes anymore to get the mass market gamer anymore. Halo2 proves that.
seismologist
Banned
Word of mouth is stronger than image. The main thing that will propel the DS is when kids figure out that they can use picto chat to goof off in class.
Basically everyone's gonna want one.
Ridge Racer looks "neat". All the nerds will try to show off with it. But it's not the kind of thing that makes you say "OMG I must rush out and spend $200 to have this!". It's more like "Wow that looks expensive...".
Basically everyone's gonna want one.
Ridge Racer looks "neat". All the nerds will try to show off with it. But it's not the kind of thing that makes you say "OMG I must rush out and spend $200 to have this!". It's more like "Wow that looks expensive...".
SolidSnakex
Member
Damage control!
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
seismologist said:
Seeing how Ridge Racers looks, seeing how well cool does the PSP look, seeing it has too WiFi (Infrastructure and Ad-hoc modes are both supported), it has a USB 2.0 port, Memory Stick Pro Duo support (MP3s, ATRAC3+ files, MPEG4 AVC compressed videos, pictures, etc...), etc... you do think "wow, it must be expensive"... then you look at the price-tag "19,800 Yen" and become amazed at how much value Sony was able to put in a console launching at that price.
seismologist
Banned
teiresias said:
The saddest people are everyone who think the DS is dead all of a sudden because of the graphics. I've already seen PSP in person and decided I didn't want one for several reasons. The price doesn't waiver me.
Ridge Racer sure looks nice though
Wow gigadent, you were once a deluded Sega fan, and now a deluded Nintendo one too. First of all, which teacher is gonna let a kid use a Gameboy in class? Even if it looks like a PDA, most electronic devices are banned in classrooms. Second, pictochat is certainly not gonna be the selling point for the system. Matter of fact, I'd bet dollars to donuts it's an underused novelty within a month. Lastly, the price of the system is not $200. You stink of desperation when you keep repeating that mantra. The only price we know of is the Japan one, and that's still ~$185. If SCEA marks it up to $200, it will be the first time they've ever done so. It's almost a rule that Japan pays more than we do. The DS will do fine but IF this handheld gen follows the trends we've seen in the past, the huge graphics disparity is gonna cost the DS big. It'll start with 3rd party software and then eventually stagnation of the base. 10M GC owners know this all too well. PEACE.seismologist said:
seismologist said:
I cannot believe I am defending Sony, but I will for the PSP. GT4 will sell millions of PSP's. Final Fantasy 7 will sell millions of PSP's. Socom PSP will sell millions of PSP's. GTA PSP will sell million and millions of PSP's. The list will go on and on and on.
The best difference I can give is that the DS is regular tv and the PSP is HDTV. Once you see HDTV you will never want to watch anything less the HDTV quality tv shows, sports or movies. That is the effect PSP will have on the mass market not 5 to 12 year olds.
"Somebody fired off some nitrous!" sounds like the culmination of a "Pull my finger!" gag. Glad to see the Ridge Racer series still has the most obnoxious announcers in all racing gaming.
That said, boy howdy does that look some kind of fantastic. I really don't want to have to buy a PSP, but Ridge Racers is doing serious damage to my resolve. I want to be able to play the original Ridge Racer track wherever I go. I'm doomed.
FnordChan
That said, boy howdy does that look some kind of fantastic. I really don't want to have to buy a PSP, but Ridge Racers is doing serious damage to my resolve. I want to be able to play the original Ridge Racer track wherever I go. I'm doomed.
FnordChan
Agent X said:Wow, even COCKLES is impressed with something on a Sony system. This thread needs to be archived!
Seriously, this game looks fabulous.
Always been a big Ridge fan.
The soundtrack is from the gods as well. Cheesy Namco techno returns! We missed you baby. TAKE FUCKING NOTE EA TRAXX!
I'd love to see Sony slip some support (or a third party) for DIVX/XVID in there somewhere with no limits on the memory card sizes. Would be nice to be able to whack in a huge card with a load of MP3s plus a movie or two.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
I would bet that there is going to at least be an app that will be converting videos into PSP's MPEG4 h264 format, if it won't be possible to make some homebrew app that will be playing DivX directly. No limitation on Memory stick size is a given. PSP accepts any Duo Pro card, and I think that for now they go up to 1GB.
Now, if Ridge Racer programmers can only figure out how to make the custom soundtrack support for their game, that would be completely crazy. Technically I don't think anything's stopping them, hell they pretty much have a dedicated processor just for media decoding, so pulling some MP3s from memory strick and playing them during gameply shouldn't be a problem. As someone said, the Ridge Racer for PS1 was probably the first game to offer custom soundtrack (by swapping in the audio CD after the game is loaded) It would be nice if they can keep the tradition
TheGreenGiant
Banned
interest +1
I want a highres video.
I want a highres video.
Doom_Bringer
Banned
IGN has better quality clips
Sony have already backtracked on the 'no mp3' thing, and confirmed that PSP will play mp3s from the memory stick. I'm surprised there is no sonic stage software bundled with the machine.
Assuming it has the player functionality to play movies in that format off the memory stick, it won't be long before you can get PC software to do that. I've tried some of these (h264 movies) on my series 60 phone, at 128kb/s, and they look great (phone is low res though). I'd expect 300-500kbit/s to be plenty for reasonable quality, which is about 400MB for a 2hour movie. Space for two on a 1Gig card
kaching said:Cockles as a PSP fan is a trap, fellas. I think he realizes that his fandom helps doom a console to a distant second place and is hoping it'll work this time around too. Besides, he's just going to piss off DS fans needlessly. Just say no, everyone
:lol :lol
Loved the videos... like the direction they're going... but wow, they succeeded in hiring a worse announcer than in RRV. Pretty soon, Urkel is going to be doing the voice in Ridge Racer games.
At least the dude in RRV had personality -- "He got too close for com-fort" and "These guys aren't rew-keys."
Ah well, I'll be buying it. Now if I can just find a site still doing PSP hardware pre-orders. Silly me, I waited until I had the money for sure instead of just going "hey NCS, put me down!"
At least the dude in RRV had personality -- "He got too close for com-fort" and "These guys aren't rew-keys."
Ah well, I'll be buying it. Now if I can just find a site still doing PSP hardware pre-orders. Silly me, I waited until I had the money for sure instead of just going "hey NCS, put me down!"
Smiles and Cries
Member
I was hoping to say WOW like everyone else but the first movie says "OKAY LETS CHECK THE REPLAY..."
PSP = PS2
so nothing new to get me to buy
I'm not a RR fan
PSP port of GTA:SA please
PSP = PS2
so nothing new to get me to buy
I'm not a RR fan
PSP port of GTA:SA please
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
XS+ said:
How about Horizontal-scrolling shooters
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