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Oblivion Headed to PSP & PS3
errorjustin writes "More Pre-E3 news is coming out - Bethesda's 2006 line-up has been revealed, and on the list is are PS3 and PSP ports of Oblivion. Both are currently slated for a November release, which further backs up Sony's insistence that the PS3 will launch in November. A formal announcement is expected in a couple weeks at E3."
If Oblivion chugs my AMD Socket 939 2ghz system with a 6800GTX a 1GB of RAM, I can't wait to see what it'll do to a PSP :P
with Oblivion no longer exclusive to the xbox360, the Console Wars are totally going to be a dogfight. However, they should have done the PS3 version first, so that the xbox version could get parallelized better (and make a better use of the power triple core)...
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My PSP will potentially run Oblivion better than my current rig. I cry.
The Bigger Question ... when (if ever) will we see a PS3? Delay, Delay, Delay
"Both are currently slated for a November release, which further backs up Sony's insistence that the PS3 will launch in November"
Yea, and Oblivion was originally slated for release on the 360 for LAST November, but we all know how that ended up.
As far as I can tell Oblivion was killer game #2 in MS's bag of tricks. Next up - Halo 3 due out for Dreamcast 360, PS3 and Rev all at once!
It's up a LOT more than any MMO and you aren't being griefed by the admins like in EQ, or the techs, like with WoW. I like that...
I really want to get excited about the idea of Oblivion on a portable console. I've come to a point where I enjoy handheld gaming just as much, and sometimes more, than I do gaming on either my monitor or console. That said, it's really hard to get excited about such a big game being ported to the PSP given that the thing tends to get bogged down by disk access. If it weren't for that issue, I might own one already because, damn, the graphics on the PSP look great. :)
Horrible loading times.
Considering how much the game system itself is going to get pushed back, expect that to be a very large "window."
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Maybe by the time Oblivion comes out on the PS3 all the bugs will be fixed.
And hey, Oblivion makes perfect sense for the PSP, becuase Oblivion is chock-full of the one thing the PSP really excels at-- load screens!
Anyway, things are looking really, really bad for the 360 on the exclusives front, honestly. The 360 had what looked like an impressive or at least sizable runup of coming games a year ago, but it's now looking like basically everything the 360 has either has a PC release already, is getting a PC release eventually, or is getting a PS3 release eventually. It looks like pretty much all the 360 has left for exclusives is Halo 3 and Gears of War. And as Halo 1 and 2 show us, all we have to do is wait a year or two and Halo 3 will come out on the PC as well. After the number of exclusives which have jumped ship already, the exclusivity of the ones that are left is in serious doubt. For example I wonder how long Gears of War will stay exclusive..?
This is a problem, because the 360 can't fall back on being "the multiplatform games system" as easily this time. Almost none of the really important XBox 1 games were exclusives. But that was okay, because whenever a game came out for multiple systems, the XBox 1 version was invariably the best; so the XBox formed this nice little niche where it had a variety of standout versions of the best games for the PC and PS3 of the time. The 360, though, will be either matched or surpassed in power by the PS3, so the 360 won't have this advantage that the XBox had. The 360 version of [insert game here] will vaguely lag the PS3 version in quality, instead of the other way around. Microsoft has abandoned the niche they held last time. Instead the 360 is basically settling into the niche of, it's the system for the hardcore PC gamer who doesn't want to bother maintaining a PC. I'm certain the 360 will serve this niche very well, but I somehow doubt this is a niche likely to grow much over the next 3-4 years...
If they can lower the specs enough to make it run on the PSP, WTF are they thinking NOT putting it on the Revolution. Everything about Oblivion (other than the HD graphics) just SCREAMS "PUT ME ON REVOLUTION!!!"
Perhaps slightly OT, but I find it interesting that God of War 2, which will be one of the biggest games of whatever year it's released in, is slated for February of 2007...that's a good four months after the launch of the PS3. So why, then is God of War 2 a Playstation 2 title? Wouldn't it have been better to put it on the PS3?
You must have something wrong...I run Oblivion on a 939 3000+ with a 256 meg 6800 with a gig of ram at 1280 x 1024 and it runs like a charm. I work in a computer repair center and have for the last 11 years. Most of the time when a game runs poorly on a system that it should run fine on. It's alot of crap running in the background. If you have more than 3-4 icons down in the bottom right hand side, next to your clock you've got too many. (and they should be things like a speaker icon, not messagers or hp allinone helper programs) I also my wireless card also...Oblivion it's networkable to why waste the resorces?
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You laugh, but I'm running Oblivion on an A64 X2 4400+ w/ 2GB PC3200 and 2 GTX 7800s and framerates will occasionally "chunk out" when loading areas in the wilderness or opening a particularly stuffed chest.
Granted, I've got everything maxed except for HDR is turned off and only running 2X FSAA but still...
No bugs on the PC, except for the 50% chance of the process crashing out when I exit the game.
What problems are the 360 guys having with Oblivion (other than no dev console/construction kit/ free mods)? Hadn't heard of any yet...
I hope Oblivion on a PSP is hugely reworked to just preserve the essentials (like the Oblivion mobile phone game). Otherwise, mostly due to the excruciatingly slow access times, I view jamming Oblivion into a PSP much as I view cramming a an entire magnum bottle of fine wine up my ass.
Wait a min...You mean to tell me that Oblivion can run just as well on a PSP as an XBOX360?
Surly there has to be some lack of hardware power here?
With all due respect to Bethesda (Oblivion's the best thing to hit 360), they are quite known for their delays. From the complete Elder Scrolls series, to even Pirates of the Carribean on the standard Xbox; they never make their proposed date, and it's usually months, not weeks before the product sees the light of day. If a PS3 version becomes a reality, my guess is first quarter of 2007 -- oh, and hopefully there will be a PS3 to play it on by that time.
I don't mean this as flamebait but what do you mean by this:
"PC developers appear to have almost zero confidence in the 360."
I don't understand that in the context of either the article or your post.
excerpt: The unconfirmed but authentic-looking release list...
translation: gamasutra got played.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/703/703224p1.html
Basically:
"At present we have no announced plans to bring Oblivion to any platforms other than PC or Xbox 360." - Bethesda staff Let's wait before "official" news come in before we get hyped about Oblivion on PS3.
Fully patched, ready-for-release, version of Oblivion heading to PS3!
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but still you'l think that my setup would be able to handle Oblivion without
hurling.
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