Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Gran Turismo's PSP Conversion Gets Details, Video

Posted by simoniker on from the zoom-zoom-zoom dept.

jasoncart writes "Sony has confirmed more details on PlayStation & PlayStation 2 killer-app Gran Turismo's upcoming port to the PSP handheld, further underlining the simplicity of PS2 to PSP conversions - series producer Kazunori Yamauchi says: 'Since we're already developing the [Gran Turismo 4]'s system on the PS2 hardware, we're planning to port that directly to the PSP.' IGN PSP has more details from the same interview, and there are also some Japanese shaky-cam videos featuring game footage playing on the PSP, one of the first times the handheld has been seen running in standalone form."

4 of 57 comments (clear)

  1. Anyone else notice? by Stubtify · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Was it just me or did that guy in the video put that UMD disc into the PSP while it was "playing" another game? Would that mean all we're seeing here is a nice tft screen displaying a video feed (which is what I was suspecting all along)?

    1. Re:Anyone else notice? by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Interesting

      "Was it just me or did that guy in the video put that UMD disc into the PSP while it was "playing" another game? Would that mean all we're seeing here is a nice tft screen displaying a video feed (which is what I was suspecting all along)?"

      Just you. But that's been covered in other posts. It's worth adding that since it's optical, the hardware would be able to keep running a program without the disc. If Sony's smart, they didn't build it to auto-reset in that event. Otherwise, how would Square make their multi-disc games? ;)

      --
      "Derp de derp."
    2. Re:Anyone else notice? by Fred+Or+Alive · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It would fit with other Playstation stuff for it not to have an auto-reset. The other Playstations don't.

      It's only the Sega consoles and the Xbox that (usually) auto-reset if you eject a disc.

      --
      10 PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
      20 GOTO 10
  2. wow by zors · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Was anyone else surprised at how good the image quality was on the PSP? I mean, i've heard about how powerful it was and that it's essentially the same as the PS2, etc. but i really hadn't believed it. At first i thought the GBA SP would still reign over the PSP for me, but after seeing this, i'm not so sure. The idea of playing a real console game while i'm walking around is pretty cool.