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PSP Final Specs and Launch Titles

Posted by Zonk on from the don't-fear-the-reaper dept.

Via Joystiq, the official PSP site has the final specs on the U.S. PSP console and its launch titles. And some nice titles they are, including an Ape Escape game, Metal Gear Acid (the card battle game), and one of most of EA's sports franchises. The system releases here in the states on March 24th.

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  1. "Value" pack? by Japong · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You really have to wonder what they're trying to achieve by having a "value pack" - that doesn't include a game! I know Sony is trying to market the movie-playing features of the PSP, but having users gameless after forking out money for the unit seems a bit excessive.

    I doubt many users will watch Spiderman 2 more than once on their machines, and probably then more for novelty than anything. It's two hours of entertainment... for $300+. It's kind of difficult to see the "value" in that.

    1. Re:"Value" pack? by alatesystems · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The "value pack" includes "non-interactive demos". You can read that as "videos of people playing the game". When was the last time you got a console that included a game? I know my last time was the original NES, when I got Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt.

      It's not $300+, it's $249. The normal value pack will not include Spiderman 2; only the first million units will. It is indeed a novelty, and the novelty is intended to gain early adopters, like me.

    2. Re:"Value" pack? by rmarll · · Score: 2, Insightful

      When it was first released it came with nothing.

      Largely because there was nothing worth bundling?

      I kid, Super Smash Brothers: Melee" was a years worth of gaming for anyone, I guess.

    3. Re:"Value" pack? by bozoman42 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      All the more reason that Nintendo *should* have bundled Luigi's Mansion. Oh well.

  2. Games by durtbag · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I have a feeling that the PSP is going to trounce the DS pretty quickly here. I've had a DS since it came out and the game selection is awful. I don't like sports or driving games so that leaves me with Mario, Sims, Robots, Spidey, and a couple puzzlers. Of course there is a huge library of GBA games I can play, but when you shell $150 for the "new hotness" you don't want to play Midway's Arcade Treasures...

    Sony looks like they're throwing more effort into getting games out.

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    1. Re:Games by Fisch2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's easier to develop for the PSP as it's so similar to their console, whereas the DS asks for a totally different approach to make full use of the two screens/touch screen.
      I wonder if the difficulty third party developers are having with developing games for the DS will also happen with the supposedly revolutionary next-gen Nintendo console. If Nintendo is really going to produce a home console as innovative as the DS is compared to other handhelds, the same alienation of developers will probably occur. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

    2. Re:Games by SetupWeasel · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The DS isn't alienating developers, it is just taking them longer to code games, because they can't port existing code as easily.