PSP.....

When and where can I pre-order?

Kingdom Hearts 2 Game Screens (PS2)

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories Game Screens (GBA)

Bah.. MOST of those KH2 shots have been around for a year now.. but these are much cleaner and higher res.

Dear Rare,

Please show me a Banjo-Kazooie game for XBox, preferably one includes the two N64 titles in some form.

Thanks in advance.

Too bad none of the DS games look like anything Nintendo should be proud to put their name on (Come on, a deathmatch Metroid using a touchscreen?). Except maybe Mario Kart, unless you have to use a stylus to control that too.

Since they're going to have 3D games on these new handhelds, I really hope they add an analog control of some sort to them. Aside from Tony Hawk and others like it, these games aren't going to be as good with a D-pad. A stick wouldn't work, so how about something like the sliding control on the NES Max? I don't know if I'll get a PSP since it has that broken-up D-pad that I hate, and unlike with the console, you can't use an alternate controller.

Also, it would be nice if the bottom screen on the DS was vertically oriented so that you could play vertical shooters and stuff like Pac-Man full-screen on it.

Damn Sega and their crappy announcement. I wanted Shenmue 3.

sounds like you can even surf the web with the PSP and has GPS!!! NIIIIICE!!!

what did they announce?

X-Men Legends looks awesome.

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/510/510731p1.html

They are helping with that crappy uncopyable Matrix game.

Damn it! I want SHENMUE 3 NOW!!!

grr...I'll take a good Matrix game though

Umm. PSP has an analog stick.

Straight outta Compton.. GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/adventur...s_6097570.html

Alot of potential there for a great rap soundtrack. Please be set in the mid-90's.

I would love to hear some Public Enemy in the game.

Re: PSP -- can we get a *****ing price please? My interest in this thing plummeted last year when the guy from Sony Europe said they weren't going to sell the hardware at a loss and the price would be "close to £200." I want to know whether or not Sony has changed their minds on this since then or if I should just sit on my hands waiting for it to drop to a semi-reasonable price.

Sony did not announce the price. So that right there is reason to worry.

No price and no answer on battery life. I've seen up to 10 hours and as low as 2 1/2. Spinning that disc can't be good though. And will it break like my Sony PDA and 2 PS2's?

Smart money has it that 10 hours refers to music mode (when the screen isn't on and the disc isn't spinning at all, since the files are read off the Memory Stick), 7 hours refers to game mode, and 2 1/2 hours refers to movie mode (when the disc would be spinning pretty much constantly). That sounds reasonable to me although the way the Sony rep waffled on it at the press conference doesn't bolster my confidence much.

I really think the PSP will be $249.99, while the DS qill be $149.99, or $129.99. If Nintendo prices the DS at $99.99, I will be buying two.

Then you can have 4 screens!

Hey what happen to the psp and ds thread? It's gone!!!!

Get me Coffee, I was just wondering that too...hmmm... ANyway, two DS = 4 times the fun! Can't wait to play Mario Kart!

Are you sure? That round thing under the D-pad looks more like a speaker to me. Then again, it's supposed to have built-in stereo speakers, so maybe since there isn't another thing like it on the right side, the sound comes from somewhere else. Maybe it's a microphone?

Bill Gates noticed that his company was no longer in the minds of gamers, and paid someone to hack into the DVDTalk board and delete the thread.

Think about it, the mods never delete the threads, they only lock them. It would have had to been deleted by the OP, but why?

“When Nintendo came down and presented the DS platform to us, … I think everyone was in shock. It was amazing. … Our technical and central technology guys were kind of drooling at the abilities and wanting so much to program and dive into programming for the system. … Nintendo DS, I believe, is a revolution in change for hand-held gaming.”
– Will Kassoy, vice president, global brand management, Activision

“I believe that Square Enix has a promising chance in the platform, since Nintendo DS allows users to experience whole new game play with both its input system and its output system.”
– Yoichi Wada, president and representative director, Square Enix

“The Nintendo dual screen is something that we’re really excited about developing for. It’s very innovative, which is classic Nintendo.”
– Nick Earl, vice president and general manager, Electronic Arts

“The fact that touch panels can be associated with many terms about touching that we never had, such as touch, push, feel, rub, slide and pat is wonderful. … I have been working in this industry for 20 years. During that time I made many games. But I think this is the first time that we have a new input device.”
– Yuji Naka, senior corporate officer, development division, Sega

“Once again Nintendo is taking another leap in the gaming experience for the gamer by providing totally new game-play experiences, developing new gaming habits. Very characteristic of a Nintendo maneuver.”
– Jay Cohen, vice president, publishing, Ubisoft

– more –


Nintendo DS is “a new game machine that will build the future of the game industry. … Our frontier spirit has been awoken.”
– Tsunekazu Ishihara, chairman and CEO, Pokémon

“This has a huge potential. … It is very nice that we can create games using DS that were not even possible before.”
– Yoichi Haraguchi, vice president and executive officer, Namco

“Nintendo has a reputation for doing extraordinary things in the hand-held space. The DS is an extraordinary device, and we are going to do everything in our power to support it.”
– Michael Pole, executive vice president, worldwide studios, Vivendi Universal Games

“Nintendo DS is going to push the hand-held technology to really uncharted territories. By that I mean that it’s going to bring amazing new game mechanics, new game design.”
– Yves Blehaut, senior vice president, Atari

“I think the DS will stimulate the process of game development.”
– Tomofumi Gotsubo, president and CEO, Konami of America

“DS is deceptively amazing. … Touch screen is a very blank canvas for a game designer to be able to design their own input features. … DS really could be a killer to PSP. … I really think the Nintendo DS could kick the crap out of Sony PSP.”
– Kevin Ray, chief technology officer, Majesco

“The wireless capability potentially allows game players to connect wirelessly literally around the world.”
– Brian Farrell, president and CEO, THQ

“I am sure people have nice memory of yelling at a controller. Now, we have a more established function of inputting our voice. … Nintendo always pleasantly surprises us with interesting projects and interesting ideas.”
– Keiji Inafune, producer, Capcom