Comments on: Nikkei – New DS to release this year with larger screens, music play-back, more

By: ecu

ecu — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:00:47 +0000

WTF. Fastest reply ever.

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:00:10 +0000

Nice! Although Jeanne D’arc combat is horrible, imo

By: ecu

ecu — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:59:16 +0000

Tales of Eternia, Breath of Fire 3, Jeanne D’arc, Riviera, Wild Arms XF, Valkyrie Profile Lenneth, PoPoLoCrois, Final Fantasy I + II, Monster Hunter, Star Ocean First Departure, Star Ocean Second Story. Plus about 4 times as many if you have CFW.

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:09:06 +0000

Yeah but I’m looking for more tradition (J)RPGs with traditional turn-based or real-time combat. Apart from Crisis Core, is there anything?

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:05:12 +0000

Disgaea’s good. I managed to wipe my save game after 10 hours, though. That wasn’t so good.

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:54:55 +0000

I’d love some PSP RPGs. What ones are there that aren’t FF Tactics?

By: ecu

ecu — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:51:39 +0000

It’s a good RPG platform, I find. PSP itself has a fair few good RPG’s released on it, but it can also play SNES and PS1 RPGs if you have CFW. Mine gets a ridiculous amount of play because of this.

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:10:04 +0000

I never, ever use mine.

By: mortiferus

mortiferus — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:51:39 +0000

@ ecu

Two words: iPhone, Android. I sold my PSP a while back and though I miss wipeout, I made the right choice it is a stagnant platform.

By: mortiferus

mortiferus — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:39:47 +0000

@ Gamoc.

Dude, SEGA poured on just as much if not more support for the GG, yet the division folded like an accordion when they realized that though superior technically the Game Gear would never get the third party nor the financial support needed to grow the platform.

For every 1 good game on PSP, there are 5 for the DS. And that is just first party. PSP 3000 might be the last revision… ever. “Search your feelings, you know this to be true.”

By: ecu

ecu — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:32:09 +0000

PSP is still selling well, but it’s not doing well as a games machine. Sony won’t ditch it because it’s still doing well as a multimedia device and the units are shifting.

By: Gamoc

Gamoc — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:18:28 +0000

No, it’s not, Sony won’t let that happen. Plus, it’s a superb system, either way. I’ll still use mine.

By: mortiferus

mortiferus — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:19:48 +0000

PSP is a year away from going the way of the Game Gear.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:26:57 +0000

@Gamoc – this was in Hong Kong not here. They even sell R4 cards in the bigger shopping malls – very easy to get hold of.

By: absolutezero

absolutezero — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:25:39 +0000

Not the vast majority no. A higher percentage than PSP owners who have cracked PSPs? Yes.

By: Big Stu

Big Stu — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:10:09 +0000

I wouldn’t go as far as to call it a vast majority of the DS owning public have them, but a huge number of the gaming community definitely do.

By: Gamoc

Gamoc — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:57:10 +0000

The vast majority of people with DSs are using R4 cards?

You really think so?

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:49:46 +0000

This sounds more like a concessions to what the R4 card provides rather than the PSP. Music playback, use of SD cards to play a catalogue of games from (though it’s not clear what the SD support above will entail).

When I was in Hong Kong last year there were lots of people about with both machines on the underground. Though the demographic for the PSP was very much young male. A wider demographic for the DS – but the vast majority of the people with DS’s were using R4 cards.

By: absolutezero

absolutezero — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:42:23 +0000

Im pretty sure more people own DS + R4 than own cracked PSPs.

The reason no PSP games sell is because most of them are utter shit. Now because they are shit none sell, then other developers use the not selling any games as an excuse not to invest in making good games.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:35:01 +0000

Funny really… two Nintendo DS in my household and I don’t own an R4 or equivalent for either of them.

That said, I haven’t used mine for about a year anyway so I’m not sure it matters.

By: morriss

morriss — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:29:18 +0000

I reckon you are.

By: Gamoc

Gamoc — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:21:38 +0000

Oh please, I know at least two people who haven’t got their PSPs cracked. My girlfriend and I. I don’t know anyone else who owns a PSP, except two guys online, one of which is cracked.

Also, I bought 5 PSP games a month ago, and my girlfriend bought 3. I could quite easily crack my PSP and hers, but we don’t want to. I find it hard to believe we’re the only people who do this.

By: patlike

patlike — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:04:04 +0000

I reckon this is legit. Be very surprised if it isn’t, anyway.

By: David

David — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:37:45 +0000

most people I know don’t buy DS games they just use there r4 and download games. So piracy is riff with both handhelds

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:06:45 +0000

Well, it’s either that or people aren’t buying them as games machines on the whole.

By: ecu

ecu — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:04:49 +0000

PSP games are not selling at all, anywhere. I can’t help but feel piracy is very much responsible for that.

By: Gamoc

Gamoc — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:37:29 +0000

Agreed with the piracy thing. I love the PSP, it’s a superb system, but damn piracy has screwed that up slightly. Sure, it’s probably not quite as rampant as is generally believed, but it’s definitely still there and developers don’t like that.

By: ecu

ecu — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:08:19 +0000

It was never going to catch the DS though. I don’t think it has to, but I think piracy really has ruined the machine.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:36:40 +0000

Yeah, I meant more in terms of ever catching the DS again.

By: ecu

ecu — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:27:03 +0000

PSP is still selling well though, isn’t it?